Rohit Gupta
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Rohit Gupta Mumbai, India |
| Residence | New York City, United States |
| Education | Master of Business Administration |
| Alma mater | Wingate University, North Carolina |
| Occupation | Film director, film producer, Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Website | dotandfeatherentertainment |
Rohit Gupta (pronounced [ˈroːɦɪt̪ ɡuːptə] is a film director, film producer who resides in the United States. He is known for directing Life! Camera Action..., Another Day Another Life, Midnight Delight, winning several awards & nominations.
Born into a business family of Mumbai, Gupta earned his MBA degree from Wingate University in North Carolina. He later joined New York Film Academy for a four-week filmmaking program to explore his interest in behind-the-scenes world of filmmaking. The initial film assignments he was working on for classes became inspiration for later works. His first film Another Day Another Life a four-minute suspense thriller flick was chosen as an official selection at the Short Film Corner - Cannes Film Festival in 2009. It attracted enough attention to encourage Gupta to seriously attempt a career as a filmmaker.New York Film Academy offered Gupta scholarship to extend his stay in to the one-year program. He dropped out in four months to shoot his first feature, the inspiring family-drama movie Life! Camera Action... with a two-member crew in three languages English, Hindi, Punjabi as part of the story. Gupta followed with a comedy feature Midnight Delight.
In 2010, Gupta was invited to speak at the Sensoria, an annual week-long film event held every year in Charlotte, North Carolina, where education connects with professionals creating cinematic magic in Hollywood. At Sensoria George Cochran, the event founder & a former Directors Guild of America commercial film director and Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Film Office honored and felicitated Gupta as an industry leader and mentor for the students of the Central Piedmont Community College Arts and filmmaking department. Gupta was again invited to speak at Sensoria in 2012 to share, as quoted by Sarah Perry, "how he made a five-minute film for $100 called Another Day Another Life that a little festival called Cannes chose as an official selection; and how his other film Life! Camera Action... has toured the world and won top awards at renowned festivals".
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