Lalit Vachani is an Indian documentary filmmaker.[1]
Life
Vachani studied at the St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
He was a visiting lecturer at the Mass Communication Research Centre in Delhi from 1990 to 1998. He also taught courses on film production at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Amherst College. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Media, Culture and History at the New York University in 1999,[2] and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in 2011–12.[3][4]
Vachani's films have received support from the Soros/Sundance Documentary Foundation, the Jan Vrijman Fund and the India Foundation for the Arts.[2]
Works
- Recasting Selves (2019, 80 minutes).[5]
- An Ordinary Election (2015, 125 minutes).[6]
- Tales from Napa (2010, 26 minutes).[7]
- The Salt Stories (2008, 84 minutes), Winner of the Best documentary film, MIAAC 2009 and the 2nd prize in Film South Asia Kathmandu, 2009.[8][9][10]
- In Search of Gandhi (2007, 52 minutes), Winner of the EBU Special Golden Link award, 2008.[11][12]
- Rebuilding with Richie (2006, 27 minutes)[13]
- Natak Jari Hai (The Play Goes on, 2005, 83min.).[14][15]
- The Chhara Projects (2003, 63 minutes).[13]
- The Men in the Tree (2002, 98 minutes).[16][17][18]Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
- The Starmaker (1997, 74 minutes)[19][20]
- The Academy (1995, 52 minutes).[13]
- The Boy in the Branch (1993, 27 minutes), produced for the Channel 4 television, U. K.[21][22]Template:Sfn
References
- ↑ https://english.mathrubhumi.com/movies-music/movie-news/lalit-vachani-s-recasting-selves-captures-the-social-intervention-of-crest-1.4138668
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lalit Vachani: About. lalitvachani.com. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- ↑ Lalit Vachani. Max Planck Institute. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- ↑ Lalit Vachani. Lichtenberg-Kolleg. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- ↑ ′Recasting Selves′, The Seventh Art
- ↑ ′Not an Ordinary Film′, The Hindu
- ↑ Tales from Napa, lalitvachani.com
- ↑ The Salt Stories, lalitvachani.com
- ↑ The Other Half: Will anything change?. The Hindu(26 December 2009). Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- ↑ That Land that Forgot Mahatma. Tehelka(16 October 2010). Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- ↑ In Search of Gandhi, lalitvachani.com
- ↑ In Search of Gandhi (documentary) - review, Punjabi, Dimple. culturazzi.org. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Other films, lalitvachani.com
- ↑ The Play Goes on, lalitvachani.com
- ↑ The Show Must Go On. Economic and Political Weekly({Template:Date).
- ↑ The Men in the Tree, lalitvachani.com
- ↑ Breeding little fascists. Frontline(26 October 2002). Retrieved 2014-10-10.
- ↑ The Men in the Tree - review. Ekta: South Asian progressive network. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- ↑ The Starmaker, lalitvachani.com
- ↑ Behind the Curtains. India Today(29 September 1997). Retrieved 2014-11-04.
- ↑ The Boy in the Branch, lalitvachani.com
- ↑ The Boy in the Branch - Excerpts from Press reviews, lalitvachani.com
Bibliography
- Husband of a Fanatic{{#if:Kumar|, Kumar}. Penguin Books India(2004). ISBN 0143031899
- The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future{{#if:Nussbaum|, Nussbaum}. Harvard University Press(2008). ISBN 978-0-674-03059-6