IFFI 2017 Handbook

Shiny Jacob Benjamin has been a documentary director since 1999.
Earlier, she has worked with Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhumi,
leading Newspapers in Malayalam as a features writer. Later, she
joined Asianet, the first satellite Television channel in Malayalam. She
has also worked with Indiavision, first news channel in Malayalam
and has worked as chief producer with TV Channel Jaihind & Jaihind
Middle East. She won 20 prestigious awards including 2 National
Awards and 7 Kerala State Awards for her documentaries. She has
been a jury member on FFK International Film Festival and the 28th
Indian Panorama-IFFI jury. She has worked as Assistant Director for
a Kamal Hassan film under the directorial guidance of T. K Rajeev
Kumar and as the Associate Director for the 35th National Games
2015 held in Kerala.
Shiny Jacob Benjamin
Tinni Mitra is an editor. During her Masters course on Film Studies in
Jadavpur University in Kolkata her interest for filmmaking grew and
later she joined Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute. She is a National
Awardee for Best Editing for her work in her film-school diploma
Germ. Tinni shifted to Mumbai in 2009. Her first feature film Mumbai
Cha Raja went to Toronto International and Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
Her film as editor The Seventh Walk directed by Amit Dutta was the
Closing Film of Cinema XXI section, Rome Film Festival, 2013.
Based on the works of Indian painter Mr. Paramjit Singh, this film
was also selected in Documentary Fortnights by Museum of Modern
Arts (MOMA) in 2014. Tinni has edited documentaries produced by
PSBT and Films Division and ITVS. She has attended Berlinale Talent
Campus in 2015 as part of the Editing Studio.
Tinni Mitra
Tuhinabha Majumdar
Tuhinabha Majumdar has worked as a writer, editor and director
in the films and television industry for the last nineteen years.
His film Aamaar Katha: Story Of Binodini, based on the legendary
Bengali actress Binodini has received two Rajat Kamal Awards
for Best Biographical and Historical Reconstruction film and Best
Cinematography (Non-fiction) at the 62nd National Film Awards,
2014. He has also received the Golden Conch for the Best Fiction
film and the Best Film of the Festival award in MIFF, for Midnight
Bioscope and the Silver Award at the 11th Indian Documentary
Producers’ Award for Excellence for City Within The City a PSBT
documentary. Besides editing his own films he has edited Tamil
feature film Sengadal (Black Sea), Kolkata, the City of Memories
(a non-fiction television series on Kolkata in 21 episodes), Two Or
Three Things I Know About Alleys, Neeldarpan and Sarat Chandra
Chatterjee. He has served as a jury in the 3rd NSFFI, 2015.
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