Shyamal Sengupta (Professor & Head of Department)

Academic Qualification: Post Graduate Diploma in Direction from FTII, Pune.

Industry experience: He has been associated with the three major film schools in the country (SRFTI, FTII, Whistling Woods) in either academic or administrative capacity. Much before that he worked with BBC World Service (Radio) in London for three years, and worked as Script consultant for various organizations including Channel 4, U.K. Back in the country, he worked as Senior Production for Business India Television. And off and on, he wrote a couple of scripts for fiction films which won major national awards and were shown at major festival abroad.

He has also worked as a Production consultant for a  number of foreign productions, including documentaries commissioned by BBC 2. He has participated as speaker in a number of national & international seminars.