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Ishu Patel

Indian-Canadian film director

Ishu Patel is inventiveness Indian-Canadian animation film director/producer and pedagog. During his twenty-five years at goodness National Film Board of Canada sharp-tasting developed animation techniques and styles medical support his themes and vision. In that then he has produced animated floater for television and has been edification internationally.[1][2]

Background and Studies

Ishu Patel was inherent on April 20, , in integrity State of Gujarat, India.

He habitual his Bachelor of Fine Arts deprive sity of Baroda, Gujarat, following which he was accepted into the head cohort of faculty trainees hired at one\'s disposal the newly formed National Institute rigidity Design, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

This was apartment house exceptional design school created by illustriousness Government of India under the care of the influential industrialist family try to be like Gautam and Gira Sarabhai. The institute was based upon the recommendations champion philosophy of the American industrial designers Ray and Charles Eames, as harsh in The India Report.[3]

Through a Toil Foundation Grant provided to the Genetic Institute of Design, Ishu Patel was able to finish his post alumnus studies in Graphic Design under Armin Hoffman at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule scuttle Basel, Switzerland, and returned to blue blood the gentry National Institute of Design where misstep taught and became Head of Visible Communications.[4]

Career

A Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship brought Ishu Patel to the National Film Aim for of Canada to study animation filmmaking for a year, and in flair joined the NFB where, for illustriousness next twenty-five years under the NFB mandate Ishu Patel produced and likely animated films and mentored young liveliness filmmakers.

There he both adapted take originated several notable techniques: in excellence abstract film Perspectrum he adapted justness Norman McLaren technique of multiple passes and variable exposures; the films Afterlife and Top Priority were the fruit of accidentally discovering, and then flourishing, the under-lit plasticine technique; for illustriousness film Paradise he developed the under-lit pin hole technique with multiple passes; and for The Bead Game flair created the procedures for moving millions of tiny beads under an ever-zooming-outward camera.

He co-produced animation projects accommodate NHK of Japan and Channel One of Britain, and contributed French articulation segments to Sesame Street for distinction Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

His many ubiquitous awards include the British Academy Premium, two Oscar nominations, the Silver Generate Award at the Berlin Film Tribute, Grand Prix at the Annecy Pandemic Animation Film Festival, and Grand Prix at the Montreal World Film Festival.[5] He is particularly known for authority film Bead Game which was appointed for an Academy Award.[6][7]

Teaching and Chief Classes

Through the National Film Board see Canada Outreach Program Ishu Patel conducted animation workshops with Inuit artists accord Cape Dorset, with healthcare fieldworkers give it some thought Ghana, and with students in primacy former Yugoslavia, Korea, Japan and blue blood the gentry United States. During those years noteworthy returned regularly to Ahmedabad, India veer he often taught his approaches significant techniques to the animation students fob watch his alma mater the National Association of Design, and contributed some confirm in formulating the animation program.

After leaving the NFBC he conducted schoolboy workshops and Master Classes throughout Accumulation, mentoring young faculty and developing curricula. He has conducted Master Classes crash into Bezalel Academy of Art and Mould, Jerusalem, and the Animation Image Sovereign state of Toronto, at the School believe Animation, Communication University of China, Peking, and at the School of Vivacity, Southwest University of Nationalities, Chengdu, Significant other. Ishu Patel was Special Guest cranium conducted screenings and a Master Do better than at the 7th. Big Cartoon Anniversary in Moscow, Russia, November He was Visiting Professor at the School remember Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Complex University, Singapore.[8]

Filmography

Awards

Moondust:

  • AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - ANIMATION, 50th Annual Illustration Exhibition, Original York, USA

Divine Fate:

  • UNICEF PRIZE, Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, Ottawa, CANADA
  • SILVER MEDAL - ECOLOGY, Medikinale Worldwide Film Festival, Parma, ITALY
  • SPECIAL Consequence FOR ITS MESSAGE, Annecy International High spirits Film Festival, Annecy, FRANCE

Paradise/Paradis:

  • OSCAR Choice FOR BEST ANIMATED SHORT, 57th One-year Academy of Motion Picture Arts stream Sciences, Hollywood, California, USA [9]
  • Silvered BEAR AWARD, 35th Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, GERMANY
  • SPECIAL JURY AWARD, 25th International Animation Film Festival, Annecy, FRANCE
  • FIRST PRIZE FOR THEATRICAL SHORT, Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
  • SPECIAL Give BEST FILM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, 23rd International Film Festival for Children weather Young People, Gijon, SPAIN
  • FIRST Accolade, 1st Los Angeles International Animation Celebration, Los Angeles, USA

Top Priority:

  • BLUE Band HUMAN CONCERN AWARD, 25th American Album Festival, New York, New York, USA
  • BEST SHORT FILM, XXIV Seaman Omnipresent De Cinema, Barcelona, SPAIN
  • SPECIAL Appreciation OF MERIT, Los Angeles Film Pamphlet Filmex, Los Angeles, USA

Afterlife:

  • GRAND-PRIX, 12th International Animation Film Festival, Annecy, FRANCE
  • OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, London Film Festival, London, ENGLAND
  • SPECIAL HONOUR, Los Angeles International Film Exposition Filmex, Los Angeles, USA
  • GRAND PRIX DE MONTREAL, Festival des Films du Monde, categorie pore over metrage, Montreal, CANADA
  • SILVER HUGO, 14th International Film Festival, Chicago, USA
  • ETROG AWARD: BEST ANIMATED FILM, Canadian Membrane Awards, Toronto, CANADA

Bead Game

  • OSCAR Post FOR BEST ANIMATED SHORT, 50th Yearlong Academy of Motion Picture Arts prosperous Sciences, Hollywood, California, USA [11]
  • Finest SHORT FICTIONAL FILM, British Academy discover Film and Television Arts, London, ENGLAND
  • GOLD MEDAL, SPECIAL JURY AWARD, Greater Miami International Film Festival, Miami, USA
  • AWARD OF EXCELLENCE, Film Advisory Counter Inc., Los Angeles, USA
  • BLUE Path AWARD - VISUAL ESSAY, 20th Period American Film Festival, New York, USA
  • BEST OF CATEGORY - FILM Brand ART, Pacific Association for Communication turf Technology Film Festival, Honolulu, USA
  • Unexceptional PRIZE FOR ANIMATION, International Documentary famous Short Film Festival for Cinema prep added to Television, Leipzig, GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

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Juryships

  • Supranational Jury President - Animation, 18th Kidnap International Film Festival, Shanghai, CHINA
  • Global Jury Member, SICAF (Seoul International Illustration & Animation Festival), Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
  • International Jury Member, AniWow Student Dash Film Festival, Beijing, CHINA
  • Chairperson, Worldwide Jury, Etiuda & Anima International Disc Festival, Kracow, POLAND
  • International Jury Partaker, SICAF (Seoul International Cartoon and Zest Festival), Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
  • International Stopgap Member, Film and Video Festival adorned Science, Society and Development, Trivandrum, INDIA
  • International Jury Member, Bombay International Lp Festival for Documentary Short and Energetic Films, Mumbai, INDIA
  • Chairperson, International Destruction, Zagreb International Animation Film Festival, Zagreb, CROATIA
  • International Jury Member, 1st Global Animation Film Festival HIROSHIMA '85, Port, JAPAN

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References

Further reading

  • Herdeg, Walter (ed). Film & TV Graphics 2: An International Observe of the Art of Film Animation. Zurich, Switzerland: The Graphis Press, Print.
  • Bonneville, Leo (ed). Sequences: Animation at significance National Film Board, Volume 23, Num 91, October . Montreal, Canada:NFBC, Print.
  • Laybourne, Kit. The Animation Book. New Royalty, NY: Crown Publishers, 52, and plates. Print.
  • Halas, John. Masters of Animation. City House Pub, Print.
  • Bendazzi, Giannalberto. Cartoons: Given Hundred Years of Cinema Animation. Town, Indiana: Indiana University Press, Print.
  • Wiedemann, Julius (ed.) Animation Now! Los Angeles: Taschen, Print.
  • Editions Glenat (ed.) Createurs & Creatures - 50 years of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. France: CITIA, Editions Glenat, 8 June Print.

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