Pawo Choyning Dorji

The director of Oscar-nominee Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom captures the wonder and disruption as Bhutan becomes one of the world’s youngest democracies.

To fully understand the importance of his work, a teacher is sent to the world's most remote school in this breezy Bhutanese tale. Shot at the actual Himalayan school, which stands at roughly 5,000 metres altitude, the filmmakers had to use solar-powered batteries to achieve the shoot.