Wade
Directors:
Upamanyu Bhattacharyya et Kalp Sanghvi
Duration:
10 minutes
Year:
2019
Category:
Animated short film
Synopsis
In a version of Kolkata, India, rendered unlivable by sea level rise, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger on the flooded streets.
Country & Language:
India
No dialogue
Production:
Ghost Animation
Upamanyu Bhattacharyya
A graduate from NID Ahmedabad, Upamanyu is an animator, filmmaker, comic artist and illustrator. He co-directed the highly acclaimed short film ‘Wade’ with Kalp Sanghvi. As a founding partner of Ghost Animation, Kolkata, he has also worked on a wide range of animation and illustration projects for clients including Google, Amazon, Doctors Without Borders, Penguin. He also has substantial experience in working with live action filmmakers.
He worked on the title sequence for acclaimed director Mani Ratnam’s film ‘OK Kanmani’ and storyboarded his next film, ‘Kaatru Veliyidai’. He also worked with Academy Award winning composer A.R. Rahman to create storyboards for his VR project, ‘Le Musk’. He is a published comic artist, with his graphic short stories appearing in anthologies by Harper Collins and Scholastic. He has also taught numerous courses as a visiting faculty at NID, and at other film schools in India.
Kalp Sanghvi
A graduate from NID Ahmedabad, Kalp is an animation filmmaker and illustrator. He co-directed and wrote the highly acclaimed animated short ‘Wade’ with Upamanyu Bhattacharyya.
His main pursuit is telling indigenous stories with local flavour, building on the massive range of yet untold Indian stories. In 2015, he co-founded Ghost Animation, Kolkata. The studio has since been taking the medium of animation to the masses at home and beyond. He has worked on various animation and illustration projects for clients including Penguin, Amazon, Sony Entertainment India, Animal planet and Medecins Sans Frontieres. He has also worked on title sequences for feature films, including acclaimed director Mani Ratnam’s film ‘OK Kanmani’ and ‘102 Not Out’ by Umesh Shukla, featuring Amitabh Bachchan & Rishi Kapoor. His artworks have also been published in Penguin and Scholastic publications.
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