21st Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2019 : 6-10 Dec, Madurai
Retrospective & Master Class: Chandita Mukherjee
Chandita Mukherjee
film maker, science communicator, researcher, teacher, team builder, traveller
Chandita Mukherjee has been making documentary and short fiction films since 1975. Born in Tokyo, she grew up in Japan, India, Poland and the United States, returning to India as a young adult. A graduate of Delhi University in Sociology, she did her post-graduate studies in Cinema Direction at the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.
From her student days, she originated a number of projects centred on communicating science-technology-society issues to the public. Among these is Bharat ki Chhap, on the history of science and technology on the Indian subcontinent. This series of 13 films of 50 minutes each, was made by a full-time team that researched, scripted and carried out the production from 1985 to 1989 with the guidance of leading scientists and historians. The series was telecast to critical acclaim on the national network in 1989.
Her awards include:
Bharat ki Chhap was awarded the French international award for science communication, the Prix Jules Verne in 1989.
Ravi J. Matthai Fellowship for social communications of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, 1989-91.
Rajat Kamal, National Award for best short fiction film, for Totanama, the Twelfth Night, an episode of the medieval story cycle Tuti-nameh, produced by the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, 1992.
Rajat Kamal, the National Award for best scientific film of 1994 for Another way of learning. The film was also awarded the Rajat Kamal for best audiography in a non-feature film, 1994.
Special Jury Award of the Rashtriya Vigyan Chalchitra Mela, of Vigyan Prasar of Govt of India, for Maths for Sum or Maths for All? The film highlights experiences in making mathematics accessible to children across India, 2014.
Best Documentary in the one hour category at the 2nd Asian Short Film Festival, 2019, in Kolkata, for Displacement & Resilience: women Iive for a new day. The experience of women in conflict zones, their enforced migration and the experience of exile and resettlement is the subject of this film.
Chandita has travelled extensively across the subcontinent, and has an intimate knowledge of different cultures and environments and an ear for languages. She is a trainer and organiser of meetings, workshops, and training courses working with voluntary groups and institutions involved in communication, development and educational work in various parts of India.
At present she heads Comet Media Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to the making of educational communications in a range of media.
Chandita Mukherjee will take part in the film festival on 8-10 Dec 2019.
She will present her films and will conduct her Master Class.
She will present her films and will conduct her Master Class.
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