Abeer Gupta

Abeer Gupta is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design, India, and Goldsmiths College, University of London,  where he studied visual anthropology. He has directed several short documentary films and executive produced Siddharth, the prisoner, which received the Critic’s Choice Award at the 2nd Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), Gold Coast, Australia, 2008 and the Best Actor Award for Rajat Kapoor at 10th Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, New Delhi, 2008. He is currently based in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, and is involved in research on visual and material cultures of the Tibetan Himalayas.