Award-winning film on tour

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Angus Mccoll - news bites

Tania Verbeeck’s film Women Take on Nepal won the best documentary at the Sony Film Festival in 2021.

Tania hiked to Everest Base Camp in October 2019 with a unique allwomen’s support crew…and her film camera.
Tania was part of a group of women hikers doing the trek with Take on Nepal (TON), a trekking company run by Som Tamang and his wife Susan Devitt. The aim of TON is to provide career opportunities beyond FHC’s care, particularly for young women.

Tania is a professional marketer and videographer. With her camera she filmed her experiences, and those of the other women and guides on the trek. When she got home she found she had enough material to tell a story and so she did. The result is an award winning documentary called Women Take on Nepal. Some of the women highlighted in the film came up through FHC’s hostel.

The film articulates beautifully the difficulties and limitations confronting women in a very traditional and patriarchal regional Nepal. Som and Susan are doing something about that and Tania’s film explains how.

Tania’s aim was to use this film as a big-screen, fund-raiser for FHC but COVID got in the way. Now that restrictions have been lifted we can plan screenings. Adelaide is first.

The film will be on show at Adelaide’s Brighton Performing Arts Centre (BPAC) on Thursday 21 September.

Tickets for this event are available for purchase via our FaceBook events page.

And a screening in Cairns is in the planning process. More information for the Cairn’s screening will be available soon on FHC’s FaceBook and website.