Prakash Deka

Prakash Deka (aka Pranjal Deka) is a filmmaker primarily based totally in Mumbai. Prakash's debut function movie as a Writer, Director, Producer, Costume clothier, and Art Director, referred to as 'Fireflies-Jonaki Porua' (2020), gained a National Award in the 67th National Films Award (2021). The movie additionally bagged the Best Film award on the eighth Assam State Film Awards (along with Best Costume, Best Music Direction, and Best Actor), other than numerous awards at reputed movie fairs throughout the globe.

Making records because the first queer feminist function movie from Assam, Fireflies-Jonaki Porua has been invited for unique screenings in reputed movie fairs in addition to universities, and has obtained overwhelmingly tremendous opinions from academics, activists, and the overall audience. The movie has additionally been selected as a doctoral studies problem in prestigious universities gaining knowledge of impactful queer cinemas across the world.

Prakash's 2nd function movie, "The Woodcutter," as a creator, director, and producer, whose put-up manufacturing has neared completion, become decided on for the distinguished NFDC Screenwriters Lab 2021 through a quite aggressive process. Two function movie tasks written via way of means of Prakash - one referred to as "Laltu" (Hindi function, primarily based totally on slum children) is in pre-manufacturing, and the alternative referred to as "Broken Arrow" (Assamese function, primarily based totally on immigration from Bangladesh to the Northeast) is quickly to be released.

Prakash became additionally the casting director for Fireflies-Jonaki Porua, The Woodcutter, and every other significantly acclaimed Assamese function movie referred to as Soul of Silence, other than being the manufacturing clothier for each Fireflies-Jonaki Porua and The Woodcutter. The Woodcutter is now gearing up for its competition run. Fireflies have been decided to be screened at the Twin Cities Film Festival, Minneapolis, and the Indian Film Festival in Ireland this year, amongst different venues. 'Jonaki Porua' is likewise a professional choice for the Independent Prisma Film Awards, Rome, for the October edition. For the self-taught filmmaker Deka, creating a movie approximately the LGBTQ, became a transferring experience.

An upcoming self-taught creator and filmmaker from Assam, Prakash Deka, who hails from a theater background, makes his cinematic debut with this socially applicable movie. Deka has been pretty careful in treading at the movie's touchy problem, at the same time as losing mild at the opposed situations transgender human beings are subjected to. Deka's wife, Bitopi Dutta, a Ph.D. studies student primarily based in Dublin, has additionally been part of the innovative process, other than appearing in the movie.