Arun Bharali
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Arun Bharali is an Anglo-Indian film director, producer and screenwriter
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Bharali trained initially as a musician, completing a Ph.D. in Music Composition at the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Brian Ferneyhough
and Rand Steiger
. He also performed as a violinist, cellist and pianist, specializing in contemporary classical music, won awards for Composition at festivals in Darmstadt and Huddersfield and taught for four years in the Music Department at UCSD.
He left academia
in 1997 to pursue his interest in film and worked his way up as a freelance script supervisor and occasional reader with UK based companies such as Working Title, Tiger Aspect and the BBC.
In 2006 he made his feature directorial debut having submitted a screenplay to Kevin Spacey
's triggerstreet.com website where it was noticed by an American producer who optioned the script and eventually financed the production of the film. The movie, originally entitled Lookalike, was released in North America under the title Bolly Double in 2007. Bolly Double won the Audience Choice award at the 2007 Toronto ReelWorld Festival and a Gold Remi at the 2007 Houston WorldFest.
In 2007 Bharali co-founded Digitalis Entertainment International
with partners John Dawson and Ronan Treacy. The company has bases in the UK, US and India and focuses on the development and production of English language genre films with an intelligent edge. The first production under the new banner, US set thriller Skyline Drive, is set to begin principal photography in 2010.
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
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Bharali trained initially as a musician, completing a Ph.D. in Music Composition at the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...
and Rand Steiger
Rand Steiger
Rand Steiger is an American composer, conductor, and pedagogue.Steiger became a faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts in 1982, remaining there until 1987...
. He also performed as a violinist, cellist and pianist, specializing in contemporary classical music, won awards for Composition at festivals in Darmstadt and Huddersfield and taught for four years in the Music Department at UCSD.
He left academia
Academia
Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...
in 1997 to pursue his interest in film and worked his way up as a freelance script supervisor and occasional reader with UK based companies such as Working Title, Tiger Aspect and the BBC.
In 2006 he made his feature directorial debut having submitted a screenplay to Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...
's triggerstreet.com website where it was noticed by an American producer who optioned the script and eventually financed the production of the film. The movie, originally entitled Lookalike, was released in North America under the title Bolly Double in 2007. Bolly Double won the Audience Choice award at the 2007 Toronto ReelWorld Festival and a Gold Remi at the 2007 Houston WorldFest.
In 2007 Bharali co-founded Digitalis Entertainment International
with partners John Dawson and Ronan Treacy. The company has bases in the UK, US and India and focuses on the development and production of English language genre films with an intelligent edge. The first production under the new banner, US set thriller Skyline Drive, is set to begin principal photography in 2010.