Amartya Bhattacharyya

Amartya Bhattacharyya is a filmmaker, writer and artist from the eastern part of India. He has won two national awards, a state award and several international awards. He was awarded the Silver Lotus for the Best Cinematography in non-feature film at the 63rd National Film Awards by the president of India for his fantasy documentary 'Benaras-the unexplored attachments'. His latest National award was for 'Lahari' which won the Best Odia Film at the 72nd National Film Awards. His second feature film 'Khyanikaa - The Lost Idea' featured as the only Odia film in the Indian Panorama section of 48th International Film Festival of India 2017. He was awarded the State film awards in Best Editing category for Khyanikaa - The Lost Idea at the 29th Odisha State Film Awards, conferred by the Government of Odisha.

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