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Tinni Mitra
Tinni Mitra
An editing graduate from the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (SRFTI), Tinni Mitra is currently based out of Mumbai. Tinni comes from a family that took an interest in the arts. Her father was keen on theatre. But gravitating towards cinema was an accidental act in her life. After doing her graduation in history from Bethune College, she wanted to check out the module for Jadavpur University’s Film Studies department when she went to collect the admission form for pursing master’s degree. “The idea was to see what was happening there ...
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Filmography
- Liquid Borders (2015)
- The Man who Dwarfed the Mountains (2015)
- Until Space Remains: The Dalai Lama & India (2016)
- Change The Story (2016)
- Amoli – Priceless (2018)
- Anonymous (2020)
(Only non-fiction)
Awards
- Germ, her film school diploma film, won two National Awards including the Best Editing in Non-feature category for the year 2010.The citation mentioned that the award was given to Mitra “for the abstract visualisation and endearing black &white tones” that are “very effectively punctuated with fine editing”. In the process, the editing “maintains a very subtle and flowing rhythm and pace to carry forward the cinematic work”.
Did You Know?
In 2001-2002, she joined the Esperanto classes of iconic playwright Badal Sircar. Esperanto is an artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages. It retains the structure of these languages and has the advantage of grammatical regularity and ease of pronunciation. "I have grown up watching his third theatre and have also attended his workshop as a student of Kamala Girls. Later on, I heard about the Esperanto language and also came to know that he taught this world language too. This whole exercise was a fruit of his passion for highlighting the importance of language. Along with two of my friends, we requested him to teach us. We were fortunate enough that he agreed. Till this day, I have fond memories of visiting his Pyari Sarkar Road residence to learn this language," she told BFA.
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