Shoma A. Chatterji

Shoma A. Chatterji is a freelance journalist, film scholar and author based in Kolkata. She has been contributing to around a dozen print media and net publications. She won the National Award for Best Film Critic in 1991 and for Best Book on Cinema in 2002 for Parama and Other Outsiders – the Cinema of Aparna Sen. She received a post-doctoral senior research fellowship from the Indian Council of Social Science Research (2010-2012). In 2012, she was bestowed the Lifetime Achievement Samman from the Rotary Club of Calcutta Metro City under the auspices of Rotary International for her contribution to writing on cinema.

Shoma has authored 34 published books; while a few are works of fiction, others are books on cinema and gender.

She did her PhD in 2008. She has juried and presented papers at several film festivals, conferences and seminars in India and abroad.