Yakthung Film Makers Association
About Us
Yakthung Munchait Chok Sayang [Yakthung Film Makers Association] is an institutional organization of filmmakers established in Limbuwan in 2066 B.S. to creatively express, document, preserve, promote, and globalize Yakthung language, script, culture, Mundhum, history, traditional knowledge, worldview, and identity through cinema, while protecting filmmakers’ rights and fostering unity and professional solidarity. Its Federal Office is in Shobhahiti, Lalitpur–14, Nepal, led by senior filmmaker and Indigenous leader Sagar Kerung as Federal President. The Association regards cinema as a medium of collective memory and cultural heritage, grounded in Yakthung Laje–Limbuwan (geography), Yakthung (language), Mundhum (philosophy), and coexistence and dignity (aesthetics). It promotes Mundhumi Cinema Structures through networks in Newa:Tamsaling, Limbuwan, Panchthar, Sikkim, Hong Kong, the USA, and UK, and thematic bodies including Film Registration Procedure Committee, Story Bank, and Endowment Fund, which provides pensions to senior artists aged 70+ with 25+ years’ contribution. It organizes festivals, training, workshops, criticism, research, and international collaborations; produced “Tangsings” and “Munchait”; and advanced Yakthung Film Studies in Grades 11–12 and Master’s education at Sikkim Alpine University.
