Kesang Tseten’s documentaries have been screened regularly in Nepal and in international film festivals such as the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam, Leipzig, Yamagata, Thessaloniki, Krakow, Viennale, the Margaret Mead. He has been a recipient of grants from Busan, Jan Vrijman Fund and IDFA Bertha Fund, Sundance Documentary Institute, the Asian Cultural Council, and the Finnish Foreign Ministry. His films include the award-winning Who will be a Gurkha (IDFA feature length competition), Trembling Mountain, and a trilogy on Nepali migrant workers in the Gulf States. His films are regular screened in classrooms at educational institutions such as Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Yale University, and Cornell, and he has been Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College and New York University. Tseten’s most recent work are sequels to his earlier films about Nepali migrant workers in the Gulf The Riyalists and A Migrant Speaks, and finally Diversity Plaza, which premiered at DOC NYC, about the Himalayan community in Jackson Heights NY. He wrote the original screenplay for the feature Mukundo, awarded best script, Nepal’s entry to the academy awards, as well as KARMA. He is a graduate of Dr Graham’s School in India, Amherst College and Columbia University in the US.