Apurba Kishore Bir
Apurba Kishore Bir (often AK Bir, * 1948 in Cuttack, Orissa ) is an Indian cinematographer and film director.
Life
His training as a cameraman he graduated in 1969 with a diploma at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune from. He then worked in the advertising industry, turned documentary and short films. In Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi Bir stood behind the second camera. Since 1991, Bir is also active as a film director. His films deal mainly with the fate of children. In 1996 he was invited as a jury member of the children's film section of the Berlinale, where two years before his film Lavanya Preeti was shown in the children's film competition.
Bir is a three time winner of the National Film Award for Best Cinematography - for Awtar Krishna Kaul's 27 Down in 1974, B. Narsing Rao DAASI in 1989 and his own Adi Mimansa 1992, the Nargis Dutt Award also received a. Baaja was honored in 2003 with a National Film Award for Best Children's Film.
For AK Birs hobbies include painting and writing poems.