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Ankush Nandi
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Ankush Nandi is an Indian animator and visual effect artist known for establishing India's biggest animation and cartoon film festival - "India International Animation and Cartoon Film Festival". A graduate from Picasso Animation college, Ankush have started his career in a media house at New Delhi and later he started working as a freelancer. He opened his own venture in the year 2014 and named it PSSAMTEK MEDIA LTD. The company aims to promote and implement animation as a curriculum in schools.

Early life
Ankush was born was born on 25th November 1989 in Kolkata, into a Bengali family, to Animesh Nandi a business man and Moli Nandi a home maker. Ankush attented Apeejay school and Indira Gandhi Memorial school in Kolkata. He was later enrolled into Picasso animation college in New Delhi to earn his graduation degree in animation and multimedia. Nandi fell in love with animation in the year 2004 when his father started an animation production house in Kolkata. It didn't take much time for him to decide that he wanted to be a successful animation film maker in future.

Career
After completing his graduation from Picasso Animation college in New Delhi, Ankush worked with Jasvinder Sidhu (a senior journalist) as a video editor for a short film "Last Goodbye to 22 Yards". He joined Delhi International Film Festival and later moved on to become a creative specialist in Turning Ideas Solution, where he has worked for few months and then started working as a freelancer.

In the year 2014 Ankush came up with his own venture PSSAMTEK MEDIA LTD. which organizes India's biggest animation and cartoon film festival - "India International Animation and Cartoon Film Festival" (also known as IIACFF). He is currently the Festival Director of IIACFF and Managing Director of PSSAMTEK MEDIA LTD.

The festival gives a platform to Indian animators to showcase their most inspired work in front of eminent jury members and audiences from around the world. The company also aims to promote and implement animation as a curriculum in schools. The festival has collaborated with one of India’s finest VFX studio Redchillies.vfx to come on board as its Placement Partner.

Other work
Apart from being the festival director, Ankush works as a freelance video editor and also manages his media house. Nandi also arrange seminar, talkshow and workshop on animation and cartoon.

Reference
http://www.mydigitalfc.com/companies/pssamtek-media-iiacff-tie-teach-animation-469

http://www.festivalslive.com/iiacff-extends-submission-deadline-to-1st-september