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Irene Dhar Malik
Irene Dhar Malik
Film editor Irene Dhar Malik is known for her exhaustive body of work that encompasses feature-length fiction, non-fiction, docu series and content for television. The distinguished alumna of the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII) has edited Miriam Chandy Menacherry’s National Award-winning From the Shadows on survivors of child trafficking that also won Irene the MIFF award for best editing in 2024, Natasha Javed’s Indo-Pak documentary titled Partition Stories and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s seven-and-a-half-hour-long documentary on Jiri Menzel and the Czech New Wave, among other works. In 2015, Irene was among the 24 artists who returned their National Awards as ...
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Filmography
- Loknayak (2004)
- Celluloid Man (2012)
- Khasi Hills Community Carbon Project (2012)
- An American in Madras (2013)
- When the Forest is Home (2013)
- An American in Madras (2013)
- Field of Dreams (2014)
- The Immortals (2015)
- Riding on a Sunbeam (2016)
- I Don’t Miss Him (2017)
- Czechmate – In Search of Jiri Menzel (2017)
- Leng Levora Leng (Voice of the Voiceless) (2017)
- Breakpoint (2021)
- Kicking Balls (2022)
- MITA Cares (2022)
- From the Shadows (2023)
- Partition Stories (2024)
- Transition (2024)
(Only non-fiction)
Awards
- In 2013, she won the National Award for editing Celluloid Man for “the skilful interweaving of images from the past and present, juxtaposed seamlessly into a compelling, multi layered narrative.”
- In 2014, she won the IDPA award for editing An American in Madras.
- In 2024, she won the MIFF Best Editing Award for From the Shadows. The citation reads: “Girls go missing – many of them, day in day out – trafficked for money. This documentary throws a light on what is going on, pointing us to activists and victims without exposing them to a voyeuristic eye. Artful editing lets us easily wander from one case to the next, from one journey to another, finding the poignant highlights in the documentary footage to create a masterful dramaturgy”.
Did You Know?
Irene has a flair for languages and has been involved in scriptwriting. She has already scripted Brahmanand Singh’s Riding on a Sunbeam, Onir’s Bas Ek Pal and, Kalpana Lajmi’s documentaries on the North-East. She also wrote the script for some episodes of Saturday Suspense. "I have been a co-writer, along with Onir, for I am Onir, & I am Gay (2022), for which we received the Likho Award presented by the Humsafar Trust. My short fiction has been published in New Woman. I have a short story published in the Afro-Asian anthology titled Behind the Shadows. I have also written features for Deccan Herald and contributed three short stories to Ripples, an anthology of short stories by Indian women authors,” she said. In 2024, she started working on a script for Anticlock Films.
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