Journalist turned independent filmmaker, Supriyo Sen has produced and directed feature and short documentaries like "Wait Until Death", “The Dream of Hanif” "The Nest", "Way Back Home", "Hope Dies Last in War" “Rupban – The Beautiful” and “Wagah”.

Supriyo has won more than thirty five International awards for his films which include, Berlin Today Award at Berlin Film Festival, Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Grand Prix at Bilbao International Film Festival, BBC Award at Commonwealth Film Festival, Golden Lola (German short film Award), Black Pearl Award at Abu Dhabi Film Festival, National Geographic Award at Flickerfest, Golden Conch at Mumbai International Film Festival, Jury and Audience Award at Krakow, Tampere, Hamburg, Uppsala, Munster, Huesca,  Winterthur, Damascus, Zagreb, IFFI (Goa), Rio-de-Janeiro, Parnu, Faito, Saguenay etc.

He has also won three National Awards including Swarna Kamal for the best Documentary of the Year for “Hope Dies Last in War”.

His films have been screened at festivals in Berlin , Sundance, Los Angels, Karlovy Vary , Pusan , Sydney , Amsterdam (IDFA), Hot Docs, Silverdocs, True False, Nyon, Krakow , Sheffield , Cork , Yamagata, Human right Watch, Bilbao , Tampere , Uppsala , Palm Spring, Indian Panorama (IFFI), Mumbai (MIFF) etc.

His two hours long feature Way Back Home is the first Indian documentary that was commercially released.

Supriyo has also received grants from Sundance Documentary Fund, Jan Vrijman Fund (IDFA) and Asian Cinema Fund (AND)  from Pusan International Film Festival.

He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talent Campus and served as juror in Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Korean International documentary Festival and Indian National Award selection.

Retrospective of his films was organized by Thiruvanantapuram International Short and Documentary Festival in 2009 and Persistence and Resistance – Independent dcoumentary film festival, New Delhi in 2010.