Priya Krishnaswamy
Priya Krishnaswamy is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, where she specialised in film editing. She is a 2-time National Award-winning Indian film producer, writer, director and editor who works predominantly in Hindi and Tamil cinema. In 2004, her English language documentary film, 'The Eye of the Fish - the Kalaris of Kerala' won the National Award for Best Arts / Cultural film.
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She made her feature film directorial debut with the Hindi film Gangoobai (2013), which was a product of NFDC's screenwriters' lab in 2009. She wrote, edited, directed and produced the Tamil language thriller Baaram (2020) which won the National Award for Best Tamil Feature Film in 2019.
• Year — Film — Credited as — Language — Notes • Director — Editor • 1988 — Om-Dar-B-Dar — Hindi • 1989 — Percy — Gujarati — Also actress • 1990 — Kaafila — Hindi • 1998 — Bombay Boys — Hindi • 1999 — Bhopal Express — Hindi • 2013 — Gangoobai — Hindi — Also writer • 2020 — Baaram — Tamil — Also producer and writer
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