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Nationality
  
Indian

Years active
  
1995-present

Shilpa Ranade Industrial Design Centre IDC Indian Institute of Technology

Occupation
  
Animator, filmmaker, illustrator, designer and acamedician

Notable work
  
'Mani's Dying', 'The Harvest','Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya'

Movies
  
Goopy gawaiya bagha bajaiya

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Shilpa Ranade (born 1966) is an acclaimed Indian designer, animator, illustrator, filmmaker and academician. She has been faculty at Industrial Design Centre in Mumbai since 2001. She has directed animated short films for Channel 4, UK and her films have been screened all over the world, winning accolades in some of the most prestigious film festivals. The award-winning animation movie Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya was her first full-length feature film which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her other films are Naja Goes to School and Mani's Dying.

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Early Life and Education

Shilpa Ranade Combining Film with Art Interview with Shilpa Ranade TIFF 2013

As a child, she was deeply interested in drawing and art. Her parents encouraged her to pursue a career in an area of her interest. After class 10, she decided to pursue applied art and she went to Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art where she specialized in Illustration and Video. She then decided to pursue visual communication at I.I.T. Bombay and in 1989, she graduated with Master in Design (Visual Communication) with a specialization in Advanced Illustration and Video. To study animation formally, she pursued her M.Phil in Animation at the Royal College of Art in London. Her thesis was on 'Indigenous Images and Narratives for Socially Relevant Animation'.

Career

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After receiving her masters, she worked for six months in 1989, as an intern under renowned Indian animator Ram Mohan after which she went on to work for two years as a filmmaker at the TATA Institute of Social Sciences. At TISS, she made films on themes such as mental health, blind parents bringing up sighted children and the social implications of art.

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After her M.Phil. in Animation, in 1996, she produced her first animation film 'Mani's dying' which was based on a 1960s pioneering marathi novel called Kosala.

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In 2001, she returned to the Industrial Design Centre at I.I.T Bombay and was responsible for setting up the centre's first degree program in animation. Its first batch graduated in 2006.

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Her latest curatorial endeavor includes two large volumes: Plant Life and Child Farmers. While 'Plant Life' is an anthology of children’s drawing and writing on their perceptions on lower and higher plants, 'Child Farmers' portrays the lives of the children of the farmers of Vidarbha who lost their fathers to suicide.

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In 2013, she directed her first feature-length animation film Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya for the Children's Film Society of India. The film is an adaptation of a 1915 children's story by Upendra Kishore Roychowdhury about two musician friends on an adventure. Her film has premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and has been screened at numerous film festivals such as Busan Korea, MAMI India, DIFF Dubai and NYICFF New York among others.

She is also a founding member of Damroo which is responsible for creating content for children where she produced books and films while working closely with children. She has also illustrated numerous books for children for leading publishers in the country such as Scholastic, Eklavya, Pratham and Karadi Tales.

References

Shilpa Ranade Wikipedia