About Me

Current Status

Working as a freelance filmmaker.

Archival Footage

Please contact for the Audio-Visual-Music-Photographs on the different subjects of Chhattisgarh e.g. Interview, Tribal, Forest and forest products, Tourism, Livelihood, Developments, Art, Culture, Ritual, Folk dance and music, River, Birds, Flora and fauna, Temples, Infrastructure, People, Festival etc.

Equipments

Camera- 3 CCD, Sony PD170

Caller mic

Tripod- Manfretto

Edit suite- Adobe premier

Professional Qualification

Diploma in Digital Video Production (July 1999 to December 2001) from Jandarshan

(About Jandarshan-an audio visual media training and research institute -a project financed by the European Comission under the Eu-India Economic cross cultural programme). The project aimed to develop management and personal skills through digital video production in an industrial context.

Specialized in Sound and Editing (FCP)

Education Qualification

M.A. in Sociology from Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur. Chhattisgarh

Portfolio

http://despoki.blogspot.com/2008/09/voices-from-waters.html

http://www.fieldtofactory.lse.ac.uk/TraineeBiogs/TejendraBiog.htm

http://www.therai.org.uk/zpdf/raiff2000catalogue.pdf

http://www.cmsindia.org/cmsenviscentre/resources/02.pdf

ACHIEVEMENTS

Film festivals

1. All things Bright and Beautiful: –Co-Director/Editor/Sound- GIEFF Goettingen International Ethnographic Film Festival May 2002 (web reference www.iwf.de/gieff )

2. Path is the destiny: –Producer: GIEFF Goettingen International Ethnographic Film Festival May 2002 (web reference www.iwf.de/gieff )

3. Shramev Jayate- Sound: SIFF (Sheffield International Film Festival) October 2001.

4. Clik Clik –Camera: Goettingen International Ethnographic Film Festival May 2002 (web reference www.iwf.de/gieff )

Broadcast and telecast

1. The man who bought a river: Production and Research–aired by AlJazeera International Channel in 2007

2. Narbali: Editor-Transmitted by Raipur Doordarshan 30/10/2000 and by two Raipur cable channels 31/10/2000.

3. Pt. Ramkinkarji, Telecasted by Doordarshan when he died in 2003.

Screenings

1. Shramev Jayate: Sound- the Factories and Field Conference, Gottingen, October 2001.

2. All things Bright and Beautiful: Co-Director/Editor/Sound- The Factories and Field Conference, Gottingen, October 2001.

3. The Last Shelter: Music– screened at Royal Anthropological Institute film festival London, 2000.

4. ‘Everyday Tales’: Sound Person- screened at ‘Factory and Field’ conference Gottingen, 2001.

5. ‘Accidents Don’t Have to Happen’: Sound Person- is being used by ILO widely as they screen it in various conferences and seminars and distributing the copies of the film to trade unions, industries and site safety personals to raise awareness about health and safety at worksite all over the world.

6. Fire of the Forest Seva mandir in udaipur and Ekta parishad Raipur.

7. Short films on famous personalities of Chhattisgarh, screened at Rajkumar collage in the evening of the celebration of the new State Chhattisgarh.

8. Salwa Judum: The film has been screened to the prime minister and the president of India by the government of Chhattisgarh in 2005.

Placement

Marker Limited, London UK

SHIFT(Sheffield Independent Film and Television) Sheffield, UK

IWF (Institute fur den Wissenchaftlichen Film), Goettingen, Germany

Yorkshire Television (short term Placement)

BBC London (short term Placement)

Contact

Tejendra Tamrakar

Chhattisgarh State

tej.tamrakar@gmail.com

91 98271 50713

91 788 2279861