Overview

• Roy won Best Director in the Orizzonti section at the 82nd Venice Film Festival for her debut feature Songs of Forgotten Trees.
• In her speech she also dedicated the award to the people of India and said, "I might upset my country but it doesn't matter anymore."
• The Mumbai-set drama centers on the relationship between two migrant women and stars Naaz Shaikh and Sumi Baghel.
• The film was presented by Anurag Kashyap, and Roy said she made it with an all-male team, calling gender "literally secondary."
• Raised in Narayanpur in Purulia, Roy studied English literature, worked in the corporate sector, and later trained in acting at Anupam Kher’s Actor Prepares.