AMAR KANWAR
Amar Kanwar is an independent documentary film maker who was recently awarded the Golden Conch - Best Film Award at the Mumbai International Documentary Film Festival in March 1998 for his film "A Season Outside". Subsequently the film also received several awards at the CEC-UGC documentary film festival in India. His films have also received Nominations for the Pinnacle Awards and have been screened in several international documentary film festivals .He is also a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for 1998 and is currently working on a film about masculinity and sexuality as part of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
A post graduate in Mass Communication , Film and Television from Jamia Millia Islamia, Amar Kanwar has been working as an independent film maker for ten years now. He has directed over 40 documentaries in this period ( all of which have been broadcast ) and has consistently worked on issues of health, ecology, philosophy , labour , law , politics , art and education .
Contact address :
Amar Kanwar
N 14 A , Saket , New Delhi -17 ,
India .
Telephone : 6516088 , Fax : 6854996
E- Mail : amarvg@del3.vsnl.net.in