Kunsang Kyirong is a Tibetan Canadian film director and screenwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia,Kami Nguyen, "Acceptance and the Tibetan Diaspora On-Screen". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, September 5, 2025. whose feature-length film debut, 100 Sunset, premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.Adam Nayman, "TIFF 2025: ‘100 Sunset’ offers mystery and intrigue within Parkdale’s Tibetan community". Toronto Star, September 6, 2025.
Career A graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design,Alex de Boer, "CiTR Docs Season 2: Lhamo & the Princess – Available Now". CITR-FM, May 22, 2017. she made her filmmaking debut with Yarlung in 2020. The film won the award for Best Student Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2020.Perrin Grauer, "Kunsang Kyirong’s ‘Yarlung’ Wins Best Canadian Student Animation at 2020 OIAF". Emily Carr University of Art and Design, October 8, 2020.
Her 2022 short film Dhulpa received an honorable mention in the National Short Film Competition at the 2022 Festival du nouveau cinéma.Charles-Henri Ramond, "(FNC) – Palmarès de l’édition 2022". Films du Québec, October 16, 2022.
100 Sunset, Kyirong's feature-length film debut, premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention for the Best Canadian Discovery award.Pete Hammond, "‘Hamnet’ Wins Oscar-Predictive Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award". Deadline Hollywood, September 14, 2025.
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