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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.
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