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Antara Lahiri
Biography
Antara is a true-blue Kolkata girl, born and brought up in the City of Joy. She completed her schooling from La Martiniere for Girls, following which she joined the Mass Communication course at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, In 2004, she enrolled in the Film Editing course at the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune. In 2008, "Narmeen" a diploma film she edited , won the HBO Short Film Competition Grand Jury Award in the South Asian International Film Festival in New York, and in 2009 Best Short Film at the Indian Film Festival in Los Angeles. Her documentary project “A Call Too Far” (also directed by Dipti Gogna) won the Silver Award at the 2007 IDPA awards.
From 2011, Antara started editing independently starting with the children's film Gattu (CFSI), followed by - Mere Dad Ki Maruti (Y-Films) and Bewakoofiyaan (YRF Studios), In the last couple of years, she has edited 3 episodes of the Netflix original series Bard of Blood, and 10 episodes of the Amazon original series Four More Shots Please.
Antara has just wrapped the edit of a Netflix Original film "Yeh Ballet" and is currently editing a film due for theatrical release in 2020.