Airborne
TFI Suppport
Logline
The story of Delhi’s apocalyptic air is told through an unlikely figure – the black kite, and its human entanglements.
Shaunak Sen
Director
SHAUNAK SEN is a filmmaker, video artist and film scholar based in Delhi. CITIES OF SHEEP(2016), his first feature length documentary, was shown at various major international film festivals (European premiere at DOK Leipzig) and won 6 international documentary awards. Shaunak received the Films Division of India Fellowship (2013),theSaraiCSDS Digital Media fellowship (2014), Pro Helvetia residency, Switzerland (2016), the Charles Wallace Grant, as visiting scholar at Cambridge University (2018), the IDFA Bertha Fund (2019), the Sundance Documentary Grant (2019) and the Catapult Film Fund (2020). He is currently working on his second documentary project, AIRBORNE.
Aman Mann
Co-Producer
Aman Mann is a filmmaker and media researcher based in New Delhi. Aman was the associate director of CITIES OF SHEEP (Dir. Shaunak Sen, 74 mins, 2016), which was screened in various international festivals and won 6 international documentary awards. Aman has produced various ad films, short documentaries and video installations. He is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies in Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi. Aman is also co-producer of the in-production project AIRBORNE (Dir. Shaunak Sen) which received the IDFA Bertha Fund (2019), the Sundance Documentary Grant (2019) and the Catapult Film Fund (2020).