Bipuljit Basu, an IDA Award-nominated filmmaker, bridges social urgency with cinematic craft, moving fluidly between auteur-driven storytelling and urgent human-rights concerns, earning both critical and institutional recognition worldwide. An IDFA and Sundance alumnus, Bipuljit is an emerging voice in Indian cinema, recipient of major international support for his feature documentary Redlight to Limelight, including Sundance Institute, Hot Docs, IDFA Bertha Fund Europe, BBC Storyville, InMaat Foundation, YLE, DMZ Docs, Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK, National Film Centre of Latvia.
Redlight to Limelight (2025) premiered at Sheffield DocFest and has screened at leading international festivals including IDFA, DMZ Docs, FIPADOC, Krakow FF, San Sebastian FF, Doc Point Helsinki, Riga FF etc. He is also nominated for Latvia’s National Film Award Lielais Kristaps 2026 and received the Grand Prix at FIPADOC. Bipuljit was nominated for the IDA Documentary Awards in the categories of Best Writing and Best Cinematography in 2025. BBC 4 started broadcasting his film from March 2026 onward.
Midnight Blues (2021), a Short Film premiere at the Kolkata International Film Festival (2021)/Audience Choice award at SIFF (USA)/Distributed by the Library of Congress, USA.
