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| name = Aditya Vikram Sengupta<br />
| image =<br />
| caption = Aditya Vikram Sengupta<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1983|9|6}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], India<br />
| death_date = <br />
| death_place = <br />
| occupation = [[Film Director]], [[Film producer|Producer]], [[Screenwriter]], [[Cinematographer]], [[Editor]]<br />
| spouse = Jonaki Bhattacharya<br />
| yearsactive = 2010–present<br />
| children = <br />
| website = forfilmsindia.com<br />
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'''Aditya Vikram Sengupta''' (born 6 September 1983) is an Indian film director, cinematographer and graphic designer. His first film ''[[Asha Jaoar Majhe]]'' or ''Labour of Love'', released in 2014 which premiered at the 11th Venice Days section of the Venice International Film Festival,<ref name=SD1>{{cite news | url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/venice-days-unveils-2014-line-up/5075481.article | title=Venice Days unveils 2014 line-up | date=22 July 2014 | first=Michael | last=Rosser | work=Screen Daily | accessdate=2 September 2018 }}</ref><ref name=VDF>OFFICIAL Website of Venice Days festival http://www.venice-days.com/2014/index.asp?lang=eng</ref> won the National Award for Best Debut in India.mother name sharmila sengupta father name tridib kumar sengupta big brother name trilokjit sengupta<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Aditya Vikram Sengupta was born in [[Kolkata]] in 1983. He attended St. Xavier's Collegiate School and post-school, Aditya was accepted at the prestigious [[National Institute of Design]] in Paldi, Ahmedabad. After NID, he worked at [[Channel V India|Channel [V]]] for a number of years as a promo and creative director before turning director full-time.<br />
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== Career ==<br />
His first directorial venture was the Bengali film ''[[Asha Jaoar Majhe]]'' (English: Labour of Love) premiered at the 11th Venice Days at the [[Venice Film Festival|Venice International Film Festival]] on 4 September 2014,<ref name=VDF /><ref name=SD1 /> At the 62nd [[National Film Awards]], it won the [[Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director|Indira Gandhi Award]] for Best First Film of a Director and Best [[Audiography]].<br />
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Aditya's second film ''[[Jonaki (film)|Jonaki]]'' was an international co-production between India-France and Singapore. Catherine Dussart Productions of France and Samir Sarkar's Magic Hour Films were co-producers of ''Jonaki''. Shortly after the festival run of ''Jonaki'', it was available for streaming on Netflix.<br />
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''[[Once Upon a Time in Calcutta]]'' (previously titled ''Memories and My Mother'') is Aditya's third film and his first collaboration with Turkish director of photography, [[Gökhan Tiryaki|Gokhan Tiryaki]]. Filmed in 2019, ''Once Upon A Time in Calcutta'' has been selected for 78th [[Venice Film Festival]] 2021 in the Orizzonti Competition. The film had its North American premiere at the [[New Directors/New Films Festival|New Directors New Films]] [[Museum of Modern Art|MoMA]] in 2022 before screening and winning awards at other festivals in the US.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Correspondent |first=Our |title=Shankar’s Fairies, Once Upon A Time In Calcutta to be screened at New Directors/New Films |url=https://www.cinestaan.com/articles/2022/mar/30/33856/shankar-s-fairies-once-upon-a-time-in-calcutta-to-be-screened-at-new-directors-new-films |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Cinestaan}}</ref><br />
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According to ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]],'' Aditya's follow up film, ''Birthmark,'' a five country co-production between India, France, Norway, Luxembourg and Denmark, which was initially part of HAF Hong Kong Film Financing Forum, the Venice Gap Financing Market at the Venice Production Bridge and received production support from Luxembourg Film Fund and the [[Danish Film Institute]] was shelved because of reasons not disclosed by the production.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramachandran |first=Naman |last2=Ramachandran |first2=Naman |date=2022-04-14 |title=India’s Venice-Winning For Films Reveals Future Slate (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/asia/for-films-production-slate-1235232551/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Shackleton2021-01-18T01:00:00+00:00 |first=Liz |title=HAF unveils line-up of 29 projects for 2021 virtual edition |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/haf-unveils-line-up-of-29-projects-for-2021-virtual-edition/5156270.article |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Screen |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Film Fund Luxembourg announces the beneficiaries of its latest round of funding |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/395756/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Cineuropa - the best of european cinema |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-02 |title=Biennale Cinema 2021 {{!}} Selected projects of the Venice Gap-Financing Market / New edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market |url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/selected-projects-venice-gap-financing-market-new-edition-book-adaptation-rights-market |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=La Biennale di Venezia |language=en}}</ref><br />
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Aditya is developing three projects under his home production banner, For Films. First is ''Death of an Elephant'' based on a Bengali author [[Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay|Tarashankar Bandopadhyay]]'s short story. The other two projects are ''Mandrake,'' a film on magic in Kolkata and an untitled documentary on [[Hindi cinema|Bollywood]] looked through a socio-cultural lens.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramachandran |first=Naman |last2=Ramachandran |first2=Naman |date=2022-04-14 |title=India’s Venice-Winning For Films Reveals Future Slate (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/asia/for-films-production-slate-1235232551/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> <br />
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Aditya is married to Jonaki Bhattacharya, who also works with him as an Art Director on all of his projects. <br />
== Filmography ==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
!Year<br />
!Title<br />
!Cast<br />
!Production Companies<br />
!Director<br />
!Writer<br />
!Producer<br />
!Cinematographer<br />
!Editor<br />
!Notes<br />
!{{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}<br />
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|2014<br />
!''[[Asha Jaoar Majhe]]''<br />
|[[Ritwick Chakraborty]], [[Basabdatta Chatterjee]]<br />
|For Films<br />
|Yes<br />
|Yes<br />
|Yes<br />
|Yes<br />
|Yes<br />
|Cinematography along with Mahendra Shetty<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|2018<br />
!''[[Jonaki (film)|Jonaki]]'' <br />
|[[Lolita Chatterjee]], [[Jim Sarbh]], Ratnabali Bhattacharjee<br />
|For Films, Magic Hour Films<br />
|Yes<br />
|Yes<br />
|Yes<br />
|Yes<br />
|Yes<br />
|Cinematography along with Mahendra Shetty<br />
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/becoming-a-firefly-national-award-winning-asha-jaoar-majhe-5439089/|title=Becoming a Firefly|date=2018-11-11|website=The Indian Express|language=en-IN|access-date=2019-08-23}}</ref><br />
|-<br />
|2021<br />
! style="background:#ffc;" |''[[Once Upon A Time In Calcutta]]''<br />
|[[Sreelekha Mitra]], [[Bratya Basu]], [[Anirban Chakraborty]]<br />
|For Films, Catherine Dussart Productions, DUOFilm As<br />
|Yes<br />
|Yes<br />
|Yes<br />
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|Yes<br />
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|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/sujan-sreelekha-and-bratya-in-aditya-vikrams-next/articleshow/67611941.cms|title=Sujan, Sreelekha and Bratya in Aditya Vikram’s next? - Times of India|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2019-08-23}}</ref><br />
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== Awards and festival selections ==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+<br />
!Year<br />
!Film <br />
!Awards<br />
|-<br />
|2014<br />
!''[[Asha Jaoar Majhe]]''<br />
|WORLD PREMIERE<br />
'''[[Venice Film Festival|Venice International Film Festival]] (Venice Days)'''<br />
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AWARDS<br />
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'''[[National Film Awards|National Film Award]]''' - WINNER Golden Lotus Award for Best Debut Film of a Director & WINNER Silver Lotus Award for Best Sound Design '''[[Venice Film Festival|Venice International Film Festival]] (Venice Days)''' - WINNER Best Debut Director <br />
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'''[[BFI London Film Festival]]''' - WINNER Honorable Mention <br />
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'''[[New York Indian Film Festival]]''' - WINNER Best Film, WINNER Best Director, WINNER Best Script <br />
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'''[[Marrakech International Film Festival|Marrakesh International Film Festival]]''' - WINNER Best Director <br />
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'''[[Jaipur International Film Festival]]''' - WINNER Best Film <br />
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'''[[Abu Dhabi Film Festival]]''' - WINNER Jury Special Mention<br />
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FESTIVALS<br />
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'''[[International Film Festival Rotterdam|International Film Festival of Rotterdam]]''' | '''[[Busan International Film Festival|Busan Film Festival]]''' | '''[[Kolkata International Film Festival]]''' | '''[[Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles|Los Angeles Indian Film Festival]]''' | '''[[Warsaw Film Festival|Warsaw International Film Festival]]''' | '''[[Shanghai International Film Festival]]''' | '''[[Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival]]'''<br />
|-<br />
|2018<br />
!''[[Jonaki (film)|Jonaki]]''<br />
|WORLD PREMIERE<br />
'''[[International Film Festival Rotterdam|International Film Festival of Rotterdam]]'''<br />
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AWARDS<br />
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'''[[Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image|MAMI Mumbai Film Festival]]''' - WINNER Silver Gateway Award & Gender Equality Award<br />
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FESTIVALS<br />
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'''[[Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles|Los Angeles Indian Film Festival]]''' | '''[[Kolkata International Film Festival]]''' <br />
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!''[[Once Upon A Time In Calcutta]]''{{dagger|alt=Film has not yet been released}}<br />
|SUPPORTED BY<br />
[[Cinéfondation|Cinefondation ''L'Atelier'']] - Cannes Film Festival<br />
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[[Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée|CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée)]]<br />
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Sorfond<br />
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[[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC Film Bazaar]] <br />
|}<br />
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