1. Partho Sen-Gupta is an independent film director and screenwriter.
12 Facts About Partho Sen-Gupta
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Partho Sen-Gupta is an Australian and French dual citizen, of Indian origin.
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Partho Sen-Gupta has a post-graduate degree in Film Direction from the FEMIS.
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Partho Sen-Gupta has been working in cinema since the age of seventeen, starting his career as an apprentice in the art department, in the studios of "Bollywood" in Mumbai.
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Partho Sen-Gupta worked with an Indian art director Bijon Dasgupta on the sets of big-budget commercial Hindi films like Saagar and Mr India among others.
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Partho Sen-Gupta then set up his design studio, working on numerous advertising films and art movies, designing sets and specializing in real-time SFX.
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Partho Sen-Gupta won the Best Art Director Award in 1989.
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Partho Sen-Gupta worked as production designer on the French film Nocturne Indien directed by Alain Corneau and shot in Mumbai.
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Partho Sen-Gupta was then awarded a three-and-a-half-year full scholarship to study film direction at the same school.
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In 2017, Partho Sen-Gupta wrote and directed his first Australian feature film Slam.
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Partho Sen-Gupta lectured for the Masters in Directing at the Australian Film, Television, Radio School AFTRS from 2021 to 2023.
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Partho Sen-Gupta signed an open letter published in Liberation demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages.