Rohit Gupta is a

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and

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who resides in the United States. He is known for directing '' Midnight Delight'', '' Life! Camera Action...'', '' Another Day Another Life'', winning several awards & nominations. Gupta is the founder and owner of Dot & Feather Entertainment production company, Film Festivals To Go (FFTG), and FFTG Awards Film Fest.

Film career

Born into a business family in

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, present-day Mumbai, Gupta earned his MBA from

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before taking a short filmmaking course at the

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. 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 -

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in 2009. The attention the film received prompted Gupta to continue building a film career.

offered Gupta scholarship to extend his stay in to the one-year program. He shot his first feature, the inspiring family-drama movie '' Life! Camera Action...'' with a two-member crew in three languages English,

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as part of the story. Gupta followed with a comedy feature '' Midnight Delight''.

Honors and appearances

In 2010, Gupta was invited to speak at the Sensoria, an annual week-long film event held every year in

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, where education connects with professionals creating cinematic magic in Hollywood. At Sensoria George Cochran, the event founder & a former

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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

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chose as an official selection; and how his other film '' Life! Camera Action...'' has toured the world and won top awards at renowned festivals". In 2011, Gupta was invited as a special guest speaker at the launch of the

's first open house session in India. The event was held at the Four Seasons Hotel, Mumbai. He is credited for being the first alumnus of the New York Film Academy to have made a short film assignment in to a full-length feature film, while in the program. In 2012, Gupta was invited as an honorary member on the Global Artistic Advisory Board of the World Music & Independent Film Festival based in Washington, D.C. Gupta is listed in the

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, India's equivalent of the

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, for creating a national record for the first Indian to shoot a full-length motion picture by just a " two-member crew". In 2013, Symbiosis International University in

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invited Gupta for a guest lecture on Management & Creative aspects of filmmaking. A SIMColloquium, where eminent speakers from the field of media and communication come to interact with students and enable them to understand how the industry works was organized for Gupta's interaction with the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communications (SIMC) students. Gupta was chosen by ''Times Now'' as one of five global Indian nominated from around the world for the "2014 NRI of the Year" award for his "Distinctive Global Achievement in Arts & Entertainment". Gupta was invited to be on the jury for Charlotte 48 Hour Film Project in

for three years in a row (2014, 2015 & 2016). In May 2015, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, invited Gupta as speaker for the seminar titled "Life! Camera Action...". Later in the year,

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invited Gupta to address a seminar to its filmmaking and multimedia students.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

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