Biswajeet Bora

Biswajeet Bora (born 8 August 1979) is an Internationally acclaimed National award winning Indian film director, producer, writer, and editor based in Mumbai. His directorial debut was in 2015 with Aisa Yeh Jahaan, India's first movie to be carbon neutral during production. His film God on the Balcony (2020) won nine awards, including the Royal Bengal Tiger Trophy for Best Director at the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival and the German Star at the Indian Film Festival Stuttgart. Boomba Ride (2021) was one of six Indian films shown at Marché du Film during the Cannes Film Festival 2022. His film Boomba Ride (2021) won the 69th National Film Awards for Best Mising language film.

Early life and education
Bora was born in the village of No. 1 Senchowa, Golaghat, Assam, India, to Purna Chandra Bora and Monju Bora. He began acting in amateur plays when he was 16 and later enrolled in Evergreen Drama and Film Institute in Golaghat. He also began practicing martial arts and received a black belt in 1999. Bora later shifted his creative focus to writing about films in Assamese newspapers, as well as directing plays. He received his degree in Assamese literature from Golaghat Commerce College in 2001, then moved to Mumbai to pursue film editing.

Career
In Mumbai, Bora worked as a film editor before assisting Jahnu Barua as Associate Director on several projects, including Ejak Jonakir Jhilmil (2007), for seven years. Bora's 2009 documentary Angel of the Aboriginals: Dr Verrier Elwin, was shown at the Bollywood Beyond Film Festival in Germany and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences conference in Turkey. In 2015, he wrote and directed Aisa Yeh Jahaan, the first Indian film to be carbon-neutral during its filming process. He subsequently directed Bahniman (2016), Phehujali: The Dawn (2017), and Raktabeez (2018). God on the Balcony, which Bora filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, premiered at the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival in 2021.

Bora's films have appeared at a number of film festivals, including those in Kolkata, Pune, Dhaka, Shanghai, Stuttgart, New York, Kerala, Barcelona, Melbourne, San Francisco, Bengaluru, Washington DC, Rajasthan, Guwahati, and Delhi. Others include the Indian Panorama at the International Film Festival of India, Imagine India International Film Festival, Third Eye Asian Film Festival, Rainbow Film Festival, LASA International Film Festival, and Jagran Film Festival.

Personal life
Bora lives in Mumbai with his wife, writer and fashion designer Lopamudra Gogoi Bora, and their son, Troy.