Fowzia Fathima

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Fowzia Fathima
Born
Alma materFilm and Television Institute of India
Occupation(s)Cinematographer, film director
Years active1998–present
Known forMitr, My Friend
SpousePradeep Cherian
Children2
AwardsKerala State Television Award (2015)

Fowzia Fathima is an Indian film cinematographer, producer, academician and director. Fowzia is known for her cinematography on feature films such as Mitr, My Friend 2012, Gulumaal: The Escape 2009 and Uyir 2006. She is an intuitive practitioner of Cinematography[1] across media technologies, a hands-on Academic with an eye trained in history of art practices along with a wide range of experience in Film Production and Teaching in contemporary cinema based in India.[2]

Fowzia Fathima, an alumnus of Film and Television Institute of India,[3] has also worked as professor and head of department of cinematography at SRFTI and has directed short film Infected that screened at Busan International Film Festival.[4] Fowzia also part of “ Indian Women Cinematographers Collective" connecting most practicing professionals in the country today, a forum that functions as a peer group to share experiences and lead founded 2017.[5]

Career

Started career as an assistant to P.C. Sreeram, Fowzia made her debut as an independent camera person with the Revathi directed film Mitr, My Friend, along with an all female technical crew.[1] Fowzia is also the first ever independent woman cinematographer in Malayalam cinema as well as the force behind Indian Women Cinematographers' collective.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Filmography

As director of photography

Year Film Language Director
2024 Train Tamil Mysskin
2015 Aggedu Nayaga Malayalam Short Film-Kerala state Television Award for best Cinematography, Directed by Sindhu Sajan
2013 Infected Hindi Director
2012 Choker Paani Bengali Docu-feature Shyamal Karmakar[14][15]
2009 Gulumaal: The Escape Malayalam V. K. Prakash
2009 Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai Tamil Krishnan Gomatam
2008 Silandhi Tamil Aadirajan
2006 Uyir Tamil Samy
2004 In the Shadow of the Cobra English Ted Nicolaou
2003 Whistle Tamil Jery & JD
2003 Kucch To Hai Hindi Anil V. Kumar
2002 Ivan Tamil R.Parthipan
2002 Mitr, My Friend English Revathi[16]

Direction and cinematography

Year Film Details
2017 Nadiyude Moonaam Kara[17] Malayalam Fiction 62 Minutes

References

  1. ^ a b Palicha, Paresh C. (15 January 2014). "The way she sees it". The Hindu.
  2. ^ "A female perspective". 8 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Cinematographer Fowzia Fathima about women's participation in IFFK 2017".
  4. ^ "Short film 'Infected' goes to Busan International Film Festival – Times of India".
  5. ^ "Indian Women Cinematographers Collective".
  6. ^ "The crisis of confidence: Collective sigh against herogiri". 26 December 2017.
  7. ^ "Women get taken advantage of in the industry".
  8. ^ "Cinematographer launches group to assist upcoming professionals in the field". 8 March 2017.
  9. ^ "7 Indian Women Cinematographers We Should Know About". 7 December 2017.
  10. ^ "Glitterati".
  11. ^ "Fowzia Fathima, Shalini Agarwal conduct workshop on practicals of handling camera, sound recording". Archived from the original on 17 October 2018.
  12. ^ "A female perspective". 10 March 2017.
  13. ^ "Women cinematographers: Through a more equal lens". 24 March 2017.
  14. ^ "Nandigramer Chokher Pani". Moviebuff.com.
  15. ^ "Film producer, Nandigram villagers detained for protesting". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 11 November 2012.
  16. ^ ""Mitr-My Friend"". The Hindu. 15 February 2002. Archived from the original on 25 March 2002.
  17. ^ Kumar, P. k Ajith (13 March 2017). "When a woman manned the camera". The Hindu.

External links

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