Tshering Gyeltshen, popularly known as Tshigyel, is the National Director of Miss Bhutan. Tshigyel has been associated with Miss Bhutan from its founding days of the 1st Edition in 2008 as a pageant contest Judge, Advisor and as one of the Hosts for the Grand Finale of the 1st Edition of Miss Bhutan. He was a member of the Advisory Committee in the 2nd Edition. In the 3rd Edition held in 2022, Tshigyel served as the Creative Director in packaging the episodic contents of Miss Bhutan for TV and the Shangreela OTT platform. Tshigyel has been the driving force in founding Bhutan Pageant House and acquiring the rights of Miss Bhutan pageant from the former owner. He is the key architect crafting the new manifestation of Miss Bhutan.
Tshigyel, an alumnus of Sherubtse College in Eastern Bhutan and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia is a multi-talented and multi-award-winning writer/actor/director and film and Mediacom researcher and consultant. He has been working in the Bhutanese media, culture, entertainment, film and performing arts and creative industry for two and a half decades. He is an exemplary team leader and pioneer, excelling and breaking new grounds in various career pursuits and projects that he either led or has been a part of. He is the Founder and CEO of Shangreela, Bhutan’s first integrated tech-driven film, media and entertainment and digital content company, which is a precursor to Samuh+Shangreela.
Early in his diverse career, Tshigyel worked as a journalist with the national newspaper, Kuensel, rising to the position of Chief Reporter and Sub-Editor in the shortest span of time in the newspaper’s history. While in Kuensel, Tshigyel was granted special recognition by the paper as the Best Journalist, contributing significantly to the national newspaper’s quality of reporting and brand identity. He also worked as a part-time radio and TV News Presenter for the national broadcaster, BBS. A passionate, thoroughly professional, disciplined and self-made man, Tshigyel is known as “the Perfectionist” by his peers and well-wishers.
He is an active and prominent member of the Bhutanese media, film and creative arts industry. He won the National Best Actor Award four times, the Best Screenwriter Award three times, and the Best Director Award two times, the only professional to achieve such a feat in Bhutan. He has altogether won a total of eleven national film awards and his films have won more than 40 national awards in various categories. His documentary, 86 Centimeters, also won the best documentary award at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival in 2015.
