Sourya Dipta

Biography

Sourya Dipta has a post-graduation degree in Film Studies from Calcutta’s Jadavpur University. A resident of Bengal, India, he found cinema during high school when there was a desperate need for hope to beat the everyday drudgery of life. His first film, In Their Own Time, made on a $1,000 budget, won the best feature-length documentary at the Come On, Doc! film festival held at KC Grad in Serbia. The film was awarded monetary compensation of €800, which helped recoup the entire production expenses. Aged 28 now, Sourya was only 23 when the film’s production began. In Their Own Time was also …