Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Prashanth KAMALAKANTHAN (India) is an Indian-American filmmaker and educator, whose background is in music, documentary and photography. He was born in Tirupati in India, and raised in North Carolina. He studied in the NYU Graduate Film programme, and has made films for The New York Times, Mother Jones and The Nation, among others. His short film A Hand (2018) won Best Short Comedy at New Hampshire Film Festival. Kamalakanthan currently teaches film theory and screenwriting at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Brown University. He co-directed New Strains (IFFR 2023) with Artemis Shaw.
Filmography
Anybody Home? (2014, short), Dream of Me (2016, short), Durga’s Fall (2016, short), Houseplants (2017, short), A Hand (2018, short), Have a Nice Life (2021), New Strains (2023, co-dir), Removal of the Eye (2024, co-dir)
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Prashanth Kamalakanthan at IFFR
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Removal of the Eye
Prashanth Kamalakanthan, Artemis Shaw | 92' | USA | International premiere
A couple deals with a mother-in-law driven to perform an exorcism on their baby. -
New Strains
Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan | 78' | USA | World premiere
A cheerfully homemade pandemic rom-com set amidst the banality of lockdown life.