Vinod Sukumaran

Vinod Sukumaran (Vinsu) is an Indian filmmaker. He has won the National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director for the film Diary of a Housewife (2001).

He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India. He is the Award winner for Best editor 2007 in Malayalam Movie Ore Kadal(Kerala state Film Awards)

Personal life

Vinod Sukumaran holds a Master's degree in Film Making with the specialisation in Film Editing from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. Initially he has studied Theatre Arts from School of Drama, Calicut University, Kerala State. He has worked in Theatre for many years as Director, Stage designer (Scenic designer), Costume designer. Make-up artist and Actor etc. His major works are involved with well known Theatre personalities like Kavalam Narayana Panicker)(play-Mathavilasam), B.V. Karanth (play-Panja Ratram) , Alakananda Samarth (play-Coriolanus), S. Ramanujam (play-Samatuavadi) etc. Also he has worked with different local theatre groups and later joined in FTII. he believes that theatre has lot of limitation at the present era when it hit the audience. Also the flexibility of communication is different from each other.

Career

After his course in FTII he has worked with the eminent Indian Film Editor Late Ms. Renu Saluja in several Hindi films like Papa Kahte Hain by Mahesh Bhatt, Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin by Sudhir Mishra, Pardes by Subhash Ghai etc within a span of four years. His Idea and Screenplay of 90 Sec theme based films were selected for Commonwealth Vision Award in 2003 and 2005 and awarded 1000 pounds for each screen play. He joined with noted film director Shymaprasad 's first film Agnisakshi as a Associate Director. He has, since then associated with Shymaprasad in several of his different film projects as Associate Director and Film Editor. He says, working with Shymaprasad is one of the great thing in terms of experience and learning, as they share a very good professional rapport. Ore Kadal is their most recent work together.

He has worked as an Editor in several films, Documentaries and Short films National and State level. He has just finished working with Nandita Das as an Associate Director in her film Firaq. The film is stated for release in Summer of 2008. Currently, he is working on his first major directorial venture, a feature in Tamil scheduled to start at the end of this year.

Awards and Achievements

National Award for best first film of a Director for Diary of a Housewife in 2002

Matrubhumi Award for Best Film Editor for Akale in 2005

Film Critic Association Award for Best Film Editor Akale in 2005

Kerala State Award for Best Film Editor Ore Kadal in 2008

Granted 1000 pounds for the screen play for WINGS OF FREEDOM in 2003 and COLOUR OF LIFE in 2005 from Royal Commonwealth Society, UK

Editor of ORE KADAL (A sea within) a Malayalam feature film directed by Shyamaprasad. (The film has screened as a Inaugural film in Indian Panorama of IFFI 2008. Also it has won NETPACK award in IFFK 2008. Recently it has won four Kerala State Awards including Best Film Editing.

2005 Directed a 90 second theme based promotional film Colour Of Life for The Royal Commonwealth Society. The film has Tele-casted in 53 commonwealth countries in 2006.

2005 Editor (Co-Editer-Beena Paul) of DAIVANAMATHIL (In the name of God), a Malayalam feature film directed by Jayaraj (The film has screened at In various International film festivals

2004 Asst. director of Kis Kis Ko a hindi feature film directed by Sharat Sharan

2004 Editor and associate director of AKALE, a Malayalam feature film directed by Shyamaprasad. (The film has screened at In various International film festivals in 2004 including IFFI 2004-Goa, Fukuoka 2004, River to River Film festival Italy, IFFK 2004.

2003 Directed a 90 second theme based promotional film Wings of Freedom for The Royal Commonwealth Society. 2003.

Associate director & Editor of ULLURUKKAM, a Tele-film in Malayalam directed by Shyamaprasad. Produced by Doordarshan, Kerala (This film won Second best short fiction in Mumbai International short film festival.2004) 2002 Directed Society in the 18th & 19th Centuries, a documentary episode for C-Dit,financed by the NCSTC,New Delhi.

2001 Directed Diary of a House wife, a short film made in 35 mm,colour, Malayalam of 15 minutes duration .2001. The film has screened in Indian panorama as opening film along with Mrinal Sens' Amaar Bhuvan. This film also screened in Competition Section of Mumbai International Film festival (MIFF 2002), World Cinema Section of International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK2002), Asian Cinema Section of Commonwealth Film Festival Manchester (CFF 2002), River to River Florence-India Film Festival in Italy 2002, National Film festival organized by Kerala State Chalachitra Academy 1999 Associate director of Agnisakshi,a Malayalam feature film directed by Shyama Prasad 1998 (The film has screened at IFFI 1999 in Hyderabad. It also won nine Kerala State award including best film and best director) 1992-1997 Edited Veg& Non-Veg Diploma film made in 35mm B& W at FTII.1992 (The film was screened at Edinburgh Film Festival in 1994) Assistant Editor to Late. Ms. Renu Saluja in the following Hindi feature films:Jaya Ganga a Hindi-French feature film directed by Vijay SinghPapa Kahte Hain a hindi feature film directed by Mahesh BhattIs Raat Ki Subah Nahin a hindi feature film directed by Sudhir MishraMil Gayi Manzil Mujhe a hindi feature film directed by Lekh Tandon
Pardes a hindi feature film directed by Subhash Ghai

Edited Lights On Water, a Malayalam documentary made in 35mm colour of 30minutes duration .Directed by Lijiya Mathew (The film was screened at IFFI 1999 in Hydrabad)