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Anji Sauvé Clubb
​Director/Producer

Anji holds a master’s degree in urban planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and studied filmmaking at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. After several years working in the non-profit sector, Anji decided to pursue her passion for filmmaking and moved to Ulaanbaatar in 2014. Cumulatively, she has over fifteen years’ experience living and working in East Asia, having spent her formative years in between the US, Taiwan, and Australia. Anji’s background is in public policy, international development, and arts & entertainment. She holds a bachelor’s in Asia Studies from Georgetown University. Nomad Meets the City is Anji's debut feature film.
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Dulguun Bayasgalan
Producer
+Cinematographer/Composer

Dulguun is a musician, entrepreneur, and filmmaker. He has released two records as Magnolian, and was the first Mongolian band to perform at SXSW. In Mongolia, he is the second most streamed artist on Spotify after The Hu. Dulguun is also the co-founder of the Fat Cat Jazz Club in Ulaanbaatar, which was crowdfunded and has become a cultural center in the city. As a filmmaker, Dulguun has extensive experience from scriptwriting to shooting to editing. He produced, wrote the music for, and starred in the 2019 Mongolian indie feature, “They Sung Up on the Hill”, which premiered at the 2018 Busan Film Festival. His short works have been shown at various film festivals, including the 2016 Venice Biennale.
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Alice Tabery
​Producer

Simon Spidla
​Editor

Alice Tabery graduated in film production at Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). Her interests include author films and creative documentaries. Alice has worked on various projects both in and outside of the Czech Republic, including French and international coproductions. 
As an editor, Simon has collaborated with a number of leading Czech directors (Jan Němec, Věra Chytilová, Tomáš Bojar, Pavel Abrahám, Erika Hníková, Lucie Králová, Jan Bušta, to name a few). As director he made documentary Mrtvá trať (2011) which was presented in IFFR Rotterdam and goEast Wiesbaden. It also won prize of Czech Radio for best sound design. Simon received his master's in editing from FAMU in Prague.

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Suzanna Sumkhuu
​Producer

Suzanna Sumkhuu is the Head of Development Policy and Planning at the National Development Agency of Mongolia. She is a sustainability and development professional with a track record of designing and developing policy, institutional, and legal mechanisms for development planning in Mongolia. She is responsible for formulating long, medium and short-term national development policies, identifying development priorities across economic, social and environmental pillars of sustainable development, and providing methodological support to national and sub-national development planning counterparts. She is the technical focal point for the Sustainable Development Goals. Suzanna is the daughter of a veteran documentarian in Mongolia, and Nomad Meets the City is her first film project.
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Enkhbat Natsagdorj
Associate Producer

Enkhbat Natsagdorj is a pioneer and  leader of a new cinematic movement in Mongolia. He’s a co-founder and president of Altan Khalis, Mongolia's first independent film NGO, which organizes the weekly matinee, Dreamers’ Day (the first of its kind in Mongolia), and the Altan Khalis International Film Festival. In 2017, he was selected for the Visitor’s Programme of the 67th Berlinale by the Goethe Institute in Mongolia. In 2020, Enkhbat received the Chevening Scholarship from the British Government to study the master's in Film, Television, and Creative Practices at University of East Anglia. He is a filmmaker and producer of several shorts, music videos, and documentaries, and has translated 57 art and independent films into Mongolian.
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Walter Jenkins
Executive Producer

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Enkhjin Batjargal
Executive Producer

Walter Jenkins is an American businessman, philanthropist, and documentary film lover. He first visited Mongolia 20 years ago to help out a friend who was making a documentary film. Ever since, he has been involved in supporting education and arts initiatives in Mongolia. He sits on the board of the Arts Council of Mongolia, the American University in Mongolia, and Zorig Foundation, a Mongolian organization promoting democratic values and good governance.
Enkhjin Batjargal is the CEO and Co-Founder of GerHub. Prior to this position, she worked at Zorig Foundation, a leading non-governmental organization in Mongolia, as Senior Program Coordinator in charge of various education, environment, and community development projects. Enkhjin is the co-creator and host of Felt City podcast, a popular local podcast discussing urban development issues of Ulaanbaatar. Enkhjin has a BA in Economics from Whitman College, USA and an MSc in International Planning from the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London, UK.

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Batdorj Gongor
Field Producer

Batdorj holds a Bachelor’s degree in Power Engineering from the Mongolian University of Science and Technology. He is currently studying community architecture. Instead of sitting at a computer, he spends most of his time in the ger areas to get touch with communities directly. For the last 10 years, Batdorj works with the ger area communities to bring and lead them to create a better living space through community planning. He enjoys leading tours in ger areas and takes small pleasure in planning and bringing change in the community.
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Ivan Arsenjev
​Script Advisor

Ivan Arsenjev graduated Script and dramaturgy department at FAMU. He is the author and co-scriptwriter of feature films (Vojtěch, řečený sirotek, Cesta pustým lesem, Mír jejich duši, Krajina ve stínu). He is also cooperating on films as a script advisor (Dolls, Foxes, My Dog Killer and others). He has collaborated on many documentary films. He is working in a long term basis with director Miroslav Janek and Jana Ševčíková (Gyumri, Lean a Ladder against Heaven – Czech Lion for the best Documentary film, Czech Critic's Award, Trilobit Award, Pavel Koutecký's Award)  
Besides film projects, he has been traveling through Europe since 1993 with the Forman Brother´s theatre, where he is working as a scriptwriter of almost all performances. 
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Tomas Potocny
​Script Advisor

Tomáš Potočný is a film director and editor with a background in sociology. He graduated from the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University and earned a degree in Documentary Film Directing at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. Among other projects, he has worked on the fiction film Mamma Gógó as an editor, which was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Oscars in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. ​

Vladimir Chastril
​Sound Editor

Vladimír Chrastil graduated in Sound department at FAMU. He has worked as a sound designer on documentary and feature projects, now he focuses more on documentaries. He is collaborating with directors Břetislav Rychlik, Miroslav Janek, Pavel Štingl, Theodora Remundová and others. He did the sound design of the animation coproduction film titled The Tree by Lucie Sunková. He owns a sound studio where is working on all projects.

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