Tanmay Shah
Tanmay Shah (born 1989 in Ahmedabad, India) is a filmmaker from Gujarat. He works as a director, producer, writer, editor, cinematographer, and screenwriter. He is the founder and CEO of FridayFictionFilms and is known for 52FilmsProject and the short documentary Pinch of Salt.
He studied information technology and worked as a project trainee at Physical Research Laboratory and as a research associate at IIT Bombay. While at IIT Bombay, a friend asked him to write a story for a video game, which inspired him to become a filmmaker. He left his job and returned to Ahmedabad to make films.
In 2015, Shah started 52 zero-budget short films in a year on various social issues. The first film was released on January 2 on the FridayFictionFilms YouTube channel, and a new short film came out every Friday for 52 weeks. The films were shot in Ahmedabad with about 170 actors, many of them non-professionals. In 2016, he received the Limca Book of Records for this achievement and gave a TEDx talk at TEDxBITSHyderabad about the project.
Also in 2016, he made a 12-minute Gujarati documentary about the lives of 30,000 salt pan workers in Kutch, highlighting their hardship and cultural music. The film screened at international festivals and won 12 awards.
In 2021, he released a 26-minute documentary about a specially-abled artist, focusing on their struggles and hope to use art to bring positive change. It won an award at the International Film Festival in Chicago.
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