Kunga Choephel is a Tibetan director, cinematographer and photographer raised in India and based out of Queens, New York. Proud son of an immigrant Taxi driver, his
directing and photography work carries strong undercurrents of class, identity, and family. As a DP he is interested in intimate character studies and approaches the process with a collaborative spirit across every department.

Kunga has worked with many clients, including brands and NGO’s like Mellon Foundation, Children’s Aid, META, Ray Bans, Pinterest, FADER, Topicals, and Adolescent Content. He has been a teaching artist at institutions like Maysles
Documentary Center, SUNY Purchase, and Greenwich Country Day School. Kunga is a co-founder of a production Co-op “Are We There Yet?” a group of NYC filmmakers specializing in making branded content.

He is a graduate of the Film Conservatory at SUNY Purchase where he was awarded Chair’s Award for Outstanding Filmmaker and The Jesse Feigelman Film Award. His film "This is closest to how the last weeks of March felt like” is a personal account of the Covid-19 pandemic in America and its effects on an immigrant family as seen through the eyes of a student quarantined at his barren university. The film screened at Short of the Week, National Film Festival for Talented Youth, and Tide Film Festival. He is a recipient of the Storyline Apprenticeship and Manhattan Film Institute scholarship.