Sourya Dipta has a master’s degree in Film Studies from Calcutta’s Jadavpur University. A resident of Bengal, India, he found cinema during high school when there was a desperate need for hope to beat the everyday drudgery of life. His first film, In Their Own Time, made on a $1,000 budget, won the best feature-length documentary at the Come On, Doc! film festival held at KC Grad in Serbia. The film was awarded monetary compensation of €800, which helped recoup the entire production expenses. Aged 28 now, Sourya was only 23 when the film’s production had begun. The film will be part of the DokuBox section of the DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival and will screen in Japan at the nineteenth Kanazawa film festival in 2025. In Their Own Time was also part of the MiradasDoc Market Catalog in Spain and screened at the Le Grand Action Theatre in Paris as part of the Gange Sur Seine, an Indo-French, film festival. In Their Own Time was awarded with Prix Special du Jury in Documentary at the Gange Sur Seine film festival. The film was awarded as the best international film at the Legacy Theatre Independent Film Festival and received Jury Mention at the Turicine Film Festival held in Ecuador. It has also been part of multiple film festival screenings in countries spanning Italy, Mexico in theatres like the Cineteca Nuevo Leon, and several in the Americas, Turkey, and Bangladesh, and Greece amongst other countries. In Their Own Time has also become part of OSA Blinken Archivum's film archival initiative in Hungary. Sourya Dipta is now currently working on a fictional road trip feature film.
