IAN SCOTT CLEMENT

Apr. 20 2021

Virtual Event

Ian Scott Clement is a 31 year old writer/director/editor based in Kathmandu, who has been living and working in the city for over 8 years. Hailing from a small town in New Hampshire, Ian got his start making films as a teenager, getting together with friends on weekends to shoot short movies to compete in his high school’s annual film festival. In 2008 he traveled with his high school best friend Viraj Thapa to his hometown of Kathmandu. Here he spent three months traveling around Nepal, making friends with the locals and immersing himself in the vibrant contemporary culture of the city. In 2010 he returned to Nepal to begin shooting his thesis project at Massart ‘Mango Pickle‘, a gritty post war youth based narrative with the help of his close group of Nepali friends. After travelling back and forth to Nepal multiple times for re-shoots and dubbing, in 2014 he moved back to Kathmandu to finish the post production. In 2016 he teamed up with longtime friends and collaborators Suraj Mainali and Gourav Basnet to co-found Gaurishankar Entertainment, an independent film production house, and began writing their first feature film ‘Basenji‘. Wrapping their production in late 2020, ‘Basenji‘ has gone on to participate in a handful of festivals including Salerno and Black Hills, and is still currently in the midst of it’s festival run. Apart from directing films Ian is a fixture in Nepal’s flourishing hip hop community and has made a number of music videos for the top emcees in the country.