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SELECTED DISCTINCTIONS

Best Short Film, Sweden Film Awards, 2025
Best Micro Short Film, Mokkho International Film Festival, India, 2025
Best Short Film Under 5 Minutes, [Story.Land] International Short Film Fest, Bulgaria, 2025
Best Debut Short Film, Sittannavasal International Film Festival, India, 2025
Official Selection, Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival, Ireland, 2025
Official Selection, New York Istanbul Short Film Festival, USA, 2025
Shortlisted, Commonwealth Short Story Prize, 2017
Award for excellence in Tuberculosis Reporting Reach Lily-MDR-TB media partnership, India 2013
Recognized as one of 25 Young Leaders under 30 by McGill University, Canada 2012
Honored as 100 Young Leaders under 30, Women Deliver, New York, NY, 2013



GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

Project Director: Transmission Regained: Recalling Traditional Lifeways through Intergenerational Oral History in the “World’s Borough “Queens | $150,000 | National Endowment of Humanities | 2025-2026

Co-Director: Multigenerational Engaged Storytelling: Boundary Crossing and Historical Memory |$45,000 | City University of New York Interdisciplinary Research Grant | 2024
https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/multigenerational-engaged-storytelling-1ba09f48-1b3a-40d6-aa03-a4f8b6116191

Principal Investigator:| The argument for meaningful news | PSC-City University of New York |$3,500 | 2024

Principal Investigator: Journalism Handbook Open Education Resources | $12,000 | City University of New York | 2024-2025

Principal Investigator: Open Educational Resources for English First Year Seminar| $11,500 | City University of New York | 2023-2024

Summer Institute, NEH Funded Border Waters
City University of New York, 2023

EDIT Awards, LaGuardia Community College, 2024

Summer Institute, CITA Experiential Learning
City University of New York, 2022

Voicing Poverty Humanities Fellowship, 2021
NEH-Funded. BMCC, City University of New York

Reading and Writing, MLA Summer Teaching Institute, 2021
Columbia University

Summer Institute: Mass Incarceration, 2021
NEH-Funded. LaGuardia Community College

Fellow, Alliance for Historical Dialogue & Accountability
Columbia University, NY | 2012

Media Fellow, Investigated the rise of drug-resistant Tuberculosis
The Union for Lung Diseases, India | 2013

Media Fellow, Reported on fragile ecosystems in India
The Center for Science & Environment, India | 2013

Travel Grant, Covered River gypsies in Bangladesh
European Journalism Center, The Netherlands | 2012

Research Fellow, Documented stories of forgiveness and atonement
Metta Center for Nonviolence, CA | 2012





 
@Bijoyeta Sahoriya Das 2025