Shaunak Sen is an Academy award nominated filmmaker and writer based in Delhi. His film  ‘All That Breathes’, received nominations at the 2023 Academy and BAFTA awards. The film won awards at Cannes, Sundance, BFI London, IDA and Cinema Eye, and 24 other film festivals.

Cities of Sleep (2016), his first feature-length documentary, was shown at various major international film festivals and won 6 international awards.

Shaunak has received grants from Sundance, Tribeca, IDFA - Amsterdam amongst others. He has received the Pro Helvetia residency in Switzerland, the Sarai-CSDS grant, the Charles Wallace grant as visiting scholar at Cambridge University. Shaunak holds a PhD and has published in journals including Bioscope and Widescreen.