M S Prakash Babu (born 3 November 1968) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and visual artist, known for his work in Kannada feature film ''
Attihannu mattu Kanaja Attihannu mattu Kanaja (English: Fig Fruit and The Wasps) is a 2014 Kannada feature film written and directed by M S Prakash Babu, co-produced bNational Film Development Corporation(NFDC) and Produced by Bhavani Prakash under the banner of Bayalu C ...
(Fig Fruit and The Wasps)'' which was officially selected for the ‘Tiantan Award’ 2015, 5t
Beijing International Film Festival He trained as a visual artist a
Viswa Bharati University Santiniketan
Santiniketan is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata. It was established by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, and later expanded by his son ...
, West-Bengal, and worked as an illustrator and graphic designer fo
The Times of India''
Early life and education
M S Prakash Babu was born and brought up at Chitradurga and studied at Public Primary School (PPS)
Chitradurga, Karnataka.
After finishing his schooling, he joined the Government School of art at Davangere to study visual Art, then went to work in Kanoria Centre for Arts studios with a fellowship for a year, Ahmedabad. He completed Post-graduation in Painting from Kala Bhavan, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan in 1993.
Career
From 1997 to 2009 he had painting shows in India and abroad. In 2001 directed his first short film "Afternoon Song". He had been awarded a Fellowship in the field of Visual Art ( Film/ Video) at Helsinki (Finland) under th
UNESCO-ASCHBERG2001-2002. Between 2001 and 2013 he written and directed five short films. His short films screened in major international film festivals like Tehran International film festival, Mumbai International film festival, Jordan International film festival, International film festival of Kerala. 35t
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival2013,France.
In 2013, his first independent feature film "''
Attihannu mattu Kanaja Attihannu mattu Kanaja (English: Fig Fruit and The Wasps) is a 2014 Kannada feature film written and directed by M S Prakash Babu, co-produced bNational Film Development Corporation(NFDC) and Produced by Bhavani Prakash under the banner of Bayalu C ...
''" (Fig Fruit and The Wasps) was selected b
NFDCfo
Film Bazaars Work-In-Progress Lab in 2013. Fig Fruit and The Wasps his directorial debut, has excelled and been honoured at several prestigious international film festivals since its completion, including the 5t
Beijing International Film Festival 16t
7th Bengaluru International Film Festival
Calgary International Film Festival 2015and 14t
Dhaka International Film Festival2016.
Filmography
* Madhyaanada Haadu (Afternoon Song) 2001 (Short)
* Three Months of Solitude 2002 (Short)
* Mungaara Mugilu (Monsoon Cloud) 2005 (Short)
* Poorva Dikkina Gaali (The East Wind) 2008 (Short)
* Manna Payana (Journey of Earth) 2013 (Short)
*
Attihannu mattu Kanaja Attihannu mattu Kanaja (English: Fig Fruit and The Wasps) is a 2014 Kannada feature film written and directed by M S Prakash Babu, co-produced bNational Film Development Corporation(NFDC) and Produced by Bhavani Prakash under the banner of Bayalu C ...
(Fig Fruit and The Wasps) 2014 (Feature)
External links
* Live Mint
Of time and other demons by Nandini Ramnath* Hindustan Times
Fig Fruit and the Wasps: At Beijing Film Fest, an Indian work with a difference by Gautaman Bhaskaran* Gulf Times
Fig Fruit and the Wasps is pure cinema by Gautaman Bhaskaran* Deccan Herald
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Indian filmmakers
1968 births
Living people