Biswajeet Bora

Biswajeet Bora, born on 8 August 1979 in Golaghat, is a director, producer, writer and editor based in Mumbai. He acted in amateur plays from the age of 16, wrote about cinema in Assamese newspapers and graduated in Assamese literature in 2001 before moving to Mumbai to work as an editor. He then spent seven years assisting Jahnu Barua, including on Ejak Jonakir Jilmil (2007).

His debut as director was Aisa Yeh Jahaan (2015), the first Indian film to be carbon neutral during production. He followed it with Bahniman (2016), Phehujali: The Dawn (2017) and Raktabeez (2018). God on the Balcony, shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, premiered at the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival and won nine awards, among them the Royal Bengal Tiger Trophy for Best Director and the German Star at the Indian Film Festival Stuttgart. Boomba Ride was one of six Indian films shown at the Marche du Film during the 2022 Cannes festival and won the 69th National Film Award for Best Mishing language film.

His films have been shown at festivals in many cities, including Kolkata, Pune, Dhaka, Shanghai, New York and Barcelona.