ENTERTAINMENT
SARAH REYES & DANIEL DRIENSKY I FILMMAKERS
Exploredinary is an award-winning creative agency founded in 2015 by Sarah Reyes and Daniel Driensky that specializes in documentary filmmaking, photography, and art. The moniker refers to the duality of the ordinary and the extraordinary - and the exploration of their interdependence.
Sarah is an artist, explorer, and co-owner of Exploredinary. Born to Guatemalan immigrants, Sarah sees visual storytelling as a universal language, with the power to connect and celebrate the multitude of ways in which humanity exists.
Daniel is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer working as one half of the creative duo Exploredinary. He has worked in the field documenting people & society for over 15 years, and is a certified drone pilotwhich came in very useful when capturing the terrain of rural Nepal for this film.
FEATURE FILM
ART IS LOVE: NEPAL
Artist Sean Starr watched his own trade of sign painting nearly vanish in the age of digitization. Compelled to see what kinds of craftsmanship still exists on the other side of the world, Sean embarks on a journey to Nepal to meet other artistisans such as: thangka painters, wood carvers, singing bowl manufacturers, paper makers, basket weavers, and other sign painters.
The film culminates with a motorcycle trek into the himalyas where Sean meets the Magar people and paints a mural on their elementary school. The Magar’s primary artform is music and dance, which vividly illustrates the joy and significance of passing down traditional arts forms from one generation to the next.
CAST
SEAN STARR
For decades, Visual Artist Sean Starr’s original artwork has been displayed in exhibitions at galleries in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Napa Valley, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio and Ireland.
Blending his background as an artist, sign painter, designer and illustrator, Sean Starr has achieved an international reputation while working with other artists such as The Cranberries, Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsay Buckingham, The Toadies, Reese Witherspoon, and Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz.
Starr was featured in the film and book “Sign Painters” and his work has seen coverage in media such as the Discovery Channel, NBC, Robb Report, Dallas Observer, Juxtapoz and ArtForum magazines.
Sean operates Starr Studios located in Central Texas and most of his original work today consists of gold leaf on glass known as verre eglomise
SUSAN MANANDHAR
VISHU SIJALI
TASHI LAMA
RAJU SHRESHTHA
PRATEKS SHRESTHA
LALIT PRAJAPATI
KRISHNA MAYA SHILPAKAR
RAMNARAYAN PRAJAPATI
BEL BAHADUR THAPA
TOPALA THAPA & LAUMAYA SHRIS
DEV TARAMU
