Ishu Patel

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name = Ishu Patel


birthdate = April 20, 1942
birthplace = India
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Ishu Patel (born April 20, 1942) is independent filmmaker and animator from India. He is one of the "key filmmakers" of the National Film Board of Canada. [cite news | first=| last=| url=http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/filmmakers/Ishu-Patel/overview.php | title=National Film Board Key Filmmakers: Ishu Patel | publisher=National Film Board | accessdate=2006-08-20] [cite news | first=| last=| url=http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/1999/99.11.01.html | title=Academy to Celebrate National Film Board of Canada Anniversary | publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences| date= 01 November, 1999 |accessdate=2006-08-20] Patel is currently teaching animation and storytelling to animation students in India. [cite news | first=| last=| url=http://www.mandy.com/1/board2.cfm?v=19342340 | title=TASI to host Ishu Patel, Isabel Herguera + Joel Simon - animation | publisher=mandy| date= |accessdate=2006-11-29]

Background

Patel was born in Jalsan, a town near Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India. He received his B.F.A. from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. During this time, he met and worked with Henri Cartier-Bresson. He later pursued graduate studies with the National Institute of Design.

Career

National Film Board

Patel joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1970 and was there until the late 1990s. [cite news | first=Marc | last=Glassman | url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_16_6/ai_30214756/print | title=United Nations of animation - National Film Board of Canada | publisher=Take One| date=Summer 1997 | accessdate=2006-08-20] He is particularly known for his 1977 film "Bead Game" which was nominated for an Academy Award. [cite news | first=| last=| url=http://www.nfb.ca/portraits/hommage/drouin/html/en/portesouvertes_03/patel_01.html | title=National Film Board Corridors Open House - Ishu Patel Bead Game| publisher=National Film Board| date= | accessdate=2006-08-20] [cite news | first=Linda | last=Simensky | authorlink= Linda Simensky | url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_16_6/ai_30214833/print | title=O Canada: - Canadian animators | publisher=Take One| date= Summer 1997 | accessdate=2006-08-20]

Teaching

Patel has taught at the University of Hawaii and the National Institute of Design. He taught in the Division of Animation and Digital Arts, USC School of Cinema-Television from 1998-2001. [http://anim.usc.edu/about_history.html] He also taught in independent programs in the former Yugoslavia, Korea, and Japan.

Awards

"Winner:"
* 1994: Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, "Divine Fate"
* 1986: Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, "Paradise/Paradis"
* 1985: Berlin International Film Festival, "Paradise/Paradis" (The Silver Bear)
* 1979: Annecy International Animated Film Festival, "Afterlife" (tie)
* 1978: Montréal World Film Festival, "Afterlife"
* 1978: BAFTA Film Award, " The Bead Game"

"Nominated:"
*1985: 7th Genie Awards, "Paradise/Paradis"
*1984: Academy Award for Animated Short Film, "Paradise/Paradis"
*1982: 3rd Genie Awards, "Top Priority"
*1977: Academy Award for Animated Short Film, " The Bead Game"

elect Filmography

* "Divine Fate", (1993)
* "Paradise/Paradis", (1984)
* "Top Priority", (1982)
* Animal Inserts for "Sesame Street Canada", (mid 1970s)
* "Afterlife", (1978)
* "The Bead Game", (1977)
* "Perspectrum", (1974)
* "How Death Came to Earth", (1971)

References

Further reading

*Bendazzi, Giannalberto. "Ishu Patel." Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996:270-271.
*Wiedemann, Julius (ed.) "Ishu Patel." Animation Now! Los Angeles: Taschen, 2004: 200-209.

External links

* [http://ishupatel.com/ Official Web Site]
* [http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/filmmakers/filmmaker/overview.php?id=12772 Ishu Patel at the NFB Web site]
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* [http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/films/film.php?sort=director&director=Patel%2C+Ishu&id=413 View "Afterlife" and "Bead Game" online] at the National Film Board of Canada
* [http://filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=46&csid1=1409&navid=87 Canadian Film Encyclopedia] - Toronto International Film Festival, Film reference Library
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWIv0tAszm4 "Moondust" - Animated by Ishu Patel] - United Airlines Commercial entitled "Moondust" - Animated by Ishu Patel.