Shehnad Jalal is a

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera ...

based in

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

, India. He made his debut as a Cinematographer in the film ''

Chitrasutram ''Chitrasutram (The Image Threads)'' is a 2010 Malayalam film, written & directed by Vipin Vijay, produced by Altaf Mazid, Zubeen Ahmad, Sushanta Roy under the banner of Unknown Films. The film was also supported by Hubert Bals Film Fund, Rotte ...

''. The film won him the

Kerala State Film Award for Best Cinematography The Kerala State Film Award The Kerala State Film Awards are the film awards for a cinema of kerala, motion picture made in Kerala. The awards started in 1969 by the Department of Cultural Affairs (Kerala), Department of Cultural Affairs ...

in the year 2010. The documentary, A Pestering Journey won him the Navaroze Contractor Award for the Best Documentary Cameraman at the 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2011., He won a nomination for Achievement in Cinematography at the

Asia Pacific Screen Awards The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) is an international cultural initiative overseen by the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and headquartered in Australia, sometimes called "Asia-Pacific Oscars". In order to realise UNESCO's goals of promoting a ...

2017, for his work in the movie

Loktak Lairembee (film) ''Loktak Lairembee'' (), also known as ''Lady of the Lake'', is a 2016 Indian Manipuri film directed and produced by Haobam Paban Kumar. It stars Ningthoujam Sanatomba and Sagolsem Thambalsang in the lead roles. The film had participated in ma ...

(Lady of the Lake) in the

Meitei language Meitei (; ) also known as Manipuri ), is a Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India. It is the official language and the lingua franca of Manipur and an additional official language in four districts of Assam. It is one of the scheduled ...

, directed by

Haobam Paban Kumar Haobam Paban Kumar is an Indian filmmaker from state of Manipur. Kumar's films and documentaries have been screened in several places across the globe. Kumar's debut feature film '' Loktak Lairembee'' (Lady of the Lake) won the National Film Aw ...

. The film had its world premiere at the

Busan International Film Festival The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF; ), formerly the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), held annually in Haeundae District, Busan, South Korea, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. The first festival, held fro ...

2016 in the New Currents and was selected for the Berlinale FORUM 2017. The film won the Golden Gateway award for Best Film at the Mumbai International Film Festival 2016 and the National Award for the Best Indian Film on Environment Conservation, 2016. Shehnad Jalal is a member of the

Indian Society of Cinematographers Indian cinematographers work in a number of regional film centres: Mumbai for films in Marathi and Hindi, Hyderabad for Telugu films, Chennai for Tamil films, Kochi for films in Malayalam, Kolkata for Bengali films, Bangalore for Kannada films ...

(ISC).

Education

After completing his Post Graduation in Commerce from the Kerala University, in 2002, he joined the

Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) is a film and television institute located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Named after renowned Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, the institute provides higher and professional education and tech ...

(SRFTI),

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for Post Graduate Diploma in

Cinematography Cinematography () is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens (optics), lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sen ...

. After graduating in 2006, he started his career as an assistant to the renowned Cinematographer

Venu The ''venu'' (Sanskrit: ; /मुरळि; ''muraļi'') is one of the ancient transverse flutes of Indian classical music. It is an aerophone typically made from bamboo, that is a side blown wind instrument. It continues to be in use in the ...

and went on to work with him in several feature films, documentaries and television commercials.

Filmography

Feature films

Documentaries

Short films

Music video

External links

*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4789171/ *https://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/lady-of-the-lake-review-1201992238/ *https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/lady-lake-review-937170

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jalal, Shehnad 1978 births Living people Artists from Thiruvananthapuram Malayalam film cinematographers Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute alumni Cinematographers from Kerala 21st-century Indian photographers