Pradipta Ray is a queer filmmaker, painter and animation artist based out of Mumbai. A fine art graduate from Govt. Art College, Kolkata, and an alumnus at National Institute of Design, Pradipta is a regular visiting faculty at her alma...
Read MorePradipta Ray is a queer
filmmaker, painter and animation artist based out of Mumbai. A fine art
graduate from Govt. Art College, Kolkata, and an alumnus at National Institute
of Design, Pradipta is a regular visiting faculty at her alma mater.
As a filmmaker, Pradipta has written and
directed three short films; Raat Baki (2011), Eidi-The Gift
(2014) and Guy Next Door (2015). Her first short film Raat Baki
(The Night is Young) has been widely screened in various international film
festivals and has also bagged the Riyadh Wadia Award for Best Emerging
Filmmaker at the KASHISH- Mumbai International Queer Film Festival (2012). Her
film Muhafiz (2021) has won awards for the best screenplay and award for the
best Indian narrative shorts at KASHISH festival (2022), and was screened at
the Bafta qualified IRIS Prize festival (2022).
Her debut exhibition of paintings “Devi” at
Café Tilla Ahmedabad, in 2019 was much appreciated. In 2020 during the COVID-19
lockdown she designed and animated title and stories for Daan Sthapana by
Devdutt Pattanaik, streaming on Sony Liv. Pradipta had her solo exhibition
of paintings, and participated in a group show in Berlin 2022.
As a Pre-Production expert, Pradipta has
Designed look for several feature films and TV commercials. This includes
research (costume, environment, etc) and style development and Visualization.
She has worked as a Production Designer for
feature films like Love Wrinkle Free (2012) and ZOO (2018).
Pradipta is widely known for her work as
the chief visualizer/ Storyboard Artist for Bollywood blockbusters such as Rang
de Basanti, Heyy Babyy and Kambakth Ishq. She has directed
and designed numerous animated promos for MTV, Star TV and AXN including pilots
for Devlok, stories on Indian mythology in collaboration with Devdutt
Pattanaik and Amar Chitra Katha.
A visiting
Faculty at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad (visual communication),
for close to two decades. Pradipta also teaches as a guest lecturer at the UDK,
Berlin (Berlin University of Arts), SRH Berlin School of Design and
Communication. IDC, Mumbai.
