GAANGSHALIK (River Bird)

Shaktidhar Bir was born in 10th November, 1979 at Tong tala, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. His father is Late Suvash Chandra Bir, a farmer, and mother is Late Swapna Bir, a homemaker. After completing primary education from the village he came to the city and there he finished his school education. Then He pursued Bachelor Degree in English Literature from Calcutta University in 1999. After that He did his Bachelor in Visual Art from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata in 2005. He also has done diploma in Interior Designing in 2006. After that He joined a course in Independent Film Making at Kolkata Film and Television institute and completed it successfully in 2008. He has been a member of All India Assistant Director's Guild since 2009. He has done workshop on film making under supervision of Aparna Sen(Actor, Film Maker), Goutam Ghosh(Film maker), Samik Banerjee(Film Critic), Adinath Sen(DOP). He has worked with Samir Chanda (Art Director), Maloy Bhattacharjee (Production Designer and Film maker), Anup Mukherjee (Sound Designer, Shuvra Roy (Editor), Anumita Dasgupta (Film Maker). He has been working professionally in Tollygunge Film Industry for 10 years. He has made many short films. The post production work of debut feature film is going at present. Many of his works have been shown and been critically acclaimed in many places in the country. He has always been truly independent in making films. He has always experimented with various languages and forms of Cinema. He loves a simple approach to tell a story, observing with multiple perspective and fragments of a structure. He tries to capture a true essence of the soil. His vision is to create a genre which is more like a handmade product or creation rather than some factory product. He strongly believes a film is collage of emotions, shapes, forms and so on which a director’s mindscape is painted on films.