Amrit Pritam Dutta

Amrit Pritam (MPSE) is a National Film Award winning sound designer and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, popularly known as the Oscar, as well as the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE). He is the recipient along with Resul Pookutty of a Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award in Los Angles and two Producers Guild of India - Apsara Awards. Additionally, Pritam has been conferred with awards by the state governments of Assam, Goa, and Maharashtra. He has served on several notable film juries, including the House of Illusions jury at the Chalachitram National Film Festival, the Assam State Film Awards, and the Goa State Film Awards. Amrit Pritam was born on 4 November 1975, in Jorhat town, Assam. He graduated in Physics from JB College, Jorhat, in 1998. And then did a 3-year Sound Engineering course at the Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Regional Government Film and Television Institute, Guwahati, Assam. Following his education, he moved to Mumbai in 2002 and started working in films, initially, as a FX foley tracklayer, dialogue editor, pre-mixer, production mixer, and sound editor. Amrit Pritam has served on the Academic council of the film Studies dept. of JB College, Jorhat, Assam; and has conducted film workshops and classes at film festivals such as SIFFCY, IFFI Goa and educational venues such as Guwahati University, Cotton University, Tezpur University, and the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).