CONTACT
 
Email: abhayaftii@gmail.com
Website: www.abhayatalkies.com
www.youtube.com/abhayaftii
 
FILM STUDIES
 
Three Year Post Graduation Diploma in Film
Direction from Film and Television Institute
of India, Pune (FTII)
 
FEATURE FILM
 
GUBBACHIGALU (95min | 35mm | color | KAN – 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| KAN – EST| 2012)
 
  • Legendary Malyalam actor Mammootty acted in
    this bilingual feature film.
  • Official Selection to the Kolkata
    International Film Festival 2012
  • Official selection to the IFF Bangalore 2012
SAKKARE (120min | 35mm | color | KAN | 2013)
 
  • Released in 2013
MUSIC VIDEO
 
  • RAB
    JAANE (4.25min| 16mm| Hindi| 2006) for
    EUPHORIA
  • SPIRIT
    OF YOUTH NEXT (5min| DV| ENG| 2007) about youth
    of India 
FICTION SHORT FILMS
 
  • ONE FINE DAY (17 min | DV | ENG | 2003)
  • MIRCH
    MASALA (12 min | DV | HND | 2003)
  • WATCH
    OUT (12 min | DV | Silent | 2004)
    • Screened at Big Mountain International Film Festival, New
      Zealand
  • SEA
    SIDE STORY (11 min | DV | ENG | 2004)
    • Screened at International Film Festival of India, Goa
    • Screened at Big Mountain International Film Festival
  • YAKSHOTTAMA (11 min | 35mm | KAN| 2005)
  • NINAAD (21 min| 35mm | HND | 2006)
  • BHAVA LAHARI (5min | HD | ENG | 2014)

 

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 BLUE CITY – Film on
    a Cologne city, Germany.
  • NEW DAY IN TRANSWORKS – A Corporate film for
    Aditya Birla group.
  • BRAIN
    FACTORY – Documentary on brain drain phenomena
    in India.
  • CINEMA!
    CINEMA – About young filmmakers
    in India and their dreams.
  • COLORS
    OF ADMINISTRATION – Youth and Politics in India.
  • GLOBALIZATION! – A sneak view in to the understanding in India.
  • 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 Bihar.
  • 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.
  • EKAVYATI
    YAKSHAGANA – Solo Performances in Yakshagana.
  • ASHOKAVANA – An experiment in private forest
    conservation.
  • PRERANA – Insight into an NGO
Corporate videos & Advertising films
 
  • M&G GRANITES – Corporate video
  • Spider Logic India – Corporate video
  • Tejasco – Product presentation
  • Suco Bank – Advertising films
  • EduAhead – Training videos
OTHER WORKS
 
  • Guest lecturer in BITS Pilani, Manipal
    University, St. Josephs Autonomous College, Tent Cinema and in several other
    prestigious institutions and platforms.
  • Represented young Indian film makers at the
    Berlin International Film Festival in 2009 Sponsored by the Goethe Institute,
    Bangalore.
  • Part of Rotary Group Study Exchange to USA
    and Canada in 2011
  • Writings published on various important
    dailies in Kannada.
  • Research paper on Tulu Cinema presented in
    film Chennai symposium.

Abhaya Simha
13 August 2014

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