Amar Kanwar is an independent documentary film maker who was recently awarded the Golden Conch - Best Film Award at the Mumbai International Documentary Film Festival in March 1998 for his film "A Season Outside". Subsequently the film also received several awards at the CEC-UGC documentary film festival in India. His films have also

received Nominations for the Pinnacle Awards and have been screened in several international documentary film festivals .He is also a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for 1998 and is currently working on a film about masculinity and sexuality as part of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

A post graduate in Mass Communication, Film and Television from Jamia Millia Islamia, Amar Kanwar has been working as an independent film maker for ten years now. He has directed over 40 documentaries in this period (all of which have been broadcast) and has consistently worked on issues of health, ecology, philosophy, labour, law, politics, art and education.