Partho Sen-Gupta

Partho SenGupta is a Sydneybased film writer and director He was born in Mumbai in 1965 They worked as Art Director and Production Designer on feature films TV series and commercials in India He studied Film direction at La FEMIS École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de lImage et du Son in Paris His first feature film Let the Wind Blow Hava Aney Dey premiered at the Berlin Int Film Festival His second feature film Sunrise premiered at the Busan IFF and has since been screened at 2015 Tribeca Munich BFI London Sitges Sydney etc It won the Best Film and the Best Cinematography Awards at the 2015 Durban Film Festival Black Tulip for Best Film at the Imagine Film Festival and an Honorable Jury Mention at the Munich Film Festival It was nominated at the 2015 AsiaPacific Screen Academy Awards After its theatrical release in France Germany US China it was acquired by Netflix After living in France for over a decade he now lives and works in Sydney His third feature film Slam set in Sydney Australia premiered at the 2018 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival It was then screened at various film festivals around the world It had a theatrical release in Australia in 2019 The French theatrical release has been cancelled twice due to Covid19 is was reprogrammed for Dec 2021 SenGupta also worked as Senior Lecturer in Directing at the Australian Film Television Radio School AFTRS during 20212023