Ariunaa
Tserenpil & Byamba Sakhya
in theOTGO Studio Berlin 2017
Ariunaa
Tserenpil & Byamba Sakhya & OTGO
in theOTGO Studio Berlin 2017
Ariunaa Tserenpil
Цэрэнпилийн Ариунаа
Ariunaa Tserenpil is
the arts, film & media producer of the Guru Media, a Mongolian
based production company with extensive experience in arts
administration, advocacy, international co-productions, festival
management and training opportunities for emerging young filmmakers for
over 20 years. Her career in the arts & film started in 1996 as
line-producer of the internationally acclaimed films "State of Dogs"
(Brosens & Turmunkh) and "Real Men Eat Meat" (Maria von Heland).
Later she was the coordinator and then director (1997 -2002) of the
Arts & Culture Programme of the Mongolian Foundation for Open
Society (Soros Foundation) to promote contemporary arts in transition
society.
In 2002 she has founded the Arts Council of Mongolia, the flagship
organization in supporting arts and served as Executive Director till
2015. During her tenure, she initiated and sustained number of
international film festivals & training opportunities for local
filmmakers including the Interdoc Int’l Documentary Film Festival
(Interdoc 1997-1999), Mini Margaret Mead International Documentary Film
Festival (2009), Easy Meets West – International Film Festival &
Forum (2010) and three editions of the Ulaanbaatar International Film
Festival (UBIFF), the biggest international film gathering in Mongolia.
In 2008 she founded with her husband Byamba Sakhya an independent film
& media production company called Guru Media and produced
internationally acclaimed films like “Passion” & “Remote Control”
by Byamba Sakhya, which were selected at more than 30 well known
international film festivals and won multiple international &
national awards including the New Current Award at Busan IFF 2013,
which was the first prestigious award in the last 30 years of the
Mongolian film history.
Company Profile:
Guru Media is a Mongolian based production company founded in 2008 by
Byamba Sakhya & Ariunaa Tserenpil aims to produce both documentary
and feature films. In 2010 the company produced Passion, documentary by
Byamba Sakhya with support of PanStar Fund by Asian Network of
Documentary, BIFF and supported Visions Sud-Est, Switzerland &
Goteborg IFF Fund. In 2013 Guru Media produced Mongolia-Germany-USA a
feature film co-production named Remote Control by Byamba Sakhya with
support of Prince Clause Fund, Hubert Bals Fund & World Cinema Fund
& Mongolian Government.
At this moment Guru Media is in the development of Bedridden &
Takhilch – two feature films by Byamba Sakhya.
In 2016 Guru Media established UB Film Lab – a project to empower young
independent filmmakers through various training & mentoring
opportunities to nurture talents & sustain their passions in
filmmaking.
