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--Pranabkaich1 (talk) 05:12, 1 June 2016 (UTC) Pranab Kumar Aich is a Film Maker and Photographer. He came to limelight after winning the prestigious SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD CANNES 2009 in France. There he was trained by PANOS PICTURES and some of the legends in photography. He has been making documentary films on several social issues which challenge our lives in India.  The Adventure

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Pranab Kumar Aich
He graduated in photography and visual communication from AJKMCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia,Delhi in 2009. In 2008, his interactions with Hollywood film maker Sharat Raju and Cinematographer Andre Lascaris played a very strong role that shaped his hands on camera Then in 2009, during the World Photography Trip to Cannes, France, He was trained by some of the LEGENDs in photo-documentary from the world like Marry Allen Mark,Tom Ang, Susan Welchman, Adrian Evans and international agency PANOS PICTURES where he also went on to Win SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD CANNES 2009. Being a village boy from Odisha, an ancient cultural epitome of eastern India, with a deep inclination for the rural and unheard India, he landed in the developmental sector in Delhi where he spent 3 years (2005-2007) working on development issues alongside the inspirational Anshu K Gupta, (popularly called THE CLOTHING MAN) volunteering for Goonj which gave him a strong hold on real developmental issues -Children in Poverty, Rural India, Natural Calamities and Women Empowerment Now, with the firm idea and belief in raising untouched issues and bringing unheard voices and hidden heroes to the fore. he started my storytelling journey 8 years back with 2 documentaries on Goonj' s initiative- School to school and Pratibimb. Then came, the story of his own once lush green home town Jajpur affected by massive uncontrolled industrialisation, He made a documentary called ONCE MY VILLAGE which played a significant role in the struggle of the tribals fighting against forced displacement due to massive industrialisation in the State of Odisha Further, there was no stopping. NGOs/Social Organisation communication assignments kept coming. Now, he has completed about 100 productions with more than 30 NGOs/Social and several Development Issues travelling across India. From photo Exhibitions, photo campaigns to Documentary Films, he has been able to generate that extra drive into campaigns and programmes through his films and photos. Recently, for his documentary CITY'S STEP CHILD AND THE DUMPHILL DREAMS he has received 3 AWARDS AND 5 NOMINATIONS from film festivals across the globe, which includes the prestigious BEIJING INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016, China

He has also been assigned as a photographer for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on a 3 years contract. Beyond direct developmental photo-video creation, He has also been honoured as a jurist at the prestigious JEEVIKA FILM FESTIVAL 2013, India. The experience of carrying out several storytelling workshop with school children in India motivated him to start a small initiative called EXTRA CLASS(educating through the audio-visual medium)to generate awareness on degrading nature and environment issues amongst school children.