Krishnendu Bose

Earthcare Productions Private Limited

BIOGRAPHIE

After acquiring a Masters degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics in 1985, Krishnendu Bose set up Earthcare Productions, making films on wildlife conservation and environmental justice. Since then, he has produced several international award-winning documentaries. His film, Tiger the Death Chronicles won the conservation award at International Wildlife Festival in Montana USA. The Latent City, a film on Public Art and the City, has been showcased in the Indian Panorama in 2009 and won the Grand Prix at Document. Art film Festival in Romania. Missing, his film on women and climate change, won the best director award at the Casselle film festival, Italy in 2014. He is the recipient of the CMS-UNEP Prithvi Ratna Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. His film The Tiger Who Crossed the Line, was premiered on Discovery Channel in 2017 and received the National Award for the best environment film in 2017. He was also invited to the UN for a talk on “Conservation in India” to an invited audience of 45 heads of State and Diplomats, in 2018. In 2019, his produced and directed the 6-part series Heroes of the Wild Frontiers was premiered on Discovery Channel, India and is distributed worldwide. Krishnendu also has co-produced, produced and line produced several international award-winning Television shows, prominent among them is Multiple Emmy award-winning The Amazing Race and shows for Netflix and Amazon Prime. For the 8-part series on IPL cricket for Netflix (2018) - “CRICKET FEVER”, he was the producer and Earthcare Productions was the line producer. He is the founding member of, ECO (Earthcare Outreach Trust). ECO works with young adults across South Asia, empowering them with the tools of filmmaking. Some of the partners and supporters have been GIZ, IUCN, UNESCO, MOEF and WWF. He has been a visiting faculty to the National School of Design, Ahmedabad. He is a nominated member of IUCN’s Commission of Education and communication. He has served on the Jury of National Film Awards for fiction and non-fiction and currently is the Indian Ambassador for the Asian Academy Awards, Singapore. Krishnendu lives with his wife Madhurima and two children in Delhi.

FILMOGRAPHIE