Mr.Satish Bhatia
Mr Satish Bhatia graduated from FTII Pune in the year 1967 and started working as a head of the Film and Video Camera department of Doordarshan Mumbai and Delhi.
Mr Bhatia has worked as a cinematographer with reputed directors such as Hrishekesh Mukherjee, Raman Kumar, Simi Garewal, Kundan Shah etc and also has worked on News Sports and Current affairs programmes for various international television networks like Transtel(Germany), Rosselini and Associati (Rome), Sports Satellite Broadcasting( U.K.)
He has also directed and photographed more than 100 documentaries and corporate films like Raj Kapoor, India's Rajiv, World Heritage Series "Taj Mahal".
Mr.Rafey Mahmood
Having worked in the media industry for many years he has been the Director of Photography (DOP) for feature films like ‘Mithya’, ‘Mixed Doubles’, ‘Raghu Romeo’, ‘Katha Don Ganpatraoanchi’, ‘Journey to Mecca’ (an upcoming IMAX film produced byCosmic Pictures) and many more. He has also done the cinematography for acclaimed short films like ‘Tarana’, a 35mm Non Fiction Film on Indian Classical Music, which won the Golden Lotus Award for the Best Non- Fiction Film at the National Film Awards, and many more. He has shot around 400 Commercials for Advertising Agencies, like JW Thompson, Grey Worldwide, Mc Caan Erikson, O&M, Leo Burnett, Mudra.
He has won the Radio & Press Advertising award (RAPA) in the year 2007 for ‘Best Cinematography’ in an Ad Film for Bose Audio Systems.
Mr.Tanmay Agarwal
He has also handled operativecamerawork on “Rendezvous with Simi Garewal”, an acclained talk show for Star TV. He has won several national and international awards for his short film “Aftershocks”. He also won the National Award in the short fiction category for his film “Still life”. His documentary “Zindagi Andhere Ke Saye Mein” bagged him an Indian Red Cross entry at International Symposium on AIDS, Toronto.
Mr.Dev Agarwal
Dev's passion for photography started when he was in school. He completed his photography course from Society of Photographers, Kolkata in 2001. After completing he did his B.A in Mass Communication and Film Studies from St Xavier's College, Kolkata and went on to do a Post Graduate Diploma in Cinematography from the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.
He has worked in the media industry form a very young age in Kolkata as a Chief Assistant Director in Ad films. He has also worked with eminent Indian as well as International Artists and Theatre Directors. He has worked as an assistant Cinematographer in Ad, Feature, Corporate andDocumentary Films. He has independently shot Documentaries and short fiction films. Currently he is working as a freelance Cinematographer.
Mr.Anirban Lahiri
Born and brought up in Kolkata, Anirban Lahiri grew up with the silver screen magic of Chaplin, Walt Disney and Ray. Later, as part of the Undergraduate programme at Jadavpur University, he got the first inkling of how to read a film as a cultural text. While doing Masters in Comparative Literature, the passion for film-viewing led him to learning the major European languages so that he would be able to watch the films without subtitles. The same passion goaded him to join a second Masters degree course in Film Studies and to take basic training in photography and animation.
After a few stints in local channels as Producer, Lahiri joined L V Prasad Film & TV Academy, Chennai at his future mentor Sunny Joseph’s behest. While studying there he assisted Mr Joseph in a couple of films, as well as assisted the other noted teacher Mr Balu Mahendra in some of his independent works.
After passing out, Lahiri worked on several documentaries and corporates for some time. While working in a film with Mr Indraneel Mukhopadhyay, one of the topnotch Bengali DOPs in Kolkata, he chose to join Digital Academy for an experience in film-teaching.
Lahiri is also a regular film-critic, writing mostly for the web-portal DearCinema, of which he is an Associate Editor. He is a trained vocalist with specialization in Tappa. Besides cinema, music and books, the other three activities he delves deep into are travel, martial arts and Science writing.
