If you wanted to meet the man who is perhaps the most successful filmmaker to come out of the South Asian country of Nepal, Wilmington might be the last place you’d look.
And yet, for the past three years, the Nepalese writer, director and producer Deepak Rauniyar, who is the first filmmaker from his country to have his work celebrated on an international stage, has called the Port City home.
Rauniyar’s short films and features have played film festivals in Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Toronto, and his 2016 feature “White Sun,” which reckoned with Nepal’s devastating 10-year civil war, was Nepal’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018.
“White Sun,” which was co-produced by the actor Danny Glover’s Louverture Films, led The New York Times to put Rauniyar on its 2017 list of “9 New Directors You Need to Watch,” saying the movie “shows how the lingering…
