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Dylan Mohan Gray
Alma materDartmouth College, Central European University
Occupation(s)Director, producer, screenwriter

Dylan Mohan Gray is an Indian and Canadian filmmaker. His documentary feature film

Indian cinema history (five weeks). An official selection at over 100 leading film festivals which was honoured with major awards and accolades worldwide,[2] Fire in the Blood altered the global conversation around access to essential medicine, and in 2018 was named one of "26 landmark documentary films of the past seven decades" in a major retrospective curated by legendary documentarian John Pilger.[3]

Dylan directed

Filmfare Award, in 2021.[8]

Dylan's mid-length film on the future of global health and human rights, From Durban to Tomorrow (2020), shot in six countries on three continents, was selected at over 100 film festivals and won over 35 international awards (as of December 2021).[9][10] His narrative feature script, The Last Day of Winter (co-written with Vikramaditya Motwane), was incubated at the Sundance Institute | Mumbai Mantra Screenwriting Lab. 

He used to teach as the Visiting Professor of History (exploring intersections between history and film) at the Central European University in Budapest, where he had earlier completed his MA, and in 2016 was chosen from over 13,000 graduates to receive the CEU's inaugural Alumni Impact Award. 

He lives and works in Mumbai.[11]

Early life

Dylan Mohan Gray, Agra, 2005

Born on

park warden, Gray grew up with a keen interest in theatre, first as a child actor, then later moving into writing and directing plays, followed soon thereafter by videos (often using equipment borrowed from school sports programs).[citation needed
]

He was originally trained as a contemporary historian and expected to continue his career in academia, but began working in the film industry after a chance meeting in Budapest with a former acting colleague who was there working as an assistant director with David Cronenberg. He would go on to serve in various key capacities (often credited as "D. Dylan Gray") on international feature films in over thirty countries worldwide, working in close collaboration with numerous acclaimed directors including Fatih Akin, Peter Greenaway, Paul Greengrass, Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair.[11]

Gray studied

Budapest University of Economics. He holds graduate degrees in History from the Central European University and the University of the State of New York, with research focussed on historiography and geographic dimensions of identity.[12] He was also a resident in Film at Canada's famed Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.[citation needed
]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ http://fireintheblood.com
  2. IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ "The Power of the Documentary: Breaking the Silence | MCA Australia".
  4. ^ "Netflix's Bad Boy Billionaires: Freedom Of Speech Vs Trial By Media". 16 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Bad Boy Billionaires: India on Netflix TOP 10".
  6. ^ "Bad Boy Billionaires, Money Heist The Phenomenon, Most Popular Documentaries on Netflix". 10 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Netflix Top Viewing Lists Reveal India's Huge Film Appetite". 10 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Winners of the MyGlamm Filmfare OTT Awards 2021". 11 December 2021.
  9. ^ "From Durban to Tomorrow (2020 film)". IMDb.
  10. ^ "From Durban to Tomorrow Screenings and Awards".
  11. ^ a b "The Crew".
  12. ^ https://www.cycleformsf.in/unnicycles/dylan-mohan-gray/
  13. ^ "Filmfest Hamburg | Feierliche Preisverleihung bei Filmfest Hamburg". Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  14. ^ a b "Awards News".
  15. ^ "Awards | DOXA Documentary Film Festival". Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
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