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Wet Blue Tarpaulin

A man from Assam working in Maharashtra encounters the foreign city when he is asked to get a fake ID card made to continue his job.

  • Anunay Barbhuiya
    Director
  • Anunay Barbhuiya
    Writer
  • Film and Television Institute of India
    Producer
  • Vishnu Hari
    Cinematographer
  • Saurabh
    Editor
  • Ankit Thapa
    Sound Recording and Design
  • Mausam Aggarwal
    Production Design
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    ভিজা নীল তেরপাল
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 29, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Shooting Format:
    35mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.66
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Film and Television Institute of India, Pune
  • 17th Kalpanirjhar International Short Fiction Film Festival
    Kolkata
    India
    December 6, 2019
    Official Selection : International Shorts Fiction
  • 15th International Short and Independent Film Festival, Dhaka
    Dhaka
    Bangladesh
    December 7, 2019
    Asian
    Opening Ceremony Screenings | Official Selection : International Competition (Fiction)
  • 11th Cut.In National Students' Film Festival, TISS Mumbai
    Mumbai
    India
    December 14, 2019
    Golden Owl (Fiction) | Golden Owl (Cinematography, Fiction)
  • 4th Kalinga Global Film Festival (KGFF)
    Bhubaneswar
    India
    January 21, 2020
    Official Selection, Students' Film Competition
  • 11th Indian Film Festival of Bhubaneswar, 2020
    Bhubaneswar
    India
    February 26, 2020
    Best Students' Film
  • 9th DMCS National Film Festival, 2020
    Pune
    India
    February 19, 2020
    Best Direction
  • 22nd Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival, 2020
    Madurai
    India
    December 6, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Urban Lens Film Festival 2021
    Bangalore
    India
    November 18, 2021
    Student Films
  • 13th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala
    Thiruvananthapuram
    India
    December 10, 2021
    Focus Short Fiction
  • 8th Kolkata People's Film Festival
    Kolkata
    India
    April 3, 2022
Director Biography - Anunay Barbhuiya

I am an independent filmmaker-artist from Assam, India. I am interested in ethnography, experimental documentary, and hybrid art that deals with the distinctions and overlaps of experience, reality, and truth. I studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. My student film, Wet Blue Tarpaulin (2019/India), premiered at the 15th International Short and Independent Film Festival, Dhaka. It was awarded at the 11th Indian Film Festival of Bhubaneswar, the 11th Cut.In National Students' Film Festival, TISS Mumbai, and the 9th DMCS National Film Festival, Pune.

In 2023, I was awarded the Doc_Commune Film Fund by PSBT, India, for the development of a short documentary project based in Barak Valley, Assam, India. In 2024, my first feature length documentary was selected for the MIFF Doc Film Bazaar Work-In-Progress (WIP) section.

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