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Rohit Gupta
Born
Mumbai, India
EducationMaster of Business Administration
Alma materWingate University, North Carolina
Occupation(s)Film director, film editor, film producer
Years active2009–present

Rohit Gupta (pronounced [ˈroːɦɪt̪ ɡuːptə] is a film director, producer who resides in the United States. He is known for directing Life! Camera Action... & Another Day Another Life which received universal acclaim and success earning numerous awards & accolades in various categories from around the globe.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Gupta is currently in post-production of his upcoming comedy feature titled Midnight Delight.

Film career

"In an era of digital and technology explosion, director Rohit Gupta has created a global mark within a short span of time."

quoted in The Times of India[7]

Born into a business family of Mumbai, Gupta earned his MBA degree from Wingate University in North Carolina.[8] He later joined New York Film Academy for a four-week filmmaking program to explore his interest in behind-the-scenes world of movie making.[9] The initial film assignments he was working on for classes became inspiration for later works. His first film Another Day Another Life a four minute suspense thriller flick was chosen as an official selection at the Short Film Corner - Cannes Film Festival in 2009.[9] It attracted enough attention to encourage Gupta to seriously attempt a career as a filmmaker.[10] New York Film Academy offered Gupta scholarship to extend his stay in to the one year program. He dropped out in four months to shoot his first feature, the inspiring family-drama movie Life! Camera Action... with a two-member crew in three languages English, Hindi, Punjabi as part of the story.[11]

Life! Camera Action... also received wide acclaim and success earning numerous awards & nominations from around the world. The film made its way to the Limca Book of Records, India's equivalent of the Guinness World Records for setting two national records.[12][13][14] Gupta's journey and process of his work are widely considered a major source of inspiration to aspiring filmmakers, students of cinema, and youth at large the world over.[9][11][15][16]

Honors & Appearances

Gupta is the first alumnus of the New York Film Academy to have converted a short film assignment in to a full length feature film.[9]

In 2010, Gupta was invited to speak at the Sensoria, an annual week long film event held every year in Charlotte, North Carolina, where education connects with professionals creating cinematic magic in Hollywood.[17] At Sensoria George Cochran, the event founder & a former Directors Guild of America commercial film director and Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Film Office honored and felicitated Gupta as an industry leader and mentor for the students of the Central Piedmont Community College Arts and filmmaking department.[18] Gupta was again invited to speak at Sensoria in 2012 to share, as quoted by Sarah Perry, "how he made a five-minute film for $100 called Another Day Another Life that a little festival called Cannes chose as an official selection; and how his other film Life! Camera Action... has toured the world and won top awards at renowned festivals".[19][20]

In 2011, Gupta was invited as a special guest speaker at the launch of New York Film Academy first open house session in India. The event was held at the Four Seasons Hotel, Mumbai.[21]

In 2012, Gupta was invited as a honorary member on the Global Artistic Advisory Board of the World Music & Independent Film Festival based in Washington, D.C.[22]

In 2013, India's prestigious institute Symbiosis International University in Pune invited Gupta for a guest lecture on Management & Creative aspects of filmmaking. A SIMColloquium, where eminent speakers from the field of media and communication come to interact with students and enable them to understand how the industry works was organized for Gupta's interaction with the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communications (SIMC) students. The students at SIMC got an opportunity to do a case study on both of his award winning films.[23][24]

Gupta was chosen by Times Now as one of five global Indian short-listed from around the world for the prestigious NRI of the Year 2013 award for Distinctive Global Achievement in Arts & Entertainment.[25][26]

In 2014, Gupta was invited to be on the jury for Charlotte 48 Hour Film Project.[27][28]

Filmography

Year Film Director Producer Writer Editor Notes
2015 Midnight Delight
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2012 Life! Camera Action...
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2011 Just Do It!
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 ( short film )
2009 Another Day Another Life
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 ( short film - received universal acclaim )

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of accolades received by Rohit Gupta

References

  1. ^ "Movie Making is Magic: Rohit Gupta by Jyothsna Hegde, Atlanta, USA". NRI Plus. May 28, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
  2. ^ "Urban Asian – Rohit Gupta's Life! Camera Action... at the International Film Festival Manhattan, 2011". Urban Asian. November 15, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
  3. ^ "Rohit Gupta's films sweep top ten prestigious awards". Times of India. April 30, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  4. ^ "New York Film Academy Graduate Rohit Gupta Nominated for Several Awards at World Music and Independent Film Festival". New York Film Academy. April 25, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
  5. ^ "Rohit Gupta's Life! Camera Action... selected to screen at IIDFF in Greece". Bollywood Trade.com. September 14, 2012. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
  6. ^ "Rohit Gupta's film 'Life! Camera Action...' to showcase in Lahore". Times of India. February 9, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
  7. ^ "Rohit Gupta's film wins 'Platinum Reel Award'". The Times of India. December 6, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  8. ^ "Profile and Biography of Rohit Gupta". Veethi - The Face of India. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  9. ^ a b c d "Financing Your Indie Film and Developing an Audience by Frank Pasquine from New York Film Academy Official Blog". New York Film Academy Official Blog. June 28, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  10. ^ Chandel Singh, Shveata (April 2014). "'Filmmaking is magic': Rohit Gupta". Public Telegraph Sydney, NSW Australia. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  11. ^ a b "Movie business is one of the most beautiful businesses: Rohit Gupta". Times of India. June 11, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  12. ^ "NYFA Grad Rohit Gupta Honored by the Limca Book of Records by Frank Pasquine". New York Film Academy Official Blog. January 3, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  13. ^ "Filmmaker Rohit Gupta honored by the Limca Book of Records, NRI Achievers". The Times of India. January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  14. ^ "Life! Camera Action... Limca Book of Records by editorial". Bollywood Trade. January 11, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  15. ^ "Symbiosis International University invited filmmaker Rohit Gupta by Glam Gold Editorial". Glam Gold. September 12, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2013.
  16. ^ ""Life! Camera Action…" to screen at the Legacy Media Institute in Virginia by Roopa Modha". Urban Asian. November 8, 2013. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
  17. ^ "See Exec. Producer Tim Bourne of Oscar Winning Film, Blindside". Fanpop North Carolina. April 13, 2010.
  18. ^ "Central Piedmont Community College wants to be in pictures by Charlotte Business Journal". Charlotte Business Journal. April 8, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
  19. ^ "Building Film-Ourstate". Ourstate NC. May 2012. Retrieved May 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  20. ^ "6TH Annual FILM PEOPLE". Charlotte Business Journal.
  21. ^ "Indian born US based Filmmaker Rohit Gupta's Life! Camera Action...by Keep in touch news". Keep in touch news. February 2, 2011.
  22. ^ "I'm delighted to be a member of WMIFF: Rohit Gupta". The Times of India. December 14, 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
  23. ^ "Rohit Gupta speaks on Management and Creative aspects of filmmaking! by Roopa Modha". Urban Asian. September 19, 2013. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
  24. ^ "Symbiosis International University invited filmmaker Rohit Gupta". Glam Gold. September 12, 2013. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
  25. ^ "Rohit Gupta in the elite list for the NRI of the Year award by Roopa Modha". Urban Asian. March 14, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  26. ^ "Film director Rohit Gupta nominated for the NRI of the Year award". Daily Indian Herald. March 17, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  27. ^ "The Charlotte 48 Hour Film Project". August 2014.
  28. ^ Toppman, Lawrence (August 12, 2014). "48 Hour Film Project: Mini-cinema on the fly". Charlotte Observer. Retrieved November 26, 2014.

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