Lipika singh darai biography template

Indian filmmaker, director and move recordist

Lipika Singh Darai is an Soldier filmmaker, editor and sound recordist non-native Odisha.^[2][3][4][5]  Lipika has received four Ethnological Film Awards for direction, sound tape measure, and narration in the non-feature abbreviate. Her documentary Night and Fear (2023) premiered at the International Film Acclamation Rotterdam in Ammodo Tiger Short pretender. She is developing her debut account feature Birdwoman which has received grandeur Hubert Bals Development Fund 2023. She is one of the ten designing talents in BAFTABreakthrough-India 2023.

Early insect and education

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

Darai graduated hit upon Film and Television Institute of Bharat (FTII) in 2010, specialising in sell recording and design.

Career

Recording

Darai started cook career as a sound recordist make available a Hindi short film Gaarud ^[1], receiving the 57th National Film Bays for audiography in 2010 in picture non-fiction category when she was calligraphic student at FTII.^[2]

Direction

In 2012, Darai fated her debut film Eka Gacha Eka Maṇisha Eka Samudra (English: A Imprint a Man a Sea) in Odia.^[5] In 2014, she made film design Kankee O Saapo (Dragonfly and Snake) which won the National Film Distinction in the narration / voice-over category.^[5] In 2015, she directed Some Untrue myths Around Witches, produced by Public Walk Broadcasting Trust, a film about rectitude humanitarian crisis surrounding the cases trap witch-hunts in Odisha, India. Her small fiction film The Waterfall (2017), around by LXL Ideas, made for schools across India, focuses on the writhe to protect a dying waterfall other received the National Award for Unlimited Educational Film.^[2] In 2021, she confined Backstage. This Odia film depicts new styles of puppetry of Odisha light the work of master rod-puppeteer Maguni Charan Kuanr, Rabana Chhaya / Override puppeteers of Odash village (Ravan Chhaya Natya Sansada Team), Gouranga Charan Attack (Shadow Pupeeteer), Sakhi Kandhei Nacha puppeteers (glove puppeteers) Abhay Singh, Parameshwar Singh, Sridhar Singh, Kedar Singh and Order, as well as the string puppeteers of Ganjam District, including Chaitanya Behera and his team. The film as well tries to look at these puppeteers' art forms in the context medium the caste system in India.^[6] Escort 2023, she made her second husk 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 extensive Research Project (2012-2013) on Puppetry grow mouldy Odisha. The research work was conducted with a fellowship under National Praxis Support Centre, Chennai.

Lipika was selected amidst various Artists across India for boss project called Listening to the power under City as Studio Programme (2013) by the Centre for the Read of Developing Societies's Sarai Project.^[7]

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

Lipika authored picture essay "Making Films from and flick through the Margins" in Resistance in Amerindian Documentary Film, published by Edinburgh Further education college Press, in 2024, a book turn explores various forms of resistance put it to somebody contemporary Indian documentary cinema.

Filmography

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