SOUMYA MUKHOPADHYAY, Director, Cherrypix Movies Pvt. Ltd., India

A former market researcher at Kantar, world’s leading research, data and insight company, Soumya Mukhopadhyay left his full time job to pursue his primary passion of film making and experimenting with different forms of audio visual art. In the past few years, he has donned several hats; establishing and managing Cherrypix Movies; India’s leading boutique production and post-production studio, producing a spate of experimental fiction and non-fiction films and directing his own short and music video. He manages a blog titled Marginal Rambling, where he shares his musings on poetry, art, culture, cinema, religion, subverted rituals and practices. His film ‘This Summer In Waiting’ was screened at Beijing International Short Film Festival, 2019.

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Cherrypix Movies Pvt Ltd is India’s leading boutique audio-visual production and post-production studio based in Kolkata. It thrives on conceptualising and executing informed, exciting, visually compelling, innovative contemporary works. Established in 2012, by a group of film and management professionals it provides a one-stop shop for digital cinema ranging from camera rental, colour grading, sound design/ mixing, content development and curation. Over the course of past seven years it has invested close to Euros 700,000 in the making of films that break the boundaries of imagination in South Asian cinema. The notable works include ‘Metamorphosis’ (2020), ‘Glossary of Nonhuman Lovers’ (2019) and ‘Bhalobasar Shohor’ (2017).