Key Teaching Staff
Nilotpal Majumdar, Kolkata (INDIA)
School: ZeLIG - School for Documentary, Television and New MediaField of Teaching: Editing / Post Production
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Major Achievements: Postgraduate Diploma in Cinema with specialization in Editing from Film & Television Institute of India, Pune.
Presently working as Professor and Head, Department of Editing, Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata, the premier film school under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India.
Head of Docedge the annual Asian Documentary Training and Pitching Forum organized by Satyajit Ray Film &Television Institute in association with European Documentary Network.
Recently concluded two-year ‘Senior Fellowship for Outstanding Artiste’ on Factual Narrative with relation to other indigenous narrative traditions of India awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.
Apart from writing short stories in Bangla, I do also write articles on cinema.
Have been making documentary and fiction films since 1990 and participated in various international film festivals.
Awarded with National Award for the film Metal Storm’96 in 1997.
Director of a short fiction film (30 minutes) produced by Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (2009).
