2011 Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund
LIST In God’s LandCategory | DMZ Fund |
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Project | In God’s Land |
Director | Pankaj Rishi KUMAR |
Country | India |
Director's Profile | Pankaj graduated from Pune′s FTII (1992), and specialized in Film Editing. After editing documentaries and TV serials, he made his first film [Kumar Talkies]. Subsequently, Pankaj has become a one-man-crew, producing, directing, shooting and editing his own feature-length documentaries. ([Pather Chujaeri], [The Vote], [Gharat], [3 Men and a Bulb], [Punches n Ponytails], and [Seeds of Dissent]). Pankaj’s films have won many awards and been screened at festivals all over the world, including at Berlin, Rotterdam, IDFA, Gothenburg, Yamagata, Busan and Visions du Reel. He was a TA at the first Asian Film Academy (Busan). He has won grants from Hubert Bals, IFA, Jan Vrijman, Gothenburg, Banff, Majlis and Sarai. Pankaj was awarded an Asia Society fellowship at Harvard Asia Centre (2003). He also works as a film curator and teacher. http://kumartalkies.blogspot.com |