Quark Workshops

Filmmaker, Photographer, and Director in India

Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl (Top Quark Films)

(+91-9810 367244)

Nandan & Kavita are independent filmmakers and media-trainers with over 40 films to their credit, many of them feature-length.

After their Masters in World Literature and a diploma in journalism, Kavita reported for the Indian Express and Nandan worked as a television journalist for seven years, in what they call their previous life.

Of these, two fruitful years spent in the northeast India changed their lives.

In 1996, they quit their jobs to follow their dreams.

Over two decades into filmmaking, their films are poignant portraits of these times, often blurring the thin line between documentary and cinema.

Besides other awards, they have been honoured with the prestigious National Film Award fortheir films thrice:

‘Cotton for my shroud’: Silver Lotus - Best Investigative Film / National Film Awards–2011; [Headline Film: World Investigative Film Week @ London-2013]

‘Candles in the wind’: Special mention / National Film Awards–2013; [World Premiere @ Thessaloniki-Greece]

‘I cannot give you my Forest’: Silver Lotus - Best Film on Environment / National Film Awards–2014.

As media-trainers and knowledge-partners, they offer workshops to initiate inquisitive minds into filmmaking under the banner-Quark Workshops.

They have offered more than thirty Workshops for organisations like the Films Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting; Educational institutions in India, Australia and London; at important Film Festivals like International Film Festival of India (IFFI-Goa).

They have also taught Photography and Video-Production at with the Department of Culture and Media Studies, Central University of Rajasthan.

Nandan is also an avid photographer. In 2009, he had a 30-day solo exhibition of his photographs at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

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A window into select Quark Workshops:

4 days @ IFFI-2016

3 days @ Kolkata (

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