Sanjay Kak is an independent
documentary film-maker whose recent film
Words on Water (2003) on the anti-dam movement in the Narmada Valley in Central India has been widely screened in India and abroad, including at film festivals in
Durban,
Hong Kong,
Locarno and
Turin. In 2003 the film won Best Long Film prize at the Internacional Festival of Environmental Film & Video,
Brazil, and prizes at Envirofilm,
Slovakia; Vatavaran Environmental Film Festival,
New Delhi; and International Video Festival,
Trivandrum.
His film
In the forest hangs a bridge (1999) received the “Golden Lotus” for Best Documentary Film at the 1999 National Film Awards in
India. The film also won the “Asian Gaze” Award at the Pusan Short Film Festival,
Korea. His recent work includes
One Weapon (1997), a video about democracy in the 50th year of Indian independence, and
Harvest of Rain (1995), made in association with the Centre for Science & Environment, New Delhi.
His films on the theme of migration, looking at people of Indian origin in the fringes of the city of London
This Land, My Land, Eng-Land! (1993) and in post-apartheid South Africa
A House and a Home (1993) have been widely screened. He has also produced and directed
Cambodia: Angkor Remembered (1990), a reflection on the monument and its place in Khmer society.
Born in Pune in 1958, Sanjay Kak attended St Stephen’s College, Delhi and the
Delhi School of Economics where he studied Economics and Sociology.
Sanjay Kak lives in New...
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