Tanmay Chowdhary
Directing
Biography
Tanmay was born in India in the winter of 1990. He is an award winning Photographer, Cinematographer and Filmmaker with a Masters degree in Film from the University of Southern California. His photography work has been published by various magazines and publications around the world. The films he has shot have premiered in international film festivals, including Camerimage, Directors Guild of America and Festival du Nouveau Cinema. He received the outstanding achievement in Cinematography award at both the First Look and Tide Film Festival.
Known For
During the Sankranti festival celebrations, a matriarch and her housekeeper confront solitude through the intimacy of each other’s company.
O’Sey Balamma
After surviving a brutal amputation during the Civil War, James Hanger returns home emotionally and physically broken. In order to survive his depression, he designs and builds the first prosthetic leg with knee and ankle joints.
Hanger's Limb
“After So Long // बरसों बाद” is a visual poetry set in Mumbai (India) and voiced by Simha and their parents to symbolise their connection with each other; a walkabout through time and memories. Directed by Varsha Panikar, the film takes inspiration from vintage-home-movie culture to create a contemplative and nostalgic vignette of an artist’s spiritual journey out of the darkness and into the light.
After So Long
Overcome with grief, a rural woodworker builds a coffin to join his wife.
A Craftsman
In a near future in a world deprived of closeness of each other through technological communication advancements, a small boy full of curiosity and need to learn the world that surrounds him goes on a journey to learn the value of interpersonal communication through
Connected
A ten year-old kid tries his best to salvage what is left of his family when his home in Nepal is torn apart by an earthquake.
Babu
On a rainy afternoon, three adolescent girls rehearse a dance that takes on a life of its own, somewhere between innocence and awareness.
Finte
"Color of November" is a contemporary portrait of the relationship between two young women in the month of November in Poland. It is a hybrid narrative-doc short that explores cross border perspectives on the relationship between identity, space and memory in the post globalization era.
Color of November
Two young women from a small village discuss the recent, mysterious vanishing of Leela. Is there any truth in the rumours about her death? Did she really take her own life? Or did she manage to escape and make it to the city? Roaming through their surroundings where despair is palpable, they wonder if they’ll ever find a way out themselves.
Leela
Childhood friends Satakshi and Madhyama reunite at a celebration during Durga Puja. As the night progresses, their feelings for one another are revealed to us through words of the past and the future, taking the audience on a beautiful Ferris wheel ride of love, hopes, and dreams.