Media series (Thursday) 2004
1 January 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
de Sica's The Bicycle Thief (1948).
8 January 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Anand Patwardhan's Bombay Our City (58 mins, 1985).
15 January 2004
Foreign TV News on Nepal: Does It Make Any Difference at All?
Daniel Lak, BBC
22 January 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Govinda Nihilani's film Sanshodhan (1996, 165 mins).
29 January 2004
Question on FM Radio Revolution
Raghu Mainali
5 February 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Kesang Tseten's documentary We Homes Chaps (2001, 67 mins).
12 February 2004
Foreign Direct Investment in Media.
Puskar Lal Shrestha, Editor, Nepal Samacharpatra and Bijaya Ghimire,
Chairman, Society of Economic Journalist
19 February 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Steven Speilberg's film Schindler's List (1993, 195 mins).
26 February 2004
Child Rights in Mass Media.
Toya Gautam, Kantipur TV
3 March 2004 (Additional discussion)
Community Radio in Nepal: A Research
Arjun Banjade, Research Fellow, Ohio University
4 March 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
John Frankenheiner's The Burning Season (1994, 2 hrs & 3 mins).
11 March 2004
Present Situation of Weekly Newspapers.
Prakash Adhikari, Former Editor, Deshantar; Babita Basnet, Editor, Ghatna
Ra Bichar and Babu Ram Dhakal, Dristi
18 March 2004
Magazine Journalism
Sudheer Sharma, Editor, Nepal
25 March 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Sophia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003, 1 hr & 42 mins)
1 April 2004
Growing up with Radio
Basanta Thapa
8 April 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Born Again (43 mins, 2004), a film based on single women of Nepal directed
by Kedar Sharma.
15 April 2004
Journalism in English in Nepal.
Akhilesh Upadhaya and Suman Pradhan.
22 April 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Majid Majidi's Children of Heaven (1997, 1hr 28 mins)
29 April 2004
News Production in Kathmandu's FM Radio Stations.
Prabin Adhikari, Kantipur FM; Sanjiv Adhikari, Radio Sagarmatha; Narayan
Bhandari, HBC FM
6 May 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Let's Talk Men (120 mins), a collection of four documentaries
13 May 2004
Sport Journalism
Rajendra Gyawali, Kantipur; Niranjan Rajbanshi, Forum for Sport Journalists
and Lalit Krishna Shrestha, Spokesman, ANFA.
20 May 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Jafar Panahi's The Circle (Iranian film with English subtitle, 2000,
91mins)
27 May 2004
Social and Institutional Aspects of Radio Nepal (Special Discussion
on Radio Nepal)
Pratyoush Onta, Krishna Adhikari, Dev Raj Humagain, Komal Bhatta, Shekhar
Parajulee, Prajwol Chapagain, Bina Sharma, Dhirendra Premarshi and Kumar
Yatru.
3 June 2004
Film @ Chautari: show and discussion
Sushma Joshi's Pani (A documentary about women and water in Nepal) (28
mins, 2000)
(Cancelled due to bandh)
10 June 2004
Nepali press during emergency: What was reported and what did we learn?
Binod Bhattarai, Journalist and Mahendra Bista, Federation of Nepalese
Jounalists
17 June 2004
Film @ Chautari: Film show and discussion
Nachamkieka Hiraharu (1 hr 44 mins, 2061)
Jibesh Yonjan, Director and Suvas Shrestha, Market Manager.
24 June 2004
How viable is Nepal's Advertisement Market?
Bhaskarraj Rajkarnikar, Advertising Agencies Association of Nepal (AAAN).
1 July 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Early Cinemas (short films) by Louis and Auguste Lumiere
8 July 2004
Views of Political Parties on Government Owned Media.
Shankar Pokharel, CPN (UML) and Narahari Acharya, NC.
15 July 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
The Day I Became a Woman (74 mins. 2000) by Marziyeh Meshkini
22 July 2004
How to increase the number of Janajati Journalist?
Chun Bahadur Gurung, Rajdhani and Rudra Singh Tamang, Editor, Rautahat
Times
29 July 2004
Film @ Chautari (Premiere show and discussion):
Lakshya by Manoj Pandit
Manoj Pandit, director.
5 August 2004
Media Training: Evaluation of Current Practices.
Sri Ram Singh Basnet, Media Point and Gokul Pokharel & Hasta Gurung,
Nepal Press Institute.
12 August 2004
Film@chautari (show and discussion):
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 (116 mins, 2004)
19 August 2004
Peace Journalism.
Mohan Mainali, Journalist and Hasta Gurung, Nepal Press Institute.
26 August 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
11’09’’01 September 11 (2002, 115 min), A collection
of documentaries by 11 directors.
2 September 2004
Discussion cancelled due to curfew.
9 September 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Nagesh Kukunoor's Hyderabad Blues.
16 September 2004
Book Publication on Nepali Media: Situation and Challenges.
P. Kharel, Journalist and Dev Raj Humagain, Martin Chautari.
23 September 2004
Film @ Chautari (show and discussion):
Michael Curtiz's Casablanca (1942, 1hr and 42 mins)
30 September 2004
Gender Discrimination in Nepali TV Programs.
Deepa Gautam, Chief Program Producer, NTV.
7 October 2004
Forthcoming Programs of Film Development Board (FDB).
Sambhujeet Baskota, President, FDB and Ashok Sharma, Member, FDB
14 October 2004
Programs on Current Affairs in FM Radio Stations.
Shreeram Paudel, Kantipur FM and Narayan Shrestha, Radio Sagarmatha.
21 October and 28 November 2004
No discussion due to Dashain.
4 November 2004
Film@Chautari(show and discussion)
Tran Anh Hung's The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2001, 112 mins, Vietnamese
with English Subtitles)
11 November 2004
No discussion due to Tihar.
18 November 2004
Post Conflict Situation, Election and Democracy: Experience of Iraq,
Afghanistan and Nepal
Kariyam Alrabi, Director, International Media Program(IMPACS)
25 November 2004
Film@Chautari(show and discussion)
Turf wars: Conservation claims in the great Himalayan National Park
(38 mins) by Sanjay Barnela and Vasanta Saberwal
2 December 2004
9 December 2004
16 December 2004
Content of News of Nepali TV Channels.
Dhurbahari Adhikari, Nepal Press Institute and Tirtha Koirala, Kantipur
Television.
30 December 2004
Experiences of Hosting Radio Programs.
Mandira Dhungel, Hits FM and Gehini Joshi, Metro FM., Rita Limbu, Image
FM