Instructors
Professor Annette Danto
Professor Annette Danto is a filmmaker, educator and faculty program director for Brooklyn College Study Abroad India.
Professor Danto holds a BA magna cum laude from McGill University (1980), an MS from Columbia University (1982), and an M.F.A. from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Program in Film and Television (1989). Since 1997 she has been a professor at Brooklyn College, with a joint appointment in the Department of Film and the Department of Television/ Radio. She has been a Fulbright Research Scholar to India (2002-03), a Leonard and Claire Tow Faculty Fellow (2003, 2008), and a Fulbright Senior Specialist to India (2004). She has received grants from the Ted Turner Foundation (2001), Gates Foundation (2004, 2005), Eastman Foundation (2008), and has directed films in West Africa for the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and in India for Pathfinder International. Her award winning films have exhibited nationally and internationally.
In 2002-03, she was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Gandhigram Institute of Rural Health in Ambathurai, Tamil Nadu. In 2004, she received a second Fulbright grant to co-organize an International Environmental Health Roundtable in Chennai, India. The conference included participants from all SAARC countries, and was funded through grants from the U.S.EPA, U.S.AID, U.S.AEP and the USEFI .
In addition to international screenings of her films, she has given lectures and special presentations at conferences and universities in Istanbul, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Karnataka and in the United States.
Professor Danto is the President of Friends of Fulbright to India, an alumni association of former Fulbright Scholars to India. She has also been selected as a panelist for the Fulbright Scholar Review board. She is an active member of New York Women in Film & Television, as well as the Film & Television Union - I.A.T.S.E. Local 52
Links:
http://fulbrightindiaalumni.org/links.html
http://forwardintime.com/cgi-local/store/agora.cgi?product=RELIGION
http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/news/cuny_matters/june_2003/india.html
http://www.brooklyn.edu/bc/spotlite/slpress/051102.htm
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/pubs/fn/04/3-04.pdf
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/film/
Mr. K. Hariharan
Mr. K. Hariharan is a filmmaker, educator and director of the L.V. Prasad Film & TV Academy in Chennai. He has directed seven feature films, which include ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’ (1978), a film in Marathi which was screened at the Berlin, Edinburgh and Valladolid film festivals. “Ezhavathu Manithan’ (The 7th Man), the next film in Tamil got the national award for the best Tamil film in 1982 and the Afro-Asian Solidarity Award at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1983. In 1992 the Hindi film entitled ‘Current’ starring Om Puri and Deepti Naval got the best critics award that year. Between these films, directed films for the Children’s Film Society of India; ‘Wanted Thangaraj’ in 1979, ‘Crocodile Boy’ in 1986, and ‘Dubhashi’ (The Translator) in 1999.
In addition to fiction, K.Hariharan has directed numerous documentary and educational films. These include ‘Take a Break with Hugh & Colleen Gantzer’- a 26 part travel series; a 26 part educational series called ‘Understanding Cinema’, and a long dramatic series on the Bhakti poets of south India called ‘Maale Manivanna’.
As an educator, Professor Hariharan is a regular visiting faculty at the University of Pennsylvania since 1995 in the South Asia Regional Studies department teaching two courses titled ‘Indian Cinema & Society’ and the ‘Cinema of Satyajit Ray’. Guest faculty at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and at the Film & TV Institute in Pune, India, the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.
K. Hariharan is the director of the L.V. Prasad Film & TV Academy in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is a graduate of the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune (1976).
Link:
http://www.designinindia.net/everywhere/disciplines/video-film/institutions/schools-india.htm
Mr. Ilango Samuel Peter
Mr. Ilango Samule Peter is the Director of the Media Division at the Gandhigram Institute of Rural Health and Family Welfare Trust in Ambathurai, Tamil Nadu. As the Director at Gandhigram over the past six years, Mr. Ilango oversees film and video production workshops, as well as a the rural education street theater program. Gandhigram has pioneered the use of traditional creative formats for community outreach in rural regions. This has included the use of puppetry, dance, music and theater. The Media Division has produced over 15 digital video programs for use in rural regions. These deal with topics such as: girls education, environmental safety, maternal anemia, and nutrition.
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