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anirban datta
Born 1975, Kolkata
dreamer, writer, film maker, photographer

Post Graduate Diploma in Cinema, (Direction & Screenplay Writing)
Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata. 2006

started writing for films since 1996 with Amlan’s diploma film
written several screenplays for television fiction before joining the film school
worked for the company since its inception as screenwriter/ associate/ director

 

Filmography  


‘Tetris’
,
2006                
 
a 30 mins short film, 35 mm Colour.

The film writer, cameraman, production manager and the actress set off on a car trip driving through the story. A trip the director chooses to abstain. He believes it’s a story the road will write. All he needs is the writer to refine the route map… pen and petrol.
A pointless long travel. The crewmembers fall apart one by one.  Actress is let alone with the writer. The travel continues till they meet a dead end.

But the story has to return.

Festival de Cannes, 2006 (Cinefondation category)
Intl Students Film & Video Festival,
Beijing Film Academy, 2006
Rio de Janeiro Intl Film Festival,
2006
 Intl Film Festival of Kerala,
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Ekhane Amar Nocturne, 2004
a 29 min documentary, DVCam

Here is my Nocturne traces out a few forgotten nocturnal liasions. It comes across some lone and solitary night birds, whose flight down memory lane takes us through alleys of chance moments; revisiting the very known city architecture, unearthing the layers within…unseen, uninhabited.

A city lost in cozy slumber
A city in absentia
A sleepless city

Awaiting 
The wind’s eye…


Indian Panorama,
IFFI, Goa, 2005
Mumbai Int Film Festival,
Mumbai, 2006
Helsinki City Art Museum,
Exhibition on Indian Pop art & Culture, 2006
Intl Students Film & Video Festival,
Beijing Film Academy, 2006

 in Production

‘.in for motion’, 2006-08
an hour long documentary film under production, HDV/ HDCam

funded by Jan Vrijman Fund (Netherlands), in association with BBC (UK), YLE (Finland), Majade (Germany) 

A menagerie of miniscule human stories through highways and the information superhighway,
the reach of commodity and information, the democracy of distribution and upgradation…
interwoven, like beads of a necklace around a piece of thread  - the changing India

 

     

 
 


'Chronicle of an Amnesiac', 2007
a documentary film under production for NHK, Japan


the transit to nonexistence- globalization and an old cosmopolitan

The film meets a few characters who are in the process of disappearing into the domain of amnesia.



 

   
Award

Nokia Award for Best Developed Project (Pre-Production) in Docedge, 05,
a documentary-pitching workshop organized by SRFTI in association with the European Documentary network (EDN)
   
 
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