Tanushree Das

Born in Barrackpore, Calcutta, in 1980, Tanushree Das began her career as a theatre actress and director. She holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Calcutta and, in 2011, completed a Film Editing course at the Film and Television Institute of India. Since then, she has worked as an editor with renowned directors in India and on various documentary and fiction projects as a gaffer and sound technician. Shadowbox, presented at this edition of LEFFEST, is his first feature-length film as a director, alongside Saumyananda Sahi, to whom he is married. Together they founded the production company Skreen Films.