Fixer

Experience of international cooperation:

• Ben Moyle, director, DoP of the company has been approved to the BBC global fixers list since 2005.
• Spirits in the Forest, Depeche Mode Film, 2019, Documentary
• Sons of Eden, 2018, Documentary, Old port films
• Dying to breathe: Mongolia’s polluted air, 2018, Documentary, TV series, Channel 4, UK

Main staff and artist:

• Ben Moyle, director, DoP

GURU MEDIA has been established by Byamba Sakhya & Ariunaa Tserenpil in 2006 with the goal to produce high quality artistic films for Mongolian and global audiences. The company has produced number of award winning full-length feature and documentaries and served various international co-productions as local line & executive producers. Guru Media supports local young independent filmmakers through UB Filmlab initiave designed for emerging young director and Ariunaa Tserenpil is one of the initiators & programming advisor of the Ulaanbaatar IFF.

• 2022 Wolves Always Come at Night Feature Documentary by Gabriella Brady (Australia)
  • in co-production Chromossom Films, Germany
  • In Development
• 2022 STATION. Feature by Byamba Sakhya
  • In Development
• 2022 ZE. Feature fiction by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
  • in co-production of Aurora Films,
  • France
  • World Cinema Fund 2021
  • Torino Film Lab 2019
  • Torino Production Lab 2021
  • CNC Special Mention Award at Torino Film Lab 2019
  • Open Door Hub, Locarno IFF 2020 & Production grant award
  • Hubert Bals Fund Development Grant 2020
  • CNC International Co-Production Grant,2021
  • Gap Financing Market, Venice IFF 2022
  • In Development
• 2021 BEDRIDDEN. Feature fiction by Byamba Sakhya
  Official selection of L’Atelier, Cannes IFF-2017;
  Sofia Meeting of the Sofia IFF 2017;
  • Script writing residency -2017 at the Moulin D’Ande, France
  • International competition of Black Nights, Tallin IFF-2020
  • International competition of Three Continents, France
  • Opening film of Ulaanbaatar IFF-2020
  • In distribution
• 2021 MOUNTAIN CAT short (writer/director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir)
  • Cannes Shorts in Competition 2020
  • BFI Shorts Official Selection 2020
  • Busan IFF 2020, Short competiton,2020 & Sonje Award of best Asian Short film
  • Sundance IFF 2021, Short competition
  • Selected more than 15 international festivals
  • In Distribution
• 2018 A BIGGER WORLD. Feature film by Fabienne Berhaud, France – Belgium
  • Mongolian Executive Producer
• 2017 MEMORY GAMES. Documentary by Janet Tobias & Claus Wehlisch, Germany  – US – Sweden
  • Mongolia Production Support
• 2016 KIDS OF SILK ROAD. Documentary by Jens Pederson, Denmark
  Mongolia Production Support
• 2013 REMOTE CONTROL, Feature fiction by Byamba Sakhya. Mongolia – Germany – USA
  • Supported by Hubert Bals Script Development Fund and World Cinema Fund
  • New Currents Award at Busan IFF 2013, Best Feature Film Award at the
  • ANONIMUL Int’l Independent FF, Bucharest 2014
  • Selected more than 20 IFF-s
• 2010 PASSION. Feature documentary by Byamba Sakhya
  • Supported by Asian Network of Documentary Fund, Visions Sud Est and Goteborg
  • IFF Fund
  • The Grand Prize for the Asia Vision Award at Taiwan IDF, The Best Documentary
  • Award at the Asiatica film mediale IFF of Rome
  • The Best Int’l Feature Documentary Award at the Monterrey IFF, Mexico
  • Busan IFF, Taiwan IDF, Dubai IFF, Goteborg IFF, San Francisco IAAFF etc
• 2006 – 2007 BABIES by Thomas Balmes, Feature documentary. France Mongolian line producer
• 2005 – 2006 KHADAK by Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodworth. Feature. Belgium – German–Netherlands
  • The Winner of the Lion of the Future at the Venice Film Festival – 2006
  • Mongolia line producer

Main Staff:

• Ariunaa Tserenpil (producer)
• Byamba Sakhya (director, producer)

Filmography

• Loro Piana “Origin of a Secret” (2019) as Fixers, Country Producers, set design, remote catering, translation, animal handling, casting, transportation logistics, equipment logistics
• Mohamed Bin Zayed Raptor Conservation Fund – Raptor Electrocution Mitigation Project (2021) – Video, Sound & Drone video recording, set design, casting, video editing, producers, script development, animal handling
• ICON Magazine – Mongolia Fashion Photo Shoot (2018) as Fixers, country producers, set design, animal handling, transportation logistics, translation, casting
• TUMI International Short Film (2018) as Fixers, country producers, script development, drone video recording, casting, animal handling, transportation logistics, set design, translation
• Over the years we have worked on productions for the Travel Channel, Red Bull Media, National Geographic, Disney, Dell Technologies, Felix & Paul Studios, among others.

Filmography

• Mythical Mountains of Mongolia Travel Show-“Хайрхан” аяллын нэвтрүүлэг” Mongol TV (2021)
• GAVI Vaccine Alliance (2021)
• Medical Care during COVID-19. WHO Western Pacific Region. (2020)
• Sharing COVID-19 experiences: The Mongolia Response WHO & Blink Studios (2020)
• +976 Snowdrop Flower by +81 Films (2020)
• Crash Landing on You (Dragon Studios, Mr. Romance Plus and Netflix) 2019, TV drama, Netflix, Crash Landing on You
  Asiana Airlines (Planit Productions Korea) 2019