8th Chennai Film Festival : Retrospective 2 - Ranjan Palit

8th Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2020
Retrospective # 2 : Ranjan Palit, cinematographer / filmmaker

Films to be screened :

In Camera
dir ranjan palit ,77 min produced by psbt ,2009

A long documentary where dir cameraman ranjan palit reflects on the ethics of shooting the documentary, after 25 years of shooting and directing the same

Main award at kerala 3rd int docu fest, best experimental film award in vibgyor, 2 national awards

Voices from baliapal
dir by vasudha joshi and ranjan palit, produced by vector productions, 40 min .1988

The film is about the nonviolent protest of 70000 farmers and fisher folk against the setting up of a missile base in baliapal, the most fertile part of coastal Orissa

Won the golden conch BIFF 1990 audience award, freiburg int film festival and national award for best film on social issues

A Night of Prophecy
dir by amar kanwar, cam ranjan palit.

produced by documenta and amar kanwar films, 2002 ,77 min

a documentary on protest songs and poetry across the indian subcontinent

FOR MAYA
dir vasudha joshi cam ranjan palit 1997 40 min .produced by the foundation for universal responsibility of his holiness the dalai llama

a film where vasudha joshi turns the camera on 4 generations of her family..

anandalok award 1998

The Lord of the Orphans

dir by ranjan palit and produced by ranjan palit and jar pictures and presented by vishal bhardwaj-150 min; 2019

my debut fiction feature film is a kind of autobiopic where in the first half, i follow the story of a family(mine) reeling under a 100 year old curse, and in the 2nd half ,tell the story of my own life as a loser in love, being healed by the documentary