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DIRECTOR, WRITER, CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST
UNITED KINGDOM · INDIA · WORLDWIDE
I'm Souvid “JIJO” Datta, a director and screenwriter working across fiction, documentary and the worlds taking shape around us. I look for the human question inside a bigger story: what we long for, what we stand to lose, and what we might become.
"we see things not as they are, but as we are ― Anaïs Nin"
My work moves between intimate lives and larger forces — culture, power, science and change. I build each film around people, with the ambition to make something complex feel immediate, and something unfamiliar feel close.
"When reality is too complex, we turn to stories to give it form. ― Jean Luc Godard"
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Where radical imagination can become reality.
The world and its rules are changing faster than most of us can keep up with - warping how we work, what we trust, and the lives we imagine for ourselves. Making sense of humanity’s changing relationship to technology is one of the greatest storytelling challenges of our age.
I bring fifteen years directing scripted film and TV, ads and brand design, observational documentaries, social policy research, and investigations. That work has taken me from the battlefields of Iraq to the closed rooms of the British Parliament, and from the deserts of Inner Mongolia to the frontier labs of San Francisco. Across all of it, I’ve met people fighting for a better future. People who share more than they know. I want to tell stories that bring us closer - and make that better future feel possible, and worth building.
For directing commissions, original stories and ambitious creative collaborations, get in touch.
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