Sange Dorjee Thongdok belongs to the Sherdukpen Tribe from the remote Northeast corner of the country. He is the first person of his state to pass out of a film school, the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, at Kolkata. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Delhi University.
Crossing Bridges is his first feature film based on his own people. It is also the first feature film in Shertukpen, a dialect and tribal community living in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, and the first feature film to be shot by a native of the state. The film has been shot in the director’s own village of Shergaon in Arunachal Pradesh.
Prior to this film, he has made two short films – Pratyabartan and Evening Café.
