Indranil Chakravarty has taught film history and screenwriting over two decades at film institutes in India and abroad, and has made several documentaries. He studied at Presidency College (Calcutta), Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV) in Havana, and earned PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has published extensively in international research journals about biopics, literary biography and cosmopolitanism. His earlier book publications include The New Latin American Cinema, India’s Audiovisual Market, and one in Spanish titled Redescubriendo a Tagore.