Girish
Kasarvalli
Producer and Director
 A
Bangalore based film maker, Girish Kasaravalli is a diploma
holder in film direction from the Film and TV Institute of
India, Pune. Most of his movies have received the appreciation
of the audience and fellow film makers alike. He says, " My
films are not just beautiful visuals. They also hold emotional
appeal.". Throughout his career as a film maker, he has got
many state and national awards to his credit.Tabarana
Kathe, a Kannada movie directed by him has received
the national awards in many categories and also the appreciation
of the critiques themselves. Some of the awards won by him include
the President's Golden Lotus
and the Silver Lotus award,
the International Catholic Jury award,
Moitra Award at the Asian
Film festival and the Ducats award
at Mannheim Film festival.
Anant
Nag
Politician, Actor
 A
compulsive mimic, Anant Nag, took a keen interest in
skits and plays right from his school days. His career as an
actor started with roles in amateur dramas and plays. He then
went on to act in the mainstream kannada movies. In the last
25 years he has acted in over 125 films in Kannada and a couple
of other languages. His role as a corrupt politician in the
movie, Accident was appreciated by the critiques.
He has bagged the Karnataka State Best
Actor Award and the Filmfare
Best Actor Award. In the recent years he has
shown a growing interest in politics and in 1994, he was nominated
as a Member of the Legislative Council. Today, he manages
to creatively balance his time between politics and acting.
M.
S. Satyu
Director
With an outstanding talent, M. S. Satyu has worked as
a scriptwriter, producer and director. To date ,
he has directed 15 documentaries, 25 advertisement films and
8 feature films. College was just a junction enroute to his
flight to the big, bad and uncertain world of films. He quit
college half way through to join films. His first job was that
as art director for the movie, 'Haqeequat'. His movie, Garma
Hawa in Urdu won a National award, was invited to
the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar.
He has also received the National Padmashree Award
for his contribution to the world of cinema. His latest work
Kurukshetra to Kargil, a play directed by him, has received
a lot of kudos wherever it has been staged.
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for more about Satyu.
Suresh
Heblikar
Actor, Director
 A
student of Economics and Marketing -Advertising , Suresh
Heblikar is known as one person with a penchant for directing
offbeat movies. Some of his well known films are Aparichita,
Rishya Shrunga, Usha Kiran, Kadina Benki and Kankana.
Kadina Benki won Best
Director national award and Usha Kiran
the Filmfare award. Besides
directing, he has also acted in many plays and films. Kannada
movie regulars remember with nostalgia Heblikar's detective
films like Aale Mane, Aagantuka and Aparachita.
He has given invited screenings of his films abroad. He has
also directed several documentaries on the ecology of Western
Ghats, the solar energy, the socio-cultural aspects of Dharwad
(which won the state's best documentary award), development
of waste land and AIDS. He is the Vice Chairman of the Indian
Society for Environmental Studies. Heblikar's persona -
that of an environmentalist - makes its impact on his films
in the choice of lesser - known, scenic and green locales.
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here for more about Suresh
Heblikar.
G.V.
Iyer
Director
 Born
in 1917 in an orthodox Brahmin family, G.V Iyer went
on to become a film maker with the most unorthodox approach.
With only a sketchy education, he joined a drama troupe in his
teens. He began by painting signboards and from 1953 onwards
commenced writing dramas, scripts, lyrics, and then tried his
hand at direction. One of his most acclaimed films is Ranadheera
Kanteerava. His movie, Adi Shankaracharya,
on India's great philosopher(the first ever to be made in Sanskrit),
won national and international laurels. Hamsageethe,
also directed by him introduced a new idiom in the style, approach
and the grammar of film making. He has also directed films on
other great Indians are Madhvacharya, Swami Vivekanada
and Ramanujacharya. His award winning work, Bhagawad
Geetha was lauded by even the learned interpreters of Indian
philosophy. Self taught and self motivated, he has earned a
respectable place in world of cinema.
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