Sandhya Suri

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Sandhya Suri
Born
England
Occupation Filmmaker
Years active2005–present
Notable work Santosh

Sandhya Suri is a British-Indian film director and documentarian. [1] She is known for her debut feature film Santosh (2024),which she wrote and directed.

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Early life and education

Sandhya Suri was born in England and raised in Darlington. [2] Her father, Yash Pal Suri, had emigrated from India to work at a hospital in Teesside. [3]

After earning a degree in mathematics, Suri worked as a teacher in Japan. Her experiences documenting this period on camera inspired her to study documentary filmmaking at the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire. [1] [2]

Career

In 2005, Suri released the documentary I for India , detailing her father's experiences as a 20th-century Indian immigrant in the United Kingdom, based on his own tape recordings. [3] I for India was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. [4]

Suri's second film, the silent 2018 documentary Around India with a Movie Camera, used archival British Film Institute footage to explore life in British India. [5] That same year, Suri released the narrative short film The Field , [6] which was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 2019. [2]

Suri's narrative feature debut, Santosh was selected to screen in the Un Certain Regard portion of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. [7] She first began work on Santosh in 2016 when she was accepted to the Sundance Institute Director's Lab. [1]

Filmography

YearTitleNotesRef.
2005 I for India Documentary [3]
2018Around India with a Movie CameraDocumentary [5]
The Field Short film [6]
2024 Santosh N/a [7] [8]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2006 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize I for India Nominated [4]
2018 British Independent Film Awards Best Short Film The Field Nominated [9]
London Film Festival Best Short FilmNominated [9]
Toronto International Film Festival Best International Short Film Won [9]
2019 BAFTA Film Awards Best Short Film Nominated [9]
Melbourne International Film Festival Best Fiction Short FilmWon [9]
Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Short FilmNominated [9]
2024 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Santosh Nominated [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sundance Institute Selects Eight First-Time Filmmakers for Directors Lab, May 30-June 23". Sundance. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Dalton, Ben. "Stars of Tomorrow 2023: Sandhya Suri (writer-director)". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 French, Philip. "I for India". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  4. 1 2 "I for India - Awards & Festivals". MUBI. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  5. 1 2 Kripalani, Coonoor. "Around India with a Movie Camera: Film Review Essay by Coonoor Kripalani". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  6. 1 2 Bartlett, Penelope. "Love at Harvest Time: A Conversation with Sandhya Suri". Criterion. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  7. 1 2 3 Kaushal, Sweta. "Two Indian Films In Official Selection At Cannes Film Festival 2024". Forbes. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  8. ↑ "PIO Sandhya Suri's thriller 'Santosh', shot in UP, named UK's Oscar entry". The Times of India. 26 September 2024. Archived from the original on 14 March 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Field (2018) - Awards & Festivals". MUBI. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
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