Bigyna Dahal

Bigyna Dahal
Born	Sikkim, India
Nationality	Indian
Education	Sound Design, FTII

Bigyna Dahal (Bigyna Bhushan Dahal) is a sound designer and location sound recordist from Sikkim, India ^[1] who has worked on several Indian films. ^[2] His films have been screened and won awards at several international film festivals including Busan International Film Festival, ^[3] Pingyao International Film Festival in China, ^[4] MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. He has also won best sound design awards at many festivals including Filmfare Award for Best Sound – Marathi and Filmfare OTT Awards. ^[5]

Education and work

He is a graduate of FTII, ^[6] Pune where he specialised in Sound Recording and Sound Design and three of his student films were awarded the National Award in the best short Film category. After finishing studies he moved to Mumbai and has been working on various feature films and documentaries.Busan International Film Festival He is associated with films like Ralang Road, Shahid, Mantra, Peddlers and Asha Jawar Majhe (LABOUR of LOVE) which won the National Award for Best Sound Design in 2015. Bigyna also holds a degree in Physics with Photography from Fergusson college,

Filmography

Year	Language	Title			Film Festivals
2024	Hindi	Jal Tu Jalaal Tu |	Sound Design and Mix	Prateek Vats	MAMI Select: Filmed on iPhone
2023		Toras Husband	Sound Designer		Bushan International Film Festival [7]
		Last Days of Summer	Sound Designer		IFFR [8]
		Which Colour	Sound Designer		IFFR [9]
2022		Nazarband [10]	Sound Designer		Pune International Film Festival
2020	Hindi	Green Blackberries [11]	Sound Designer		Peoples Film Collective
		Eeb Allay Ooo [12] [13]	Sound Designer		Pingyao International Film Festival, China in 2019 Berlin International Film Festival, 2020 Mumbai Film Festival, 2020 (Golden Gateway Award) We Are One: A Global Film Festival [14]
2019	Hindi	Gumnaam Din (Missing Days) [15] [16] [17]	Sound Designer	Ekta Mittal Public Service Broadcasting Trust [18]	Berlin International Film Festival 2020 [19]
		Jaadui Machchhi [20]	Sound Designer	Mira Nair Ektara Collective [21]	7th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2014 BYOFF (Bring Your Own Film Festival), Puri 18th International Children’s Film Festival, Hyderabad, 2014 10th IAWRT Asian Women’s Festival, 2014 IFFON (International Film Festival of Nepal), Kathmandu, 2017
		Life After [22]
		That Cloud Never Left [23]
2019		Agar Wo Desh Banati/ If She Built A Country [24] [25] [26]	Sound Designer, Mixer	Maheen Mirza [27] PSBT [28] [29]	International Documentary and Short-film Festival of Kerala [30]
		Aise Hee [4]
		Anandi Gopal [31] [32] [33]			Pune International FIlm Festival
		At home, walking [34] [35]			Yamagath Documentary Festival
2018		Sona Dhwandi Bhed Te Suchha Pahad [36] (The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain)		Ridham Janve [37]	Dharamshala International Film Festival, 2018 [38] Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2018 [39] International Film Festival Rotterdam [40]
		My name is salt [41]
		Vaishnav Jan Toh [42]
		Nazarband [43]		Mr Mukhopadhyay	Busan International Film Festival [43] [44]
2018	Hindi	Absence [45]		Ekta Mittal	Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2019 Busan International Film Festival 2018 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2019 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2018
2017	Nepali	Ralang Road [46]		Karma Takapa	Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 2017 [47] Jio Mami Film Festival, 2017 [48] Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [49]

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