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Partho Sen-Gupta
Partho Sen-Gupta (also spelt Partho Sen Gupta or Partho Sengupta) is an independent film director and screenwriter who has made films in India, France, and Australia. He has a post-graduate degree in film direction from the FEMIS in France.
Partho Sen-Gupta was born in Mumbai.
He has a postgraduate degree in filmmaking from La Femis in Paris, France.
Sen-Gupta started working in cinema at 17, starting his career as an apprentice in the art department, in the studios of "Bollywood" in Mumbai. He worked with an Indian art director Bijon Dasgupta on the sets of big-budget commercial Hindi films like Saagar and Mr. India among others.
After having spent a few years finishing his apprenticeship, he became assistant art director.[citation needed] In 1988, he worked on his first film as art director or production designer in an Indian art movie called Main Zinda Hoon (I am Alive) directed by Sudhir Mishra.[citation needed] He then set up his design studio, working on numerous advertising films and art movies, designing sets and specialising in real-time SFX. He won a Best Art Director Award in 1989.[citation needed]
He also worked as production designer on the French film Nocturne Indien directed by Alain Corneau and shot in Mumbai.
In 1993, he was selected to do a two-month summer workshop at FEMIS, the French film institute in Paris. During the workshop, he directed his first short film, "La Derniere..." based on Samuel Beckett's radio play Krapp's Last Tape. He was then awarded a three-and-a-half-year full scholarship to study film direction at the same school.
During his film school years, he made four short fiction films Le Cochon, La Partition, Trajet Discontinu, and La Petite Souris which took him to different European film festivals and won awards.
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Partho Sen-Gupta
Partho Sen-Gupta (also spelt Partho Sen Gupta or Partho Sengupta) is an independent film director and screenwriter who has made films in India, France, and Australia. He has a post-graduate degree in film direction from the FEMIS in France.
Partho Sen-Gupta was born in Mumbai.
He has a postgraduate degree in filmmaking from La Femis in Paris, France.
Sen-Gupta started working in cinema at 17, starting his career as an apprentice in the art department, in the studios of "Bollywood" in Mumbai. He worked with an Indian art director Bijon Dasgupta on the sets of big-budget commercial Hindi films like Saagar and Mr. India among others.
After having spent a few years finishing his apprenticeship, he became assistant art director.[citation needed] In 1988, he worked on his first film as art director or production designer in an Indian art movie called Main Zinda Hoon (I am Alive) directed by Sudhir Mishra.[citation needed] He then set up his design studio, working on numerous advertising films and art movies, designing sets and specialising in real-time SFX. He won a Best Art Director Award in 1989.[citation needed]
He also worked as production designer on the French film Nocturne Indien directed by Alain Corneau and shot in Mumbai.
In 1993, he was selected to do a two-month summer workshop at FEMIS, the French film institute in Paris. During the workshop, he directed his first short film, "La Derniere..." based on Samuel Beckett's radio play Krapp's Last Tape. He was then awarded a three-and-a-half-year full scholarship to study film direction at the same school.
During his film school years, he made four short fiction films Le Cochon, La Partition, Trajet Discontinu, and La Petite Souris which took him to different European film festivals and won awards.