Biography

Zoljargal Purevdash is a Mongolian filmmaker. Her first short film Over the City, Under the Sky (2010) won the Cinema Club Award from the West Tokyo City Film Festival. After graduating from film school in Japan, she returned to Mongolia and worked on several films as a first assistant director. Since then, she has directed two experimental short films called Burgundy (2013) and Outliers (2017), both screened at the Altan Khalis Independent Film Festival. Now she is working on script development of her first feature film, I Wish I Could Hibernate. The script has been selected by the Talents Tokyo 2017 and won the Talents Tokyo Award. It was also selected for the Torino Film Lab Extended Script Development for 2018.

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