Amrit Gangar has authored / co-authored several books on cinema in English and Gujarati. He has curated and organized programmes for film festivals in India and abroad, and for Screen Unit, the film club he headed for over two decades. He has contributed to national and international dailies, journals, and books on cinematography and art. He has been an Indian correspondent to Film International, an Iranian Film Quarterly published from Tehran. He regularly writes for the bilingual contemporary art quarterly ART iT, published from Tokyo. Recently he presented the Cinema of Prayoga programme at the Tate Modern, London. As the Founder Director of Datakino, he has set up the database for the Films Division’s production of documentary, short and animation films from 1949 to 1993. Has curated, co-curated or contributed to several Indian film exhibitions abroad, including Devi Diva at Musee des Arts Asiatique, Nice, France; Kali, a program of Indian short films about Goddess Kali presented at Gallery Espace Croise, Roubaix, France; India Express at Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; Bollywood in Switzerland at the Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland; Experimenta, Mumbai, India, et al.

He was the executive producer for six short films made for the Mumbai-based Kala Ghoda Festival, 1999. The short films directed by him include Harbour Line Stories, Etc., world premiered in Jakarta in November 2001; co-director of the short film Bombay Lunch on the dubbawallas (lunch-box carriers) of Mumbai; Temples in Trains (2007) and Ganesha on the Beach (being edited).

Won an international award for his significant contribution to the film club movement in India at Berlin in 1989. In 2002, the Cinematographers’ Combine honored him with a trophy for his writing and curatorial work for cinematography. The University of Mumbai honored him with a silver plaque for his contribution to the book “Photobiography of the University of Mumbai” (2007)

He was on the international jury of the 4th International Short Film Festival of IYCS, Tehran, 1999.
 

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