Byamba Sakhya

Biography

Born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Byamba Sakhya graduated All Russian State Film Institute – VGIK as cinematographer. He is a documentary and fiction filmmaker with a long record collaboration on international film productions. His documentary PASSION (2010) won main prizes at film festivals in Asia, the Americas, and Europe; his first feature, REMOTE CONTROL (2013) the winner of the Prince Claus Film Fund Award was supported by the Hubert Bals Script Development Fund and by the World Cinema Fund and was later premiered at the 18th Busan IFF and received the New Currents Award. Byamba is co-founder of Guru Media – a production company. BEDRIDDEN (2020) is his latest feature.