Executive Council
Sankhajit Biswas
Known professionally as Sankha
Executive Council
Film editor, filmmaker, and educator — known professionally as Sankha — whose work has travelled extensively through international film festivals.
Biography
Sankhajit Biswas, known professionally as Sankha, studied Editing at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute from 2002 to 2005. He also participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2010.
His editorial credits include fiction and documentary films that have been awarded and screened at major international festivals including Berlin, Toronto, Busan, Rotterdam, BFI London, Moscow, Göteborg, Hong Kong, IDFA, DokLeipzig, Yamagata, and CPH:DOX.
His directorial debut, Dui Dhuranir Golpo / In-between Days, is a documentary about the transgender community of Kolkata. It was screened at CPH:DOX, Yamagata, and DocPoint Helsinki and received the Best Documentary Award at the Kolkata International Film Festival in 2014.
His second documentary, The Wind in the Maruwa Field, produced by Films Division, Government of India, was selected for the Indian Panorama and screened at IFFI Goa and other festivals.
His feature-length documentary Hridoy Bosot – A Home for My Heart premiered at Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2022 and received a Jury Special Mention at Signs Film Festival Kerala.
He teaches Editing as a Professor at the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute.