19th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2017
Filmmaker in Focus – Gitanjali Rao
Gitanjali
Rao graduated with honors as a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir J. J. Institute
of Applied Art, Mumbai, in 1994. She is a self-taught animator, film maker,
illustrator, teacher and theatre artist.
She has since, independently Produced, Directed and Animated three Award
winning Short films, ‘Orange’, ‘Printed Rainbow’ and TrueLoveStory.
‘Printed Rainbow’, premiered at
Cannes 2006, Critic’s Week, in Competition.
It went on to win the three Awards for the best Short film, at Cannes
2006.
It was also short listed in the
last ten films for the Academy Awards in 2008, besides winning 25 International
Awards and traveling to over a hundred festivals worldwide.
‘TrueLoveStory’ also premiered in
Cannes Critic’s Week 2014. It has been screened at various International
Festivals and won four Awards.
She also has a string of very
popular and award winning animated commercials to her credit. As well as a
graphic novel. Gitanjali also conducts workshops and presentations and has been
in the jury at various International Film Festivals including The Cannes
Critic’s Week 2011. She is currently pursuing her next animation film Bombay
Rose. She has been teaching storytelling, design and 2D animation, in various animation
schools in India.
PRINTED RAINBOW
Animation/English/35mm/15min/color/2006/India
Directed, Animated, Produced by Gitanjali Rao
‘Printed
Rainbow’ is a journey of a lonely old woman and her cat into the fantastical
world of her matchbox collection.
ORANGE
Animation/English/4min/color/2002
Directed, Animated,
Produced by Gitanjali Rao
‘Orange’ is a
conversation between two women about love and the loss of it
CHAI
11min/color/2014
CHAI is a short
film exploring the lives of four tea sellers in India. Merging the mediums of
documentary, fiction and animation, ‘Chai’ is a part of 5 films that describe
India.
BLUE
Animation/01 min/color
Director : Gitanjali Rao
'Blue' is a little girl's dream about exploring space, with her cat.
'Blue' was an exercise in story telling without using words.
It was created in the traditional style of progressive animation using colored pencils on colored paper.
It was made in the days were computers were not used too widely for animtion in India.
Director : Gitanjali Rao
'Blue' is a little girl's dream about exploring space, with her cat.
'Blue' was an exercise in story telling without using words.
It was created in the traditional style of progressive animation using colored pencils on colored paper.
It was made in the days were computers were not used too widely for animtion in India.
GIRGIT
Animation/80 min/color
Director : Gitanjali Rao
'Girgit' ( Chameleon), is a tale of three friends who migrate from different villages to a city like Bombay. The animation style is inspired by the folk and traditional art and crafts of rural India and pursues the task of elevating it to a level beyond that of the kitsch and the exotic. The film is an 80 minute visual spectacle telling a story without words, cutting across boundaries of age and language.
This is also an attempt to bring together modern animators with folk and tribal artists of india, in an effort that they interact and learn from each other, as well as create a new medium for the folk artists to express and monetize their art forms through film and subsequent merchandize.
Director : Gitanjali Rao
'Girgit' ( Chameleon), is a tale of three friends who migrate from different villages to a city like Bombay. The animation style is inspired by the folk and traditional art and crafts of rural India and pursues the task of elevating it to a level beyond that of the kitsch and the exotic. The film is an 80 minute visual spectacle telling a story without words, cutting across boundaries of age and language.
This is also an attempt to bring together modern animators with folk and tribal artists of india, in an effort that they interact and learn from each other, as well as create a new medium for the folk artists to express and monetize their art forms through film and subsequent merchandize.
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