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Apurba Kishore Bir was born in Orissa in 1948. He Graduated from F.T.I.I in the discipline of
Cinematography in 1969. Since then he worked in a number of advertising, short and
documentaries and received a several of awards. Mr Apurba Kishore Bir received the BEST
CINEMATOGRAPHY award for the documentary “MAA OORU”. He received CLIO
award from America for the short film ‘BORN EQUAL’ and CANNES NATIONAL award
for the short film ‘ NO SMOKING ’ . Three times, he received the NATIONAL AWARDS for
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. Subsequently he started scripting and directing feature films in Oriya
language and a couple in Hindi language as well. Mr Bir received six National Awards for best film. Feature
film scripted and directed by him are : ADI MIMANSA, LAVANYA PREETI, ARANYAKA, SHESHA
DRUSHTI, NANDAN, BAAJA, HAMARI BETI. All these films have been shown in various International
Film Festivals. Currently Mr Apurba Kishore Bir is a visiting external expert and guest lecturer at F.T.I.I. and
S.R.F.T.I.I.

Mr Goran Radovanovic was born in Belgrade in 1957. He Graduated in Art History from
Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy in 1982. Between 1977 and 1980 he sojourned in Munich on
a scholarship awarded by the Goethe Institute. After his return to Belgrade, he has worked as
writer and director of both feature and documentary films. He is a member of the European
Film Academy, Berlin and Film Artists Association of Serbia. He worked as guest professor
at EICTV (International Film and Television School), San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba,
Oberlin College, Ohio, USA, ESAP – Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Portugal, DFFB, Berlin, Germany.
He has given numerous master classes at numerous film festivals in Europe, USA and Latin Amerca.
Besides, he acted as a tutor at numerus workshops organized at numerous film festivals by EDN (European
Documentaru Network. Retrospective of documentary films of Goran Radovanovic took place in Barcelona
2006, Mexico City 2007, Havana 2010, Vienna 2011. Goran Radovanovic's films have been shown in the
official programmes of ex-Yugoslav and numerous international film festivals

Dr. Biju (BijukumarDamodaran), is a Director who has won multiple national and
international awards. He is a Homoeopathic Medical Doctor and a self-taught filmmaker. He
debuted with Saira (2005). It was the opening film in the section Cinema of the World at the
Cannes Film Festival 2007 .The film was also selected to Indian Panorama.
VeettilekkullaVazhi (The Way Home)(2010), his third film received India's National film
award for the best Malayalam regional film. AkashathinteNiram (Color of the Sky) his fourth
feature was world premiered at Shanghai Film Festival 2012 in official competition. The film also selected
to Indian Panorama. Perariyathavar (Names Unknown) (2013), his fifth film won two of India's national
film awards for the year 2013, for the Best actor and for the best film on Environment preservation. The film
world premiered at Montreal Film festival in 2014. Dr. Biju also served as jury member for India's National
film awards 2012, India’s Oscar selection jury member 2015, 30th Fajr International film festival, Tehran,
Iran 2012, International Film Festival of Kerala 2011. His sixth film VALIYA CHIRAKULLA
PAKSHIKAL (BIRDS WITH LARGE WINGS) has been selected to Indian Panorama at International film
festival of India 2015 and was nominated to the competition for UNESCO award. The film specially invited
to screening at United Nations, Geneva in association with United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

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