IMA student and Nepalese writer-director Deepak Rauniyar will showcase his multi award-winning feature film White Sun at the Museum of Modern Art.
Rauniyar’s second feature frames the damage done to Nepalese society by the decade-long civil war between the Maoists and Nepal’s monarchical government.
White Sun was Nepal’s entry for the 90th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign-Language category, and received Interfilm Award at the Venice, the Silver Screen Award for best film at Singapore, the New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize at Palm Springs, and the Audience award, Don Quixote award, and Ecumenical jury award at Fribourg Film Festivals.
Prof. Larry Shore was commissioned to design the exhibit and make a special short video for the Albert Luthuli Museum in Groutville, Kwazulu/Natal, South Africa. The museum is a National Heritage Site 40 miles North of Durban. Last year the museum opened a special exhibit to commemorate Chief Luthuli’s meeting with Senator Robert Kennedy on June 8th, 1966. Chief Luthuli was the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time of the visit he was the banned president of the African National Congress. The exhibit is about the meeting.
