Sahara Sharma
CEO, Founder
Writer, Producer, Director
Sahara Sharma is a Kathmandu/ New York-based writer, director, producer, and media entrepreneur. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gauthali Entertainment, where she has created films and television series centred on women’s lives, identity, sexuality, migration, and mental health.
Her debut television film, ‘Chasing Rainbows’ (2013), opened the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival and won the Nepal Panorama Award. It later received the Critics’ Award at the Toronto Nepali Film Festival. Her other works include TV series ‘Gauthali Ka Katha Haru’ (2017–2018), ‘Maya Bhanne Cheez Estai Ho’ (2018–2019), and the cinema roundtable programme ‘Gauthali Talks’ (2020).
Sahara is the writer and director of ‘Ek Mutthi Badal: My Share of Sky’ (2026), Nepal’s first women-led international co-production, made with a majority-women crew. The project participated in Locarno Open Doors, NFDC Film Bazaar, Rotterdam Lab, and West Meets East. It received the Hubert Bals Fund + Europe Post-production Grant, making Sahara the first Nepali filmmaker to receive the award.
A graduate of Bangalore University with a Master of Science in Communication, Sahara began her career as a journalist before establishing Gauthali Entertainment. Her work has received several awards and critical recognition for its intimate portrayal of women and its challenge to conventional representations of womanhood in Nepali cinema.
Abhimanyu Dixit
COO, Founder
Writer, Producer, Director
Abhimanyu Dixit is a Kathmandu-based film producer, filmmaker, and educator. He is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Gauthali Entertainment, where he has worked across fiction, documentary, television, and digital productions since 2011.
His producing and creative credits include ‘Chasing Rainbows’ (2013), ‘Gauthali Ka Katha Haru’ (2017-2018), ‘Maya Bhanne Cheez Estai Ho’ (2018-2019), ‘Hajur’ (2021), ‘Yatra’ (2022), and ‘Ek Mutthi Badal: My Share of Sky’ (2026), Nepal’s first women-led international co-production, made with a majority-women crew. For Ek Mutthi Badal, he received the Rotterdam Lab Award at the NFDC Film Bazaar and participated in the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Rotterdam Lab. The film was later supported by the Hubert Bals Fund + Europe in the post production stage.
Abhimanyu is a recipient of the Freedom Filmmaker Award. He has also worked in film festival programming and campaigning, including as Programming Director of the Ekadeshma International Short Film Festival and with the Nepal Cine Symposium.
He teaches Film and Media Studies at Kathmandu University and has written film criticism for The Kathmandu Post.
Sahayog Raj Adhikari
Actor / Producer
Sahayog Raj Adhikari is a core team member of Gauthali Entertainment since its establishment in 2015. He has worked as an Executive Producer and Casting Director for various projects in Gauthali. Alongside, since 2017 he has worked as a senior producer on TV filmy- a national television channel. He worked as a casting director and acting coach for commercial projects for Princess Movies. He is an alumni of Actor’s Studio (2016) and has worked as a cast member in various television series- Crime Patrol (2021), Maya Bhanne Cheez Estai Ho (2018-19), Gauthali Ka Katha Haru (2017), short films, and feature films.
Aashruti Tripathi
Director
Aashruti Tripathi is a documentary filmmaker and producer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Media studies from Kathmandu University, her academic research focussing on ‘Analysis of Nepali film posters’. Her first fiction short film premiered on Himalaya Television as part of a series while still a student. She has worked as a Director, Assistant Director, Cinematographer and Editor. Her experiences as a filmmaker ranges from TV to web series, and documentaries. She is also a participant of ’Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) filmmaking workshop and film festival, 2018. She has also worked as a photojournalist at Kathmandu Post, and as a Multimedia Associate for Daayitwa Nepal, an NGO focussing on youth employment and rural entrepreneurship. As the core-team of Gauthali Entertainment, Aashruti is currently working on her fifth documentary, and her second fiction short.
Agrani Thakuri Jha
Art Director
Agrani Thakuri Jha is a visual artist based out of
Kathmandu, Nepal. She is the Art Director in the feature film project, Ek Mutthi Badal, My Share of Sky, her most recent work. Her art extends to the visual and print medium. She has authored a graphic poetry ‘It’s OK’ as a writer, and graphics designer. She has also worked as an artistic director in various TV commercials, and web advertisements for multinational brands such as ‘Daraj’.
Ashma Gautam
Director/Producer
Ashma Gautam is a media professional and filmmaker with a strong academic background in media arts and storytelling. She holds a Master’s degree in Media Arts Cultures from Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters, where she was a recipient of a merit-based full scholarship. Ashma has extensive experience in video editing, production, and direction, with proficiency in tools like Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Adobe Audition. She has worked on various independent film projects, including post-production supervision for the feature film Ek Muthi Badal and editing for award-winning short films like Shikha Mainbattiko-Reimagined.