Soumya Mukhopadhyay
India
Film Director, Production, Scriptwriter
biography
Soumya Mukhopadhyay, born in 1974 is a graduate in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata and is a post graduate in Business Administration. He has recently left his full time job of a market researcher after nearly two decades of working at Kantar, world’s leading research, data and insight company, helming global position as innovation director to pursue his primary passion of producing and directing films and experimenting with different forms of audio visual art. In the past few years, he has donned several hats; establishing and managing Cherrypix Movies; India’s leading boutique production and post production studio, producing a spate of experimental fiction and non-fiction films and directing his own films. He manages a blog titled marginal rambling (marginalrambling.wordpress.com), where he shares his musings on poetry, art, culture, cinema, religion, subverted rituals and practices.
company profile
Cherrypix Movies Pvt Ltd is India’s leading boutique audio-visual production and post-production studio based in Kolkata. It thrives on conceptualising and executing informed, exciting, visually compelling, innovative contemporary works. Established in 2012, by a group of film and management professionals it provides a one stop shop for digital cinema ranging from camera rental, colour grading, sound design/ mixing, content development and curation. Over the course of past seven years it has invested close to Euros 700,000 in the making of films that break the boundaries of imagination in South Asian cinema.