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

Industry experience: Worked on an Indo-Italian Film ‘in the twelfth night’ .Worked as Production Liaison Officer in a German film ‘Shadow of time’. Directed a diploma film ‘The Swing’ which participated in the 7^th Short Film Festival, Dhaka. Directed a Doordarshan commissioned documentary on Jnanpath Award wining poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay‘ Tar par JeteJete’.Directed SRFTI produced film ‘Golpokalpana’ which participated in Kolkata Film Festival (Video Section).Worked as EP for a documentary produced by Madhyam, Bhopal. Participated in a student exchange programme on production in HFF, Potsdam as faculty supervisor. Headed the student Production Dept for 14 years.Supervised around 60 Diplomas, 80 short films, innumerable AD, Promos, Playback & Student workshop.

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.

Academic qualification: B.Sc, University of Calcutta; Diploma in Music Recording, Audio Institute of America;  Post Graduate Diploma in Sound Recording from SRFTI, Kolkata

Industry experience: Expertise is in recording, editing, and mixing Indian music, restoring and remastering very old and damaged recordings; recorded and premixed the background music of films by Sandip Ray, supervised the song recording and background music for MonerManush; worked with singers and musicians of different genres during his tenure as Chief Recording Engineer at Saregama India Limited.

Academic Qualification:Post Graduate Diploma in MPP from FTII, Pune

Academic Experience: Various workshop on Digital Cinematography for practitioners and students. Lectures on aspects of the Digital image for seminars

Professional experience: Various features, TVCs, and non-fiction including:

‘10ml-Love’ , Dir: Sharat Katarya, 35mm Anamorphic (Feature); ‘Urmi’, Dir: Ruchi Pugalia, 35mm(Short Feature);’Afternoon’, Dir: Sudipto Acharaya, Canon 5D (Feature); Tata Sky, Saaz Masalas, Ecole Mondiale etc (TVCs), ‘Golibar’ , ‘Shared Footage Group’(Non-Fiction).Currently working on a docu-feature with eminent director Kumar Shahani(35mm).

Standardizing Digital Projection to DCI standards. Restoration work on ‘Char Adhyay’, “Kasba’, ‘Tarang’ and currently on ‘Maya Darpan’ all directed by Kumar Sahani, being done under the aegis of NFDC.

Academic qualification: Post Graduate Diploma in Direction from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.

Professional experience: Has been working for 15 years as an independent filmmaker based in Kolkata; directed critically acclaimed feature films like Prohor and Clerk.

Award:Best short Fiction National Award in 1995 for his diploma film Still Life, Best First Film of a Director National Award in 2003 for Prohor; prestigious Jury Award in Asian competition in IFFI 2003 for Prohor; Clerk (2010) has been selected for the Pusan Film Festival.

Background: A film society activist and a film historian who has worked as a freelance film critic for many years. He regularly lectures and writes on cinema.

Academic qualification: Recipient of Senior Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India; fellow of the prestigious Salzburg Seminar (Austria); recipient of research fellowship from the Indian Foundation for the Arts and another fellowship from SARAI-CSDS.

Teaching experience : Academic coordinator, Chitrabani Mass Communication Centre under St. Xavier’s College; visiting faculty to Film Studies Department, Calcutta University and Jadavpur University for several years; project co-ordinator at Seagull Foundation for the Arts.