ABHAYA SIMHA
B I O - F I LMO G R A PHY
CONTACT
Email: abhayaftii@gmail.com
Website: www.abhayatalkies.com
EDUCATION
Film
studies
Three Year Post Graduation Diploma
in Film Direction
FILMOGRAPHY
FEATURE FILM
- GUBBACHIGALU (95min/ 35mm/ color/ Kannada – EST/
2008)
- Golden Lotus (National Award) for the Best
Children’s Film 2008
- Official selection to the Indian Panorama,
IFFI 2008
- Official selection to the Toronto Indian
Children’s Film Festival 2008
- Official selection to Los Angeles Independent
Film Festival 2008
- Official selection to NY Independent Film
Festival 2008
- Best Family Feature Film award at NYIF
Festival 2008
- Official Selection to the Kolkatta
International Film Festival 2008
- Official selection to the IFF Bangalore 2009
- Official selection to the International Film
Festival of Lucknow 2009
- Official selection to the Habitat Film Festival, Delhi 2009
- SHIKARI (120min/ 35mm/ color/ Kannada – EST/ 2012)
- Legendary Malyalam actor Mammootty is acting in this bi-lingual feature film titled Shikari. The film is presently under post production. The film is scheduled to release soon. This will be the first feature film for the actor in Kannada
- SAKKARE (120min / 35mm / color / Kannada / 2013)
- Released in 2013
MUSIC VIDEO
- RAB JAANE (4.25min/ 16mm/ Hindi/ 2006) for EUPHORIA
- SPIRIT OF YOUTH NEXT (5min/ DV/ English/ 2007) About
youth of
FICTION SHORT FILMS
- ONE FINE DAY (17 min/ DV/ English/ 2003)
- MIRCH MASALA (12 min/ DV/ Hindhi/ 2003)
- WATCH OUT (12 min/ DV/ Silent/ 2004)
- Screened at Big Mountain International Film
- SEA SIDE STORY (11 min/ DV/ English/ 2004)
- Screened at International Film Festival of
- Screened at Big Mountain International Film
Festival
- YAKSHOTTAMA (11 min/ 35mm/ Kannada/ 2005)
- NINAAD (21 min/ 35mm/ Hindi/ 2006)
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
- GEMINUS – a glimpse in to their world.
- MANGALORE – tradition of traditions.
- YAKSHOTTAMARA KALAGA – Yakshagana Prasanga.
- POORVA RANGA – Specialization in Yakshagana.
- KARKI HASYAGARA – Particular style in Yakshagana.
- CHILDREN’S TROUPE – Documentary on Children’s troupe
Yakshagana.
- COMIC ZONE – the world of Indian comic books.
- COMIC SITUATIONS IN YAKSHAGANA – Yakshagana.
- SOLO SINGER AND THE
- NEW DAY IN TRANSWORKS – A Corporate film for Aditya
Birla group.
- BRAIN FACTORY – Documentary on brain drain phenomena
in
- CINEMA! CINEMA – About young filmmakers in
- COLORS OF ADMINISTRATION - Youth and Politics in
- GLOBALIZATION! – A sneak view in to the understanding
in
- IN SEARCH OF NOTHINGNESS – What God means.
- CLUTCHES OF CULTURE – The great debate of
preservation of culture.
- ANANTA PAYANA – Documentary film on Dr. U.R.Anantha
Murthy.
- VOICES FROM THE VALLEY – a Documentary about Kashmiri
Pandits.
- YOUNG ARMY OF BUREAUCRATS - IAS and
- ANANTA SADHYATEGALU – life and achievements of Anat
Kumar Hegde.
- IN THE SHADES OF KADAMBA – a corporate film for
Kadamba – an NGO in Sirsi.
- NEW DAWN! – on the occasion of Vishvamangala
gau-Grama Yatra.
- BADAGU TITTU YAKSHAGANA – Dondi Yakshagana experiment
documentation.
- KAUSHALYA ABHIVRUDDHI - A docu-Drama for KVTSDC.
- M&G GRANITES - Corporate film.
- EKAVYATI YAKSHAGANA - Solo Performance in Yakshagana.
- ASHOKAVANA - An experiment in private forest conservation.
- PRERANA - Insight into an NGO
Other
works
- Visiting faculty at the BITS for film making course.
- Represented young Indian film
makers at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009 Sponsored by the
Goethe Institute, Bangalore.
- Was a part of Rotary Group Study Exchange to USA and Canada in 2011.
- Writings published on various important dailies in Kanada.
- Research paper on Tulu Cinema presented in film Chennai symposium.
Abhaya Simha