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Vinay Shukla

Director and filmmaker

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Vinay Shukla was a film director.

Vinay Shukla is an Indian Director, best known for his documentaries An Insignificant Man and While We Watched.

Career Vinay started his career as an assistant director for the 2009 movie Victory. His first short movie was titled Bureaucracy Sonata, set during the Emergency in India in 1975.

In 2012, Vinay started working on the idea of An Insignificant Man with Khushboo Ranka.

In 2022, Vinay released While We Watched, profiling NDTV's Ravish Kumar's journalistic independence against the backdrop of general media bias in India. The shooting itself took two years. The film won the Amplify voices award at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, Busan cinephile award at the 27th Busan International Film Festival and the Peabody award in 2023.

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director and filmmaker

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Vinay Shukla

· Wikidata: Q26863997

· DBpedia: Vinay Shukla (documentary filmmaker)

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