# Bigyna Dahal

Bigyna Dahal (Bigyna Bhushan Dahal) is a sound designer and location sound recordist from Sikkim, India who has worked on several Indian films. His films have been screened and won awards at several international film festivals including Busan International Film Festival, Pingyao International Film Festival in China,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.

## Education and Work

He is a graduate of FTII, 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 |
| 2023 | | Last Days of Summer | Sound Designer | | IFFR |
| 2023 | | Which Colour | Sound Designer | | IFFR |
| 2022 | | Nazarband | Sound Designer | | Pune International Film Festival |
| 2020 | Hindi | Green Blackberries | Sound Designer | | Peoples Film Collective |
| 2020 | Hindi | Eeb Allay Ooo | 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 |
| 2019 | Hindi | Gumnaam Din (Missing Days) | Sound Designer | Ekta Mittal Public Service Broadcasting Trust | Berlin International Film Festival 2020 |
| | | Jaadui Machchhi | Sound Designer | Mira Nair Ektara Collective | 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 | | | |
| | | That Cloud Never Left | | | |
| 2019 | | Agar Wo Desh Banati/ If She Built A Country | Sound Designer, Mixer | Maheen Mirza PSBT | International Documentary and Short-film Festival of Kerala |
| | | Aise Hee | | | |
| | | Anandi Gopal | | | Pune International FIlm Festival |
| | | At home, walking | | | Yamagath Documentary Festival |
| 2018 | | Sona Dhwandi Bhed Te Suchha Pahad (The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain) | | Ridham Janve | Dharamshala International Film Festival, 2018 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam |
| | | My name is salt | | | |
| | | Vaishnav Jan Toh | | | |
| | | Nazarband | | Mr Mukhopadhyay | Busan International Film Festival |
| 2018 | Hindi | Absence | | 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 | | Karma Takapa | Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 2017 Jio Mami Film Festival, 2017 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival |