ICC honour for reputed filmmaker
Screening of Documentary film on the life and works of Girish Kasaravalli titled “Life in Metaphors”-A film by O.P.Srivastava
The Indian Cultural centre, Colombo will be organising Meet the film Director-Padma Shri Dr. Girish Kasaravalli and eminent Cinematographer Mr. Sunny Joseph followed by screening of documentary film on him “Life in Metaphors”. A film by O.P.Srivastava on September 6 at 6.00 pm at ICC auditorium at 16/2 Gregory’s Road, Colombo 7.
Padma Shri Dr. Girish Kasaravalli is an internationally acclaimed Indian film director and one of the pioneers of the parallel cinema. Kasaravalli has garnered fourteen National Film Awards, includingfour Best FeatureFil ms; Ghatashraddha (1977), TabaranaKathe (1986), ThaayiSaheba (1997) and Dweepa(2002). Dr. Girish Kasaravalli has been conferred with Hon. Doctorate from Kuvempu University, Karnataka in 2010. He also is the recipient of “Padma shri”, the highest civilian award from Govt. of India in 2011.He is a gold medalist from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.
Mr. Sunny Joseph is an acclaimed cinematographer with 30 years professional experience and worked in eleven Indian languages filming more than 50 feature films and numerous short qfilms and documentaries. He has also directed 10 short films and two television serials totaling 100 episodes. Sunny Joseph has won many awards for cinematography and direction. His publications include ‘Cinema is Love 24 Times per Second’, ‘The Theme of Darkness in Cinematography’, and ‘Eye and the Infinite Image’. At present Sunny Joseph is the President of Cinematographer’s Union of Malayalam Cinema and Managing Trustee of Indian Society of Cinematographers. As a cinematographer his major works include PIRAVI [dir. Shaji N Karun], VASTHUHARA [dir. G Aravindan], NIZHALKUTHU [dir. Adoor Gopalakrishnan], SANABI [dir. Aribam Shyam Sharma], JANALA [dir. Buddhadeb Dasgupta], TRAIN TO PAKISTAN [dir. Pamela Rooks], KAHINI [dir. Malaya Bhattacharya], MANGAMMA [dir. TV Chandran], GODESSES [dir. Leena Manimekalai], ORU CHERU PUNCHIRI [dir. MT Vasudevan Nair], DAYA [dir. Venu]