An Engineered Dream (a documentary film)

An Engineered Dream follows the lives of four teenagers who travel from different corners of India to Kota, a coaching city where they cage themselves in cubicle-sized rooms in order to prepare for one of the toughest undergraduate engineering exams in the world with an acceptance rate of less than 1 percent.

Awards –
1. Best Non-Feature Film at 67th National Film Awards (for Year 2019)
2. Jury Prize at 11th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India
3. Special Mention at 12th Film Southasia, Nepal
4. Best Documentary at 3rd Independent Film Festival of Chennai

Film Festivals
5. 15th Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China (Nominated for Golden Kapok Award)
6. 24th Kolkata International Film Festival, India
7. 13th Jogja Netpac Asian Film Festival, Indonesia (Asian Perspectives Section)
8. 18th River to River Florence Indian Film Festival, Italy
9. 6th Kolkata People’s Film Festival, India
10. 25th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas, France (nominated for Youth and Audience Awards)
11. 7th Lakeside Doc Festival, Nanital India
12. Indian Documentary Film Festival of Bhubneshwar, India
13. 14th Habitat Film Festival, New Delhi
14. 13th SIGNS Film Festival, Kerala
15. 3rd South Asian Short Film Festival, Kolkata
16. 5th Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival, Germany (Competition Section)
17. 16th Tasveer South Asian Film Festival, USA

The film was broadcast in Japan (NHK), India (HistoryTV18), Taiwan (PTS Channel), Singapore (ChannelNewsAsia), China (CCTV), Australia (SBS) and South Korea (KBS).