| Lalit Bhusal | |
| Birth Date: | 1975 1, df=yes |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor, filmfestival director and author. |
Lalit Bhusal (Devanagari: ललित भुषाल; born 21 January 1975) is a British filmmaker known for his multiple Award-Winning Feature Film "Crushed Wings".
Lalit Bhusal was raised in India and then in Nepal, his father was in the Indian Army and his mother worked as a social worker. Bhusal has been residential in the United Kingdom since 2000 and currently his company is base in United Kingdom and Netherlands.[1]
Bhusal worked for various film Asian and English film projects since 2001 and he started his film making career in 2010 with the short film "Trash or Treasure" which was released in the same year.
He is the director and producer of the award-winning short film "Leeches" which received the Award of Merit in the international film festival in Jakarta.[2] The film highlights the unnoticed illegal human trafficking for sex trade in the UK. In an interview published in the Ekantipur he explains what triggered him to start writing a screenplay for the film. Bhusal feels that human trafficking and forced sexual slavery is a serious crime and a violation of human rights and hopes that the film will contribute in educating on human trafficking resulting a psychological change in the human traffickers."[1]
Bhusal's Feature Film Crushed Wings has won more than 40 Award from International Film Festivals, Crushed Wings and is expected to be released on OTT platform in 2022.
2021 - Crushed Wings: Drama (ENG) about female genital mutilation, forced marriages and domestic violence within the Asian society.
| Year | Film | Worked as | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | "Trash or Treasure" | Director, Producer and Director of Photography | |
| 2014 | "Man of God" | Director of Photography, Associate Producer | |
| 2015 | "Leeches" | Director, Producer, Writer | |
| 2021 | Crushed Wings | Director, Producer, Writer[3] |