Byambasuren Davaa, really Davaagiin Byambasüren (Mongolian:
Ð"аваагийн Ð'Ñ Ð¼Ð±Ð°Ñ Ò¯Ñ€Ñ Ð½; born 1971 in Ulaanbaatar), is
a Mongolian film maker currently residing in Germany.Between 1995 and
1998 she studied at the Movie Academy in Ulaanbaatar. In 1998 she
began to work as a moderator and director's assistant with Mongolian
National Television. In 2000 she moved to Munich, Germany, to study
documentary film and communication sciences at the University of
Television and Film Munich.Her films through 2006 tell stories
embedded in the traditional life of the nomads in Mongolia. The
subjects of her movies also serve as amateur actors, playing mostly
themselves, which positions her work somewhere between documentary and
fiction. Her latest film Two Horses of Genghis Khan featuring the
singer Urna's quest to find the origins of a song is due for release
in Germany in 2010.She was a 2005 Academy Award nominee for her film
The Story of the Weeping Camel.
Ð"аваагийн Ð'Ñ Ð¼Ð±Ð°Ñ Ò¯Ñ€Ñ Ð½; born 1971 in Ulaanbaatar), is
a Mongolian film maker currently residing in Germany.Between 1995 and
1998 she studied at the Movie Academy in Ulaanbaatar. In 1998 she
began to work as a moderator and director's assistant with Mongolian
National Television. In 2000 she moved to Munich, Germany, to study
documentary film and communication sciences at the University of
Television and Film Munich.Her films through 2006 tell stories
embedded in the traditional life of the nomads in Mongolia. The
subjects of her movies also serve as amateur actors, playing mostly
themselves, which positions her work somewhere between documentary and
fiction. Her latest film Two Horses of Genghis Khan featuring the
singer Urna's quest to find the origins of a song is due for release
in Germany in 2010.She was a 2005 Academy Award nominee for her film
The Story of the Weeping Camel.
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