Suman Ghosh (director)
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Suman Ghosh (born 1972)[1] is a film director,[2] and a professor of economics at Florida Atlantic University.[3]
Education
Suman Ghosh gained his B.Sc. in economics from Presidency College, Calcutta and his M.A. in economics from the Delhi School of Economics. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at Cornell University in 2002. His research interests are public economics, personnel economics, and development economics.[4]
Career
Suman Ghosh is a National Award-winning Indian filmmaker who has made Eleven feature films and two documentary film. He had his film training at Cornell University in New York. His first feature film Footsteps, starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Nandita Das, won 2 National Awards in 2008. It was shown at numerous film festivals, including Vancouver, Karlovy Vary and IAAC New York. His second feature film Dwando, also starring Soumitra Chatterjee, was a part of the Indian Panorama at IFFI Goa in 2009. His next feature film Nobel Thief, starring the Indian megastar Mithun Chakraborty, was world premiered at the Busan IFF and was an official selection at the BFI, London Film festival. The film received the "Best Indian Film" award at the Bengaluru International Film Festival in 2012. His latest feature film Shyamal Uncle Turns off the Lights has had a warm reception from critics and audiences all over the world. It was world premiered at the Busan Film Festival in South Korea and had its North American Premiere at the MoMA, NY. It has been shown at a number of international film festivals, including BUSAN IFF, Mumbai FF, Santa Barbara IFF, ReelWorld Film Festival (Toronto), Delhi 010 Digital Film Festival, Freiburger Film Forum (Germany), Indian Film Festival in Stuttgart, Germany and 10th Green Film Festival (Seoul). It won the "Outstanding International Feature Award" at the ReelWorld Film festival in Toronto. The film, based on a true incident, traces the journey of Shyamal Uncle, an eighty-year-old retiree, as he wades through an apathetic system with a seemingly trivial goal – turn off the street lights near his home which are left on even during the day. Colin Burrows is the executive producer and it is being distributed in North America by Global Film Initiative.
Vincent Malausa at Cahiers du Cinéma calls it "extraordinary magic …..leads to one of the most beautiful happy endings we have ever seen" and "The impeccable rhythm and the art with which the director deals with new twists….invite the audience to understand that a true epic is told in the small adventure." Another reviewer notes that "With echoes of Kurosawa’s ‘
His next film Kadambari, starring
Filmography
- Podokkhep (2006)
- Dwando (2009)[5]
- Nobel Chor (2012)
- Shyamal Uncle Turns off the Lights (2013)
- Kadambari (2015)
- Peace Haven (2016)
- Mi Amor (2017)
- The Argumentative Indian (2017) [Documentary]
- Basu Poribar (2018)
- Aadhaar (2019)[6]
- Searching for Happiness... (2021)
- Kabuliwala (2023)
- Parama:A journey with Aparna Sen (2024) [Documentary]
- The Scavenger of Dreams (2024), world premiere at BIFF on 5 October.[7]
- Puratawn (2025)
Awards
- National Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali for the film Podokkhep (2008)[2]
- Best Indian Film Award at Bengaluru Film Festival for the film Nobel Chor (2012)[2]
- Best International Film Award at Reel World Film Festival Toronto Shyamal Uncle Turns off the Lights (2012)[2]
- Best Film Award at Washington DC South Asian Film Festival for the film Kadambari (2015)[2]
- Best Film Award (Critics Choice) at the Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival for the film Peace Haven (2017)[2]
References
- ^ "Ghosh, Suman, 1972–". Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f "Suman Ghosh Filmography". Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ^ "Florida Atlantic University, College of Business: Faculty & Research, Suman Ghosh". Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ "Suman Ghosh: biography". Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ "A typical arty film". Telegraph Calcutta. 27 July 2009. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ^ "A typical arty film". Times of India. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ Ruman Ganguly (11 September 2023). "Suman Ghosh returns to Busan International Film Festival". Times of India. Retrieved 11 September 2023.