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Winner of the Guild of TV prize for the best Documentary Cameraman of the Year, in 2019.
Apal is an independent cinematographer and photographer based in Nainital, India. He has an interest in both documentary and fiction film formats and his body of work includes documentary films, features drama and wildlife, both on celluloid and digital format.
Last year he was awarded Best documentary cameraman of year from Guild of TV cameraman of UK, for his film “Last Train in Nepal”.
He has worked with leading international broadcasters including the BBC, National Geographic, Discovery, ABC, ITV, Channel Four, PBS and Al Jazeera, besides Indian broadcasters. He has experience of working in almost 40 countries, and his commitment to independent film making, specially the documentary film, has seen him collaborate with many well known documentary filmmakers on a wide range of films, from pressing social and political issues, to war, as well as wildlife.
His feature film, ‘Highway’, in the Nepali language was screened at several reputed film festivals around the world, and was part of the main competition section in the Berlin Film Festival 2013.
He also shot another Nepali film ‘Karma’. Besides Nepalese, he has been DOP for feature films in Punjab, Quisa Panjab and Saade Aale. He was climbing cameraperson shooting at Everest, for a television serial titled ‘Everest’ for Oscar award nominated Indian director Ashutosh Gowariker.
He has shot over 25 feature length documentary films. Among his significant partnerships is “Being Indian”, a series on a cross section of children from different sections of society produced by Rockhopper TV, London. From the series, ‘Biru’ was chosen the Best Film of the year 2006 on the network. For BBC world he has also shot documentary series, “Survival”, “Kill and Cure”, and the “Hot cities” and independent films amongst others. He was cameraman for the award winning series “Himalayan Hill railways” on the mountain trains for Otty, Shimla and Darjeeling. He has also shot another series on cross boarder railways, across, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Both these series were originally commissioned for BBC, and since have been shown of leading broadcasters.
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