Bikas Ranjan Mishra

Award winning writerdirector Bikas Mishras debut feature Chauranga released on January 8 2016 won Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and was declared Best Indian Feature at Mumbai Film Festival MAMI The screenplay of the film was developed at NFDC Screenwriters Lab in collaboration with Locarno Film Festival and ScriptStation of Berlin Talents It received a development grant from the Göteborg International Film Festival Sweden Bikas a fellow of Binger FilmLab Amsterdam has also received prestigious Hubert Bals Fund for script development from the International Film Festival Rotterdam His short film Naach Ganesh Dance of Ganesha widely travelled to prestigious festivals including Clermont Ferrand France Rotterdam The Netherlands Busan South Korea and IFFLA Los Angeles He holds a masters degree in Mass Communication from Mass Communication Research Centre Jamia New Delhi Prior to his filmmaking career Bikas worked as a special Features show producer for CNBC with Network18 Bikas has served on the selection committees of Mumbai Film Festival and has been invited on the critics juries of International Film Festival of Kerala and Osians Cinefan Film Festival New Delhi In 2012 he was invited on the Visionary Jury of Critics Week of the Cannes Film Festival