Rohit Gupta

Rohit Gupta
Born Rohit Gupta
Mumbai, India
Residence New York City, United States
Education Master of Business Administration
Alma mater Wingate University, North Carolina
Occupation Film director, film producer
Years active 2009–present
Website dotandfeatherentertainment.com

Rohit Gupta (pronounced [ˈroːɦɪt̪ ɡuːptə] is a film director, film producer who resides in the United States. He is known for directing Life! Camera Action..., Another Day Another Life, Midnight Delight, winning several awards & nominations.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Film career

Born into a business family of Mumbai, Gupta earned his MBA degree from Wingate University in North Carolina.[7] He later joined New York Film Academy for a four-week filmmaking program to explore his interest in behind-the-scenes world of filmmaking.[8] The initial film assignments he was working on for classes became inspiration for later works. His first film Another Day Another Life a four-minute suspense thriller flick was chosen as an official selection at the Short Film Corner - Cannes Film Festival in 2009.[8] It attracted enough attention to encourage Gupta to seriously attempt a career as a filmmaker.[9] New York Film Academy offered Gupta scholarship to extend his stay in to the one-year program. He dropped out in four months to shoot his first feature, the inspiring family-drama movie Life! Camera Action... with a two-member crew in three languages English, Hindi, Punjabi as part of the story.[10] Gupta followed with a comedy feature Midnight Delight.[11][12]

Honors and appearances

In 2010, Gupta was invited to speak at the Sensoria, an annual week-long film event held every year in Charlotte, North Carolina, where education connects with professionals creating cinematic magic in Hollywood.[13] At Sensoria George Cochran, the event founder & a former Directors Guild of America commercial film director and Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Film Office honored and felicitated Gupta as an industry leader and mentor for the students of the Central Piedmont Community College Arts and filmmaking department.[14] Gupta was again invited to speak at Sensoria in 2012 to share, as quoted by Sarah Perry, "how he made a five-minute film for $100 called Another Day Another Life that a little festival called Cannes chose as an official selection; and how his other film Life! Camera Action... has toured the world and won top awards at renowned festivals".[15][16]

In 2011, Gupta was invited as a special guest speaker at the launch of New York Film Academy first open house session in India. The event was held at the Four Seasons Hotel, Mumbai.[17] He is credited for being the first alumnus of the New York Film Academy to have expanded a short film assignment in to a full-length feature film.[8]

In 2012, Gupta was invited as an honorary member on the Global Artistic Advisory Board of the World Music & Independent Film Festival based in Washington, D.C.[18]

Gupta is listed in the Limca Book of Records, India's equivalent of the Guinness World Records, for creating a national record for the first full-length motion picture "shot by just a two-member crew".[19][20]

In 2013, Symbiosis International University in Pune invited Gupta for a guest lecture on Management & Creative aspects of filmmaking. A SIMColloquium, where eminent speakers from the field of media and communication come to interact with students and enable them to understand how the industry works was organized for Gupta's interaction with the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communications (SIMC) students.[21][22]

Gupta was chosen by Times Now as one of five global Indian short-listed from around the world for the "2014 NRI of the Year" award for his "Distinctive Global Achievement in Arts & Entertainment".[23][24][25]

Gupta was invited to be on the jury for Charlotte 48 Hour Film Project in North Carolina for three years in a row (2014, 2015 & 2016).[26][27]

In May 2015, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, invited Gupta as speaker for the seminar titled "Life! Camera Action...".[28][29] Later in the year, SAE Institute in Dubai invited Gupta to address a seminar to its filmmaking and multimedia students.[30][31]

Filmography

Year Film Director Producer Writer Editor Notes
2016 Midnight Delight ( feature film )
2013 Corridor ( short film )
2012 Life! Camera Action... ( feature film )
2011 Just Do It! ( short film )
2009 Another Day Another Life ( short film )

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ↑ "Movie Making is Magic: Rohit Gupta by Jyothsna Hegde, Atlanta, USA.". NRI Plus. May 28, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Urban Asian – Rohit Gupta's Life! Camera Action... at the International Film Festival Manhattan, 2011". Urban Asian. November 15, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Rohit Gupta's films sweep top ten prestigious awards". Times of India. April 30, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  4. ↑ "New York Film Academy Graduate Rohit Gupta Nominated for Several Awards at World Music and Independent Film Festival". New York Film Academy, New York, USA. April 25, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Rohit Gupta's Life! Camera Action... selected to screen at IIDFF in Greece". Bollywood Trade.com. September 14, 2012. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Rohit Gupta's film 'Life! Camera Action...' to showcase in Lahore". Times of India. February 9, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Profile and Biography of Rohit Gupta". Veethi - The Face of India. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  8. 1 2 3 "Financing Your Indie Film and Developing an Audience by Frank Pasquine from New York Film Academy Official Blog". New York Film Academy Official Blog. June 28, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  9. ↑ Chandel Singh, Shveata (April 2014). "'Filmmaking is magic': Rohit Gupta". Public Telegraph Sydney, NSW Australia. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "Movie business is one of the most beautiful businesses: Rohit Gupta". Times of India. June 11, 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  11. ↑ Pasquine, Frank (12 March 2015). "NYFA Grad Rohit Gupta Releases Trailer for 'Midnight Delight'". New York Film Academy, New York, USA. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  12. ↑ Editorial Staff, India West (13 May 2015). "'Midnight Delight' Wins Awards at Cannabis Film Festival". India West - California, USA. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "See Exec. Producer Tim Bourne of Oscar Winning Film, Blindside". Fanpop North Carolina. April 13, 2010.
  14. ↑ "Central Piedmont Community College wants to be in pictures by Charlotte Business Journal". Charlotte Business Journal. April 8, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
  15. ↑ "Building Film-Ourstate". Ourstate NC. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  16. ↑ "6TH Annual FILM PEOPLE". Charlotte Business Journal.
  17. ↑ "Indian born US based Filmmaker Rohit Gupta's Life! Camera Action...by Keep in touch news". Keep in touch news. February 2, 2011.
  18. ↑ "I'm delighted to be a member of WMIFF: Rohit Gupta". The Times of India. December 14, 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  19. ↑ "Filmmaker Rohit Gupta honored by the Limca Book of Records by Roopa Modha – Urban Asian". Urban Asian. 2 January 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  20. ↑ "Filmmaker Rohit Gupta honored by the Limca Book of Records – TOI NRI Achievers". The Times of India. 14 January 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  21. ↑ "Symbiosis International University invited filmmaker Rohit Gupta". GlamGold - Latest News. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  22. ↑ Roshni, M (19 September 2013). "Rohit Gupta speaks on Management and Creative aspects of filmmaking!". Urban Asian - Events & Gigs. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  23. ↑ "Achievement of Global Indians". NRI of the Year.
  24. ↑ "Rohit Gupta in the elite list for the NRI of the Year award by Roopa Modha". Urban Asian. March 14, 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  25. ↑ "Film director Rohit Gupta nominated for the NRI of the Year award". Daily Indian Herald. 17 March 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  26. ↑ "The Charlotte 48 Hour Film Project". August 2014.
  27. ↑ Toppman, Lawrence (12 August 2014). "48 Hour Film Project: Mini-cinema on the fly". Charlotte Observer. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  28. ↑ "Universal Business Schools with strong global influence". Ed Universal Ranking. Eduniversal Business School. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  29. ↑ "Rohit Gupta, MBA turned film director, to speak on Life! Camera Action...". Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. IIM-Bangalore. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  30. ↑ "Acclaimed filmmaker visits SAE Institute Dubai". Dubai Post. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  31. ↑ "filmmaker, Rohit Gupta visits SAE Institute Dubai". UAE Business Review. 24 October 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
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