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Sourav Sarangi
Sourav Sarangi
Sourav Sarangi is an international award-winning film-maker whose works have received critical acclaim at Berlin and Busan. An alumnus of the Presidency College and Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), the National Award-winning director of Bilal and Moddhikhane Char (CHAR... the No-Man's Island) has also served on many international juries and conducted workshops globally.One of Sourav's major works was Tusu Katha (The Tale of Tusu) in 1997. After he quit his job in mid-2000 as the controller of programmes for a Bengali television channel, his lens followed a child of ...
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Filmography
- Of Poetry and Peace (1992)
- Collage Art of Badal Sircar (1996)
- Zoo Kitchen (1996)
- Calcutta Time-machine (1996)
- Darjeeling 24 hours (1996)
- Tusu Katha (1997)
- Thirst of God (1997)
- Ekti Gramer Galpo (A Village Story) (2001)
- Shubha-r Katha (Story of Shubha) (2003)
- Amader Katha (Our Story) (2003)
- The Trail (2005)
- Bhangon (2006)
- Bilal (2008)
- Moddhikhane Char (CHAR... the No-Man's Island) (2012)
- Karbala Memoirs (2020)
Awards
- Bhangon won the BFJA Award for Best Documentary Director in 2006 and Best Documentary at Madurai Water Film Festival in 2007. It also won the Best Documentary in 2007 at CMS VATAVARAN, Delhi in the Water for All category that had Shyam Benegal in the jury.
- In 2009, Bilal won the Golden Award Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Award for Excellence, YIDFF, Yamagata, Japan, Best Documentary (Horizons) DOK.FEST, Best Documentary ZIFF, Best Documentary IDSFFK, Trivandrum, Best Documentary We Care Film Festival, Silver Ace Las Vegas International Film Festival, Jury Special Award Festival Intl. del Cine Pobre de Humberto Solas, Cuba, Silver Palm Mexico International Film Festival, Best Feature-Length Documentary, DOCUDAYS Beirut, Lebanon, Audience Award at Auburn International Film Festival, Australia, Community Cinema Award, YIDFF, Yamagata, Japan, Best Long Documentary, El Ojo Cojo, Madrid, Jury Special Award at Global Film Festival, India. In 2010, it won the Special Jury Mention at the Jean Rouch International Film Festival in Paris and the Best Documentary at the Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema.
- It also won the Best Non-Feature Film at the 57th National Awards for best in Indian cinema of 2009. As producer and director, Sourav won the Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal) for "showing effectively that disability is not an impedance to overcome the trials and tribulations of life".
- In 2012, CHAR... the No-Man's Island won the Golden Kapok Award (Best Direction) at GZ DOC, China, Best Documentary Award, ChopShots, Indonesia. It received a Special Mention at Dubai International Film Festival and Special Festival Mention - Jury at Bhopal International Film Festival in 2013.
- It won the Golden Reel Award (Best Documentary) at Tiburon International Film Festival, USA, 2013, Best Feature Documentary & Best Director award for Stylistic Achievement at Social Impact Media Award, (SIMA), USA, 2013, the Student Council Award at the Environmental Film Festival, CINEMAMBIENTE, Torino, Italy, 2013, Best Cinematography Award, International Documentary & Short Film Festival, Kerala, India, 2013, award for second Best Documentary, Best Editor, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Design at Chaya - 13, National Short & Documentary Film Awards, Kerala, 2013, UNICEF Nepal Award, FSA Nepal, 2013, Best Visual Identity (photography / editing), International TV Festival Bar, 2013, Best Feature Prize, El Ojo Cojo, Spain, 2013, Special Mention of the Jury, CineMigrante IFF Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013, Award of Excellence, International Film Festival for Environment, Health and Culture, Indonesia, 2013.
- At the 60th National Awards meant to acknowledge best of Indian cinema in 2012, this film won the Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film. As producer and director, Sourav won two Golden Lotuses (Rajat Kamals).
- In 2014, it received the Best of the Festival Award, CMS VATAVARAN, India and a Jury Special Mention at Cinema Planeta, Mexico. The film was also nominated at CINEMA Fairbindet Award, Berlinale, Germany, TRT Documentary Award, Turkey, and Best Environmental Film of the decade, 2020 GFN Awards.
- Karbala Memoirs won the Golden Award for Best Documentary at the 4th South Asian Short Film Festival in 2021.
Did You Know?
He made Viva Mandela during Nelson Mandela's visit to Kolkata in October 1990. That was shortly after Mandela's release from prison after 27 years. The film recorded his first-ever visit to India where tens of thousands had gathered at Eden Gardens for Mandela's public reception. In this 13-minute-long film, clips of Mandela's anti-apartheid speech were juxtaposed with footage of the torture of people of colour in South Africa. The film was edited by Sudipto Bhowmick. Abhijit Banerjee, Prabir Roy and Debabrata Batabyal had done the camerawork for it. Amar-Sabyasachi's shadowgraph was used in the film too.
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