BLACK GOAT (2019)
12 MINUTES | COMING OF AGE DRAMA
WRITER/DIRECTOR Tang Yi
PRODUCER Tang Yi, Prabin Kumar Rawat, Keshab Pandey, Junyi Wu
LOGLINE
Pasang, a new girl at a nunnery, has her first period after hearing a late-night ghost story. She keeps it secret until she bleeds at a prayer session. She believes that she has been cursed and needs to sacrifice a black goat to avoid further misfortune.
SYNOPSIS
Pasang, a new girl at a nunnery, has her first period after hearing a late-night ghost story. She keeps it secret until she bleeds at a prayer session. She believes that she has been cursed and needs to sacrifice a black goat to avoid further misfortune.
She escapes the nunnery and takes on a fantastic journey to search for a black goat. After a bizarre funeral in her dreams, she makes peace with herself. Back in the nunnery, a surprise is waiting for her. This is a story about confronting our fears and learning to live with it.
BLACK GOAT premiered at Austin Film Festival (2019), where it won the Jury Award for Narrative Student Short. It later won Best Live Action Short (Oscar-qualified) at St. Louis International Film Festival (2020), and was selected for Atlanta, Palm Springs, Encounters, and Edinburgh International Film Festivals.
FESTIVAL PARTICIPATION AND ACHIEVEMENTS
WORLD PREMIERE Austin Film Festival, USA (2019)
JURY AWARD Austin Film Festival (Narrative Student Short) (2019)
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT (OSCAR QUALIFIED) St. Louis International Film Festival (2020)
Atlanta Film Festival (2021)
Palm Springs International ShortFest (2020)
Encounters International Film Festival (2020)
Edinburgh International Film Festival (2020)
CAST
Pasang Dolma as PASANG DOLMA LAMA
Tsering as DOLMA TSHERING
Tsultrim Wangmo as TSULTRIM WANGMO
Anu Thapa as THE GOAT WATCHER
Bhupendra Magar as THE BUTCHER
Ram Chaudary as SHAMAN
CREW
DIRECTOR: Tang Yi
PRODUCER: Tang Yi, Prabin Kumar Rawat, Keshab Pandey, Junyi Wu
CO PRODUCER: Bipin Sthapit, Kayla Arend, Anya Kiseleva, Shiyu Li
SCREENPLAY: Tang Yi
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Dominica Eriksen
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Suman Nidhi Sharma
EDITOR: Tang Yi, Nimesh Shrestha
SOUND DESIGN AND MIXING: Lemon Guo, Tsz Yeung Ho, Jihao Zhang, Bipin Sthapit
MUSIC: Lemon Guo, Bipin Sthapit
