Rewards from Chasing Difficult Dreams
EncoreNOW Podcast
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Talk Show, PG-13
Kaustuv Mukherjee is a self-taught filmmaker who balances a career in engineering with his passion for cinema. Originally from eastern India, he shares his journey from Boston and Singapore to discovering a creative home in St. Louis, where the warmth of the community inspired him to stay.
Kaustuv reflects on making films without formal training, the thrill of storytelling through visual art, and how his love of still photography and painting evolved into independent filmmaking.
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