Director Chinmoy Sonowal is a documentary filmmaker and a landscape photographer. He has studied creative documentary filmmaking at Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication, New Delhi. He has a keen interest in working for films that revolve around conservation, natural history, and resource politics. His first film Bound By Us, 2019 looked at the impacts of human intervention on a forest bounded by the city of New Delhi. Bound by Us has been part of several domestic festivals including Dharamshala International Film Festival and Kolkata International Film Festival. Our Hoolocks is his first feature-length documentary.