Another Day, Another Life

Cast: Benjamin Jacobs and Amneek Sandhu. Written by GiriMohan Coneti; produced, edited and directed by Rohit Gupta. Short film, 4 minutes, suspense thriller, captured in a single seven-hour session as a student exercise. Produced, edited and directed by Rohit Gupta. Presented at the Short Film Corner, Marché du Film — Festival de Cannes (2009), the market’s industry platform rather than the Official Selection. Won Best First Film at the Swansea Bay Film Festival, UK, and again at the International Film Festival Thailand; Best Film Under 45 Minutes at the International Film Festival Ireland; Best Narrative Short at the 28th Goldie Film Awards. Thirteen wins in the published record, and more than thirty official selections on four continents between 2009 and 2012. Broadcast nationwide in India on NDTV Prime on 11 September 2014; distributed online by Pocket Films. - IMDb

(Per Gupta’s own account, the film was shot on a Panasonic DVX100 and cut on a MacBook Pro. His very first Academy exercise, Just Do It! — a one-minute single-take mise-en-scène piece — was polished and released in 2011.)