Nilanjan Bhattacharya is a filmmaker based in Calcutta working in the field of documentaries

for the last twenty years. His films have been showcased in many film festivals, forums and

art spaces in India and abroad. He has worked as a consultant (on Calcutta’s public culture) to

several acclaimed international artists like Joakin Koester, Marcel Odenbach, Carsten Holler

and many others. His film installation, Fishing Out of Time was exhibited at Experimenter,

Calcutta.

Nilanjan received National Film Awards of India in 2005 and 2010 for his films, Under This

Sun on Biodiversity and related Knowledge in India, and Johar Welcome To Our World on

Indigenous food culture of Jharkhand. His other important works are, Rain in the Mirror and

Bengalis in the World of Fish. He has received supports for his films from The Ford

Foundation, Goteborg International Film Festival Grant, NHK and so on.

Nilanjan also writes on food and Calcutta’s public culture and is currently pursuing a project

on the tribal food culture of India.