Shaunak Sen

Cinévesture International Film Festival, Chandigarh: Vikramaditya Motwane on a good story being the best risk mitigation, his stuck documentary Indi(r)a's Emergency, Black Warrant success and why showrunner & multiple-producer models work.

Berlinale ‘Shadowbox (Baksho Bondi)’ review: Tillotama Shome pulls punches to power this Bengali drama on mothers & Others

75th Berlinale: Shome, in cinematographer Saumyananda Sahi & film editor Tanushree Das’s directorial debut Baksho Bondi (Shadowbox), competing in the new Perspectives segment, eternalises the lower-middle-class working woman, invisibilised mothers & mental health on screen as Chandan Bisht puts on a devastating show.

National Award winner Miriam Chandy Menacherry: ‘I belong to a generation that began the new wave of Indian documentary cinema’

70th National Film Awards: Miriam Chandy Menacherry has won the Best Non-Feature Film Direction for her documentary film 'From the Shadows', on missing girls and girl child sex trafficking. She talks about making her ‘toughest film’ and the documentary movement in India.

Shaunak Sen’s 'All That Breathes', Vinay Shukla’s Ravish Kumar-starrer 'While We Watched' win Peabody Awards in Documentary category

'All That Breathes' and 'While We Watched' are the second and third Indian films to win a Peabody, after Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s 'Writing With Fire' bagged the award in 2023. 'All That Breathes' and 'Writing With Fire' were nominated for the Oscars in 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Oscar Predictions 2024: Who will win the Best Documentary Feature Film?

Last year at the Oscars, the documentary 'Navalny' bagged the top prize. The Russian Opposition leader died in prison last month. This year, Ukraine's '20 Days in Mariupol' might take home the said award at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday.

Oscars 2024: When two former JNU students were vying for the same Oscar award last year

Two former students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi were both nominees for the 2023 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

All That Breathes’ co-cinematographer Riju Das: ‘Shaunak, the editors were three kites hovering over a landfill of footages, carefully choosing’

Riju Das, one-third of the cinematographers on Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes', has won the Best Documentary Award at the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards. In this interview, Das talks about shooting the Oscar-nominated documentary, which missed out on the Academy Award that went to 'Navalny'.

'All That Breathes' and the evolution of the Oscars documentary feature category

What the attention to ‘All That Breathes’ means for documentary filmmaking in India and the world.

Oscars nominations 2023 | Four reasons why ‘All That Breathes’ should win Best Documentary award

The 95th Oscars nominations have been announced, and for the second time in a row, India will be represented in the Best Documentary Feature competition as Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes' wins a nomination. The final results will be announced on March 12. Keep an eye out for the birds

Oscar nominations 2023: 'All that Breathes' from India gets nod for Documentary Feature Film

'All That Breathes' is also nominated for a BAFTA Award. It previously won the 'World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary' at this year's Sundance Film Festival

Oscar nomination 2023 | 'All That Breathes' wins nomination, raises hopes for the birds, the brothers and Indians

The Wildlife Rescue hospital for birds in Delhi that is the focus of the Oscar-nominated documentary, 'All That Breathes', needs support to upgrade treatment and care.

Cannes Film Festival: India's next generation of film-makers takes a seat at the high table of world cinema

A film school production and a documentary on saving the Black Kite join restored works of Satyajit Ray and G. Aravindan in the French Riviera.

World Sleep Day 2022: Sleep through the eyes of filmmaker Shaunak Sen

Shaunak Sen’s 'All That Breathes' is the first Indian film to win the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. On World Sleep Day, he talks of his first feature-length documentary - 'Cities of Sleep'.