Ritu finished her schooling in London and did her undergraduate studies in Delhi University. After graduation, she worked in Europe for three years, representing the Tea Board of India. Having always had a passion for cinema, she then did an MFA in Film and Video from the California College of Arts in Oakland. Tenzing was born in Darjeeling in northeastern India of Tibetan refugee parents. After graduating from Delhi University, he worked for a year in the Tibetan Government-in-exile in Dharamsala. He studied at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California in Berkeley, where he specialised in documentary filmmaking.