Prashant Bhargava is an award-winning filmmaker and designer.

Background

Prashant studied theatrical directing at the Actors Studio Drama School and computer science at Cornell University. Prior to his career as a filmmaker, Prashant worked on a joint project of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and New York University instructing Chicago Public School teachers to use media and technology to tell their own stories and challenge public misconception. A native of Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Prashant's interest in the arts began as a graffiti

Graffiti

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 artist.

Career

Prashant has designed and directed commercials, titles, and promos for such films as Born into Brothels, John Frankenhiemer's Path to War, Mira Nair's Hysterical Blindness, Raoul Peck's Lumumba, and Denzel Washington's Antwone Fisher

Antwone Fisher

Antwone Quenton Fisher is an American director, screenwriter, author and film producer. His 2001 autobiographical book Finding Fish is a New York Times Best Seller...

. Notable projects include branding Cinemax's Reel Life documentary series and many of HBO's original series - OZ, Def Poetry Jam, and The Wire. Other projects include promotions for Blue Cross Blue Shield, Missy Elliot, Talib Kweli, Accenture, PBS, NBC, History Channel, Bravo, and IBM.

His film Sangam premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 and since appeared in over thirty festivals, been broadcast on PBS, Sundance Channel and ARTE/ZDF, garnering several awards and distinctions.

He currently completing post on his first feature Patang. During the jubliant atmosphere of Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad also known as Karnavati is the largest city in Gujarat, India. It is the former capital of Gujarat and is also the judicial capital of Gujarat as the Gujarat High Court has its seat in Ahmedabad...

's treasured kite festival, three stories unfold capturing the joys and struggles of a city in flux.

Awards & recognition

In 2005 Prashant won Special Mention of the Jury at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival for his film Sangam. He has been recognized by the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Broadcast Designers Association, and Adobe Systems. Prashant is the recipient of the 2006 Copeland Fellowship at Amherst College.

His 2011 film Patang won the Golden Orchid Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2011 Hawaii International Film Festival. http://www.hiff.org/program/films/detail/patang_2011 http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/132367258.html

External links

• Prashant Bhargava at the Internet Movie Database
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