Film Independent When Zeynep Koray traveled to the US for the LA Residency portion of her stint as part of Film Independent’s Global Media Makers (GMM) program in 2019, she didn’t anticipate that she’d depart California with a new collaborator and her next film firmly in pocket. An accomplished producer in her native Turkey, Koray was already busy developing one project— Empire of the Rabbits—and could not have foreseen that she would fall in love with another script, A Year of Cold, written by fellow GMM participant Min Bahadur Bham. An acclaimed Nepalese filmmaker based out of Kathmandu, Bham grew up observing the unique polygamist customs of his rural village, and from those memories and observations he created