Name Biju Viswanath Role Film director | Spouse Rakhi Viswanath Siblings Priya Prakash | |
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Occupation Film Director, Screenwriter, Director of Photography, Film Editor Parents S.Radhamani Amma, Cheri Viswanath Movies Orange Mittai, Marathon, Phantom, Poi, Peter Scott Similar People RJ Ramesh Thilak, Justin Prabhakaran, Vijay Sethupathi, Thilakan, A Sreekar Prasad | ||
Orange Mittai - Official Trailer | Vijay Sethupathi | Biju Viswanath
Biju Viswanath is an international Film Director, Director of Photography and Screenwriter. His movies have been screened throughout the world. Viswanath has directed movies in English,Tamil,Italian, Irish, Swahili, Japanese, and Indian languages. His Credits span multiple Genres: Thrillers, Mystery, Horror, Romance and critically acclaimed dramas .
Contents
- Orange Mittai Official Trailer Vijay Sethupathi Biju Viswanath
- Award winning short film shadow tree directed by biju viswanath pocket films
- Career
- Filmography
- References
Award winning short film shadow tree directed by biju viswanath pocket films
Career
Viswanath's directorial debut A Voyage is based on the works of famous Indian writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair, winner of highest literary award in India Jnanpith. The film won the Gold Medal for Best Short Film in India and Honorable Mention in Zanzibar International Film Festival.
His international English feature film Déjàvu with British actors premiered at the 54th Locarno International Film Festival.
Only two other Indian films have made it to Locarno in its 54-year history, the other being the Oscar-nominated Hindi film Lagaan. Dejavu [1] was screened in 24 international film festivals.
His Urdu film Parwaaz (The Flight) won Special Prize in Patras Film Festival.
Viswanath won two awards for Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay in New York Independent Film Festival [2] for his feature film Marathon (2010) Marathon imdb based on the true story of Pulitzer Prize winning American poet William Morris Meredith, Jr.
Another Feature film "Viola"Viola imdb won Golden palm in the Mexico International Film festival
Swahili short film "The Shadow Tree" won the Special Award in skepto film festival italy Signis Award and Best short Film Award in 2014 Zanzibar Film festival and Special Mention award at the 4th Filmambiente international festival Brazil
Biju Viswanath's Tamil Feature film "Orange Mittai" is produced and co written by the famous Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi
Filmography
Selected Filmography