Shaunak Sen

Shaunak Sen

About

SHAUNAK SEN is a filmmaker, video artist and film scholar based in Delhi. CITIES OF SHEEP(2016), his first feature length documentary, was shown at various major international film festivals (European premiere at DOK Leipzig) and won 6 international documentary awards. Shaunak received the Films Division of India Fellowship (2013),theSaraiCSDS Digital Media fellowship (2014), Pro Helvetia residency, Switzerland (2016), the Charles Wallace Grant, as visiting scholar at Cambridge University (2018), the IDFA Bertha Fund (2019), the Sundance Documentary Grant (2019) and the Catapult Film Fund (2020). He is currently working on his second documentary project, AIRBORNE.

Airborne

Airborne

The story of Delhi’s apocalyptic air is told through an unlikely figure – the black kite, and its human entanglements.