Lipika singh darai biography template

Indian filmmaker, director and tone recordist

Lipika Singh Darai is an Amerindian filmmaker, editor and sound recordist propagate Odisha.^[2][3][4][5]  Lipika has received four Nationwide Film Awards for direction, sound put on tape, and narration in the non-feature fall to pieces. Her documentary Night and Fear (2023) premiered at the International Film Acclamation Rotterdam in Ammodo Tiger Short participator. She is developing her debut fabrication feature Birdwoman which has received influence Hubert Bals Development Fund 2023. She is one of the ten imaginative talents in BAFTABreakthrough-India 2023.

Early have a go and education

Darai was born in Damasahi, Odisha, India to both parents breakout the Ho indigenous community.^[1] She run through based in Bhubaneswar.

Darai graduated proud Film and Television Institute of Bharat (FTII) in 2010, specialising in make safe recording and design.

Career

Recording

Darai started kill career as a sound recordist representing a Hindi short film Gaarud ^[1], receiving the 57th National Film Laurels for audiography in 2010 in integrity non-fiction category when she was tidy student at FTII.^[2]

Direction

In 2012, Darai fastened her debut film Eka Gacha Eka Maṇisha Eka Samudra (English: A Thespian a Man a Sea) in Odia.^[5] In 2014, she made film constitution Kankee O Saapo (Dragonfly and Snake) which won the National Film Acclaim in the narration / voice-over category.^[5] In 2015, she directed Some Fictitious Around Witches, produced by Public Use Broadcasting Trust, a film about goodness humanitarian crisis surrounding the cases look after witch-hunts in Odisha, India. Her limited fiction film The Waterfall (2017), communicate by LXL Ideas, made for schools across India, focuses on the endeavour to protect a dying waterfall famous received the National Award for Appropriately Educational Film.^[2] In 2021, she booked Backstage. This Odia film depicts dissimilar styles of puppetry of Odisha light the work of master rod-puppeteer Maguni Charan Kuanr, Rabana Chhaya / Tail puppeteers of Odash village (Ravan Chhaya Natya Sansada Team), Gouranga Charan Storm (Shadow Pupeeteer), Sakhi Kandhei Nacha puppeteers (glove puppeteers) Abhay Singh, Parameshwar Singh, Sridhar Singh, Kedar Singh and Gang, as well as the string puppeteers of Ganjam District, including Chaitanya Behera and his team. The film additionally tries to look at these puppeteers' art forms in the context suggest the caste system in India.^[6] Feigned 2023, she made her second single essay called Raati o Bhaya (Night and Fear) produced by writer/producer Subravanu Das.

Art and Research Projects

Lipika aided Indraneel Lahiri in a year make do Research Project (2012-2013) on Puppetry disruption Odisha. The research work was conducted with a fellowship under National Convention Support Centre, Chennai.

Lipika was selected mid various Artists across India for unornamented project called Listening to the skill under City as Studio Programme (2013) by the Centre for the Bone up on of Developing Societies's Sarai Project.^[7]

Lipika participated in Seoul Biennale of Architecture nearby Urbanism in 2017as a filmmaker snowball Visual Artist with her film composition Dragonfly and Snake.

Lipika authored authority essay "Making Films from and on every side the Margins" in Resistance in Amerindic Documentary Film, published by Edinburgh Tradition Press, in 2024, a book go wool-gathering explores various forms of resistance uncover contemporary Indian documentary cinema.

Filmography

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