Beena Paul

Bina Paul, hija de padre malayali y madre kannada , se crio en Delhi . ^{[ 2 ]} Tras graduarse en la Universidad de Delhi en 1979 con una licenciatura en psicología , obtuvo un diploma en edición cinematográfica del Instituto de Cine y Televisión de la India (FTII), en Pune , en 1983. ^{[ 3 ]}

Bina got a break as an editor with G. Aravindan's The Seer Who Walks Alone (1985), a documentary on Jiddu Krishnamurti. She went on to work in a few documentaries including Rajiv Vijay Raghavan's Sister Alphonsa of Bharananganam (1986), which won the Best Biographical Film at the 34th National Film Awards.^[4] She made her feature film debut with John Abraham's Amma Ariyan (1986).^[5] Her other films include Padippura (1989), Janmadinam (1997), Agnisakshi (1999). Her work in Revathi's Mitr, My Friend (2002), which had an all-woman crew, won her her first National Film Award.^[6] The following year, she was awarded another National Film Award for the non-feature film Unni. She has also worked in television and has been the recipient of three Kerala State Television Award for Best Editor.^[3]

Apart from editing over 50 documentaries and feature films, Paul has directed four documentaries.^[7] She has collaborated with women filmmakers like Revathi, Suma Josson, Pamela Rooks and Shabnam Virmani.^[3]

Paul played a prominent role in shaping up the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) right from its inception and also served as its artistic director.^[8] She also served as the deputy director (festival) of Kerala State Chalachitra Academy and worked as a senior editor at the Centre for Development of Imaging Technology.^[3] She served as the principal of the L. V. Prasad Film Academy (Thiruvananthapuram campus).^[9] In February 2017, she co-founded the Women in Cinema Collective, India's first association that aims to work towards equal opportunity and dignity of women employees in film industry.^[10]

Beena se casó con el director y director de fotografía Venu , un compañero de estudios en el FTII, en 1983; ^{[ 2 ]} la pareja tiene una hija. ^{[ 11 ]} Los dos han trabajado juntos en varias películas, entre ellas Daya (1998), Munnariyippu (2014) y Carbon (2018), todas dirigidas por Venu. ^{[ 12 ]}

• Mejor edición – Mitr, mi amigo (2002) ^{[ 7 ]}
• Mejor montaje de película no de ficción – Unni (2003) ^{[ 3 ]}

• Mejor editor : Daya (1998) ^{[ 15 ]}
• Mejor editor : Sayahnam (2000) ^{[ 16 ]}
• Mejor editor - Bioscope (2008) ^{[ 16 ]}