Subhrajit Mitra
Subhrajit Mitra is a Bengali film documentary director of India.
Career
Born on 18th January, 1976, Subhrajit Mitra started his career at the age of 18 as a documentary director for Doordarshan. He completed his post graduate diploma in Computer science and engineering and a part-time two years diploma course in Film-direction from National Institute of Film and Fine Arts.
His debut feature film was Mon Amour: Shesher Kobita Revisited in 2008. Mitra has directed 5 feature films including Aagunpakhi and Kakababu trilogy by Sunil Ganguly. Vorai, a 52 mins film, was Mitra’s first fiction work, which has won 4 major awards across the globe.
Earlier in his career, prior to Mon Amour, he scripted and directed six documentaries for Doordarshan, the national channel, a fifty-two episodes of a documentary-series on National network with joint production by ISRO [Indian space research organization], two corporate documentaries for BM Birla heart research center, a corporate documentary for ONGC and a promotional docu-fiction on conservation of nature for Forest Department of West Bengal. Subhrajit researched, scripted and Directed “WANGALA” – a documentary film on GARO tribes in the North east of the Himalayan foothill range, it was premiered with very much appreciation in ‘Document 2 film Festival’ (September 2004) in GLASGOW, Scotland, U.K. and Awarded as ‘Special Mention’ film in the ‘Golden Gate Fiction & Documentary Film Festival’ (December 2004) in San Francisco, USA and as ‘Integral Realization’ in the ‘Honolulu International Film Festival’. He was an empanelled filmmaker of National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel and History Channel. He has directed a series on the lesser-known tribes of the Himalayas, titled “Himalayas- unsung, unseen” for National Geographic Channel.