Manoj Barpujari
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Manoj Barpujari, a film critic and a journalist based in Guwahati, received the Swarna Kamal for the best film critic at the National Film Awards (2011). He was a member at a time of three film critics associations in India – FIPRESCI, Film Critics Circle of India (FCCI), and Indian Film Critics Association (IFCA). Representing the Indian chapter of Fipresci mainly, of which he is a member till date, he served as juror at several well known international film festivals including those of Busan, Hong Kong, Port of Spain, Almaty,[1] Dhaka, Kerala, Kolkata,[2] Bengaluru, and Hyderabad.[3] Besides, he covered the Times BFI London Film Festival twice as an accredited journalist (2005 and 2008). He conducted workshops on film criticism at the University of West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad (2012), Cotton University under the auspices of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) with Gauhati Cine Club (2023), University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (2023) and J.B. College, Jorhat (2017) etc. He had also presented documentaries from the North-East India at the media and communications department of Goldsmiths College, London (2008). He is an executive member of the India chapter of the international federation of film critics (FIPRESCI) and serves as a member of the editorial board of its web journal E-CineIndia.
Swarna Kamal "For his understanding of the medium of cinema. His writings can be broadly classified into three areas: (1) Discussion on objective of cinema, (b) The craft of cinema, and (c) Cinema in North-East Indian and Assamese. Barpujari emphasis the significance of craft and promotion of constructive cinema, i.e., cinema which is not only entertainment. He has a social perspective with cinematic and creative sensibility".[4]