Anirban is a filmmaker, still photographer and a media educator based in Delhi, India. He set up the film company, Metamorphosis in 2003. He has directed and produced several documentary films and created many photographic essays. His films have traveled to various film festivals including Sundance, CPH, Busan, IDFA, Hot Docs, Sheffield, DOC NYC, Yamagata, and MIFF. He was part of the Eurodoc Training Program for Creative Producing in 2021. He was also part of Film Independent’s Global Media Makers LA Residency in 2022 with the project Nocturnes. The film premiered at the Sundance in 2024 and went on to be shown at over 50 festivals across the world, winning awards at Sundance, Thessaloniki, Mumbai and others.
2020 Collected Voices FF Collected Voices
2020 CIDSFF
A glorious past withering away in a fast-changing world – The film is about a Postal Runner, a person who runs or walks from one place to another carrying mail bags. The runner used to be held in high regard…
2023 IDFA
2023 Busan IFF
In a remote village on the Indo-Myanmar border, seventy years after Indian independence, news floats in that electricity might arrive. People are skeptical as they have been let down too often in the past. A woman dreams of a better future. A century-old man dreams of sovereignty for his…