Director Shaunak Sen is an Indian filmmaker, video artist and film scholar based in New Delhi. Cities of Sleep (2016), his first feature-length documentary, was shown at various major international film festivals and won 6 international awards. Shaunak has received the IDFA Bertha Fund (2019), the Sundance Documentary Grant (2019), the Catapult Film Fund (2020), the Charles Wallace Grant, the Sarai CSDS Digital Media Fellowship (2014), and the Films Division of India Fellowship (2013). He has a Ph.D. from the School of Arts and Aesthetics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University (2018). He has published academic articles in Bioscope, Widescreen and other journals.
