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Production
Production
Production
Sales & Festivals
Irfana MAJUMDAR
Director, Producer
Irfana Majumdar is the founding Artistic Director of the NIRMAN Theatre and Film Studio in Varanasi, India. She studied Performance at the University of Chicago, and has been awarded fellowships for her commitment to themes of social justice and process of collaborative creation. She now directs and teaches, creates solo performances, and program annual arts events, residencies, and internships. At NIRMAN’s International Education Program, she teaches and mentors undergraduate and post-graduate students. She also leads the vision committee for the development of NIRMAN’s riverside campus, which is a site of arts, education, research, and environmental change. She has directed three documentaries.
SHANKAR’S FAIRIES is her debut film, world premiered at Locarno Film Festival.
FILMOGRAPHY
Shankar’s Fairies
(International Sales: ASIAN SHADOWS)
2021, fiction feature, 93’
- Locarno IFF 2021
Cineasti del Presente
In competition
- TIFF 2021
Industry Selects
- Busan IFF 2021
A Window on Asian Cinema
- Chicago IFF 2021
New Directors Competition
- HKAFF 2021
New Talent Competition
- Nantes 3 Continents 2021
Montgolfière d’Argent Award
- Göteborg IFF 2022
Ingmar Bergman Competition
- Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2022
Grand Jury Honorable Mention
- Dallas Fort Worth South Asian FF 2022
Best Feature Award
- New Horizon 2022
The Third Eye section
- Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival "Zerkalo" 2022
Competition
Children Playing Gods
2008, documentary, 61’
Anupriya
2006, documentary, 27’
Images of Indian Children
2005, documentary, 40’
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