A producer, researcher and filmmaker in subculture & ethnography, Roy Dipankar began early as a non-conforming, artistically debauch A&R (artist & repertoire) for major & world record labels like UMI and EarthSync, producing iconic releases during his tenure that include global names like AR Rahman, Ustad Sultan Khan, Panjabi MC, Bohemia, Sean Rolden and the likes.

Extreme Nation was Roy’s first feature doc – an award winning, critically acclaimed and definitive documentary on the Indian subcontinent’s underground subculture & geopolitics, premiered at the prolific red carpet of Jecheon International Music and Film Festival 2019, South Korea and was also screened at Wacken Open Air in Germany, considered to be one of the world’s biggest metal festivals. Extreme Nation is listed on Doc’n Roll TV – a British Film Institute initiative for underground music docs.

NAFiR, a film that takes a closer look at Indo-Persian Sufi artistry, was his directorial debut and premiered at the 21st Kolkata International Film Festival, 14th Film Dokumenter Festival, Yogyakarta Indonesia & Chennai International Doc & Short Film Festival in 2015.

Roy has worked with the Films Division of India to showcase rare and progressive documentaries and films made through the decades, depicting the nation’s socio-economic, political and cultural landscape; having programmed more than 700 films as festival curator and held regular screenings and panels for community as well as industry development. He has been an Outreach Director for the Indian wing of Doc Society’s Good Pitch initiative in 2017 where he got to work with the Oscar nominated film “Writing With Fire”.

Originally from Mumbai and based out of Chennai, Roy has been a part of both corporate organisations, independent start-ups with projects and people based across the globe. He has recently produced and directed as a part of an anthology of short films which is running successfully on Disney+Hotstar.

Being culturally conscious and ever curious to explore different worlds and their stories; Roy is an active contributor to the subculture eco-system with film, music and the arts. He is currently a part of the global research body called Sonic Street Technologies (SST) which based out of Goldsmiths University of London as a documentarian and research agent. SST is supported by the European Research Council.