 //About Shalini My sources for inspiration include 1984, The Bhagvad Gita, and Star Wars. //Job History My journey in filmmaking includes filming a Bengal tiger in the wild, interviewing the Dalai Lama & being a Fox network reality show survivor.//Education Background I got my BA at a neo-hippie experimental school called Hampshire College in International Human Rights & Media Studies. Then I went to the Harvard of the proletariat, the City College of New York, to get my MFA in Fiction Directing. And learned mostly by doing it.//Shalini's Photos click on an image for a larger view  //Press About Shalini http://www.shalinikantayya.net/buzz.html//Favorite Movies Star Wars (the first three), The Matrix (the first one), Gattaca, Whalerider, the Lives of Others, Blade Runner, Eterenal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, In the Mood for Love & almost anything by Won Kar Wei, Almodovar's Talk to Her, Kurasawa's Dreams, Run Lola Run, Children of Men, Donnie Darko, Rabbit Proof Fence, music videos by Spike Jonze, dhoom 2 (my bollywood mindless guilty pleasure)//Shalini's Favorite Things About Filmmaking My favorite thing about filmmaking is sitting in the dark with a group of strangers and watching them laugh or cry or be affected by something that I have made. I am awed by the power of his medium to move people...//Shalini's Camera of Choice I usually shoot with the Panasonic HVX200A DVCPRO HD P2 Camera with film lenses & I have lust for the Genesis camera that I worked with once...//Shalini's Editing Software of Choice I've used Final Cut Pro since the software was invented... before that I used avid.//Shalini Became a Filmmaker Because I was 19 years old, and I was in a Buddhist monastery in South India, one of the 13 villages India gave Tibetan refugees. I heard 800 monks chanting this deep-throated rayer and was acutely aware that this community was recreating their traditions in exile. Something sort of hit me in my heart, and I knew that there were stories that I needed to tell that I couldn't express in words. This was before I knew aperture, or iris or anything about filmmaking. I started to put imaginary picture frames on everything I saw and it was almost as if I discovered my sense of sight in a new way.//General Interests scuba diving, hula hooping & sci-fi |  I AM...
A Doorpost Member Since : May 2008
A FILMMAKER Since 1997
A WRITER //Shalini's Films
//Shalini's Blogs "intro to the journey " (READ NOW) Posted on 2008-08-19 @ 12:08am GMT  "Shalini Vlog " (VIEW NOW)Posted on 2008-08-19 @ 12:08am GMT //Door Posts
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