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Sound of Silence

The Sound of Silence was screened at the Young Asian Currents in the Yamagata Documentary Film Festival in 1997. Here is the link to the festival: NEPAL Publications / index / New Asian Currents The Sound of Silence Director: Sushma Joshi Source: Sushma Joshi c/o PR Joshi PO Box 140, Kathmandu NEPAL e-mail: sushma@mos.com.np NEPAL / 1996 / English, Nepali / Color / Video / 60 min Sushma Joshi Grew up in Nepal. When she was nineteen, she went on to the US to do her undergraduate studies at Brown University. She majored in International Relations, which led her to be especially interested in questions of communication between different cultures and the power of representations. This interest in cultural issues and ethnography led her to take classes in anthropology and documentary. The Sound of Silence came out of these different interests. She is at present working