Bauddhayan Mukherji – Режиссер, продюсерИндия
Director, producer
India
Born and raised in Calcutta. Satyajit Ray had a strong influence on his work. In 2007, he and his wife founded Little Lamb Films. He has shot over 600 commercials for leading brands such as Unilever, Google, Pepsico, Coca Cola, Honda, Hyundai, Colgate Palmolive, Nokia, etc. Impact Magazine included him in the top ten pioneers of Indian advertising film.
In 2010, he shot a commercial against domestic violence for Breakthrough, which won the Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions advertising festival. He became the first Indian director to receive two consecutive One Show awards in New York and Spikes Asia Golds in Singapore. In 2015, an advertising campaign for the Sabin Vaccine Institute earned him another Silver Lion. His "Shower" commercial for Unilever's 2021 advertising campaign won the National Film Award.
Director of two award-winning and internationally acclaimed independent films from Little Lamb Films – "The Elusive Three" (2014) in Bengali and "The Violin Player" (2015) in Hindi. In 2015, he received the Aravindan Puraskaram Award, awarded to the best Indian debut director, for the film "The Elusive Three". "The Violin Player" (2015) won the Best Feature Film award at the Durban IFF and became the first Indian film acquired by the well-known French distributor Alpha Violet. As a producer, he released the critically acclaimed documentary short film "Whose Women's Day Is It Anyway?" and the third feature film from Little Lamb Films, "Cloud and Man", which had its world premiere in 2021 at the Tallinn Black Nights IFF. His directorial works also include "Marichjhapi" (2020, participant in the Cannes IFF Cinefondation L'Atelier program) and "The Wife of an Accountant" (2021).