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Sandhya Suri
British-Indian film director From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sandhya Suri is a British-Indian film director and documentarian.[1]
Early life
Sandhya Suri was born in England and raised in Darlington.[2] Her father, Yash Pal Suri, had emigrated from India to work at a hospital in Teesside.[3]
Career
After earning a degree in mathematics, Suri worked as a teacher in Japan. Her experiences documenting this period on camera inspired her to study documentary filmmaking at the National Film and Television School.[1][2]
In 2005, Suri's released the documentary I for India detailing her father's experiences as a 20th-century Indian immigrant in the United Kingdom based on his own tape recordings.[3] I for India was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.[4]
Suri's second film, the silent 2018 documentary Around India with a Movie Camera, used archival British Film Institute footage to explore life in British India.[5] That same year, Suri released the narrative short film The Field,[6] which was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 2019.[2]
Suri's narrative feature debut, Santosh was selected to screen in the Un Certain Regard portion of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.[7] She first began work on Santosh in 2016 when she was accepted to the Sundance Institute Director's Lab.[1]
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