Suresh K Goswami

During my long standing career as a professional Chief Executive and Managing Director of many multinationals in Africa and Middle East I had this passionate urge to write, especially about my experiences highlighting sensitive social issues that are manifested in the lives of millions of fellow human beings. But it took me to cross 60 years of my life to listen my inner self and it was at this point that I left whatever I was doing and took to creative writing. I wrote a couple of scripts and two years back I made my first independent film, converting one of my favorite scripts into a multi award winning feature film, “Ziyarat” that earned ample awards and recognition across the globe. Motivated by my first effort, I made another short documentary “My Heroes” which too emerged as a multi award winning film. I continued to write few other stories but concentrated on my book Burning Sapphires which was completed recently and published by Partridge, a Penguin company. In my mind I look forward to pen down many stories from the terror ridden Valley of Kashmir-a paradise lost, which happens to be my mother land.

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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Nationality: India
Resident of: India
Birthdate: 18 Feb, 1950
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Children 2
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
June 2010 till Date Author & Film Maker
Fiction book “Burning Sapphires” published by Partridge Publications, a Penguin Company in June 2013
• Won Honorable Mention Award at Hollywood Book Festival
2014
• Included in Table of Honor Los Angeles 2014
• Winner at the Lit-o-Fest Mumbai, India 2015

During this period I have written many scripts, made some short films and I have made an award winning feature film “Ziyarat” which I wrote, directed, produced and did the cinematography as well.
The film has been acclaimed and awarded Internationally.
• Awarded in Los Angeles new wave International Film Festival
2011
• Awarded in Fame walk International Film Festival, Hollywood
2011
• Screened as a spiritual film in Dhaka International Film Festival
(2012)
• Official selection at International Forum of New Cinema
Calcutta 2011
• Appreciated at Nashville Film Festival 2011
• Appreciated at Nashville Film Festival 2011
• Part of the Mumbai International Film festival Market 2012
• Official selection as the festival bouquet film in Delhi
International Film festival 2012
• Selected for an International Forum on Antiterrorism Peshawar,
Pakistan
• Nominated for the Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial Foundation
Chennai Best Debut Director Award March 2012 Official
selection as the festival bouquet film in Gandhi Nagar Film
festival 2012
• Official selection film in New Horizon International Film Festival,
Tehran, Iran
• Exempted from Entertainment tax in The Jammu &Kashmir
State


Made another award winning documentary film,

“ My Heroes”
• Official selection at Delhi International Film Festival December
2012
• Official Selection at Six Sigma Film festival, March 2012
• Official selection at We Care film Festival, May 2013
• Official Screening at Swimmathon Event February 2013
• Official Selection at Nashik International Film Festival 2014
• Most popular film award at COFFI, six sigma film festival 2013
• Best Film Award at We Care Film Festival (A United Nations
Enabled Film Festival) 2013
• Best Documentary Film International Golden Camera Award at
Nashik International Film festival 2014
• Best Director Award at Rolling Frames Short Film Summit 2014
at Bangalore 6 July 2014
• Award of Merit at Best Shorts Competition, California, USA 2014
• Award of Appreciation at Pink City International Short Film
Festival September 2014