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Shankhajeet De is a filmmaker and script writer. He writes scripts in diverse formats such as feature films, short films, documentaries, museum guides as well as Son-et-Lumiere installation projects. His debut feature length documentary film “In the Shadow of Time'' on Ravana Chhaya shadow puppetry tradition of Odisha won the National Film award as the best film on art and culture. He served as a jury member at IFFI, National film awards as well as in India's official entry for the Oscars. He has just finished a feature length documentary film on the Ramaleela tradition in Odisha using a multi-sited ethnographic method. Shankhajeet set up the filmmaking department at Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication, New Delhi and taught research, screenplay & script writing and direction for over eight years. He also intermittently contributes articles and journals on traditional artistic practices of India.
Graduate in Film making
He worked on several projects on issues of knowledge processes, their transfer
mechanisms, gender rights, ethical business practices and right to livelihood. His work intrinsically
uses an ethnographic approach through which he situates people’s struggles in their immediate
surroundings and the larger society at the same time. He is an empanelled filmmaker for Unicef.
He has written scripts for documentary films for various agencies such as UNDP, UNFPA, ILO and
ministries of Government of India and Odisha from 1998 till 2003. During this time, he worked with
various TV channels such as Doordarshan, Zee TV, Star TV and History Channel to write and
direct non-fiction programme content.
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