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Akhilesh Mandal post graduated on History with a degree in Islamic History and Culture. Though he has a diploma in graphics and animation but he has started his carrier as a professional editor in the medium of audio-visuals since 2007. He is a very serious student of film-making. He devoted his valuable time for watching world and Indian Films, learning basic of film making through Films and books of film making. He is an Ex student of the Chitrabani Filmmaking batch 2015 have directed and executed few short films till date.

“Job Vacancy” (17 min) is his first serious short film after passing out from Chitrabani, got selected in the Kolkata Short Film Festival 2015 and won the award for the ‘Best Film Direction’ at the 3rd Kolkata International Short Film Festival 2016 organized by Kolkata Cine Docu Short Foundation. “Family” (6 min) is his second short length film and has participated in couple of film festivals, viz., KSFF 2015 and KISFF 2016. "Asomprikto" (29 min) is his third short length fiction film. It got selected in 9th International Short and Documentary Film festival of Kerala 2016, 2nd ICS International Film Festival of Kerala 2016, Kolkata Short Film Festival 2016 and SSF Film Festival of Kolkata 2017. It awarded with "Best Film" in SSF Film Festival in 2017. "Journey of Rain" (3 min) is his fourth short film and "Kagojer Thonga" (34 min) is his fifth short fiction film.