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Performance film / 2019

Jangal

Soumik Datta / Bucks Music Group

Directed by Souvid Datta; original production credited to SDFilms. Collaborators below.

A music film accompanying Soumik Datta’s protest against deforestation. Performance and a boy’s encounter with a threatened natural world give the environmental subject a dramatic form.

From the film.

Frames & making

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The people behind the work

Credits.

Boy: Arkendu Bhattacharya
Friend: Paroj Chowdhury
Written & Directed by: Souvid Datta
Production Company: SDFilms
Commissioned by: Bucks Music Group
India Producer: Cinewacky Ent.
VFX: Leonard Ngu Oleksandr Maksym
Director of Photography: Souvid Datta
Associate Producer & Mixing: Jonathan Rogers
Mastering: Streaky
Creative Producer: Subhajit Prasad
Line Producer: Sanglap Barman
1st AD: Arpan Bain
2nd AD: Poulomi Golui
1st Production Asst: Yemi Alade
2nd Production Asst: Anirban Mandal
Production Runner: Saikat Barman
Production Co-ordinator: Jayanti Prasad

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