Goutam Ghose launched into documentaries, group theatre and photo
journalism in 1973. His documentary, Hungry Autumn won him the main award at
the Oberhausen Film Festival. Since then Ghose has produced several
documentaries on personalities like Ustad Bismillah Khan, Satyajit Ray and HH
Dalai Lama, in addition to ten feature films and a number of advertisement,
corporate and short films. He has won fifteen National Awards, besides Filmfare
Awards and a number of international awards like Silver Balloon, Nantes Film
Festival, UNESCO Award at Venice, Golden Semurg at Tashkent, Fipresci Award and
Red Cross Award at Verna Film Festival. He is the only Indian to win the
coveted Vittori Di Sica Award and was awarded the Knighthood of the Star of
Italian Solidarity in 2008.
