CHANDRASEKHAR REDDY
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
Chandrasekhar Reddy is an independent producer/director, having extensive experience in a variety of documentary formats – factual, developmental and environmental. Previous credits include films for National Geographic Asia, Discovery Asia, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Ministry of Tourism GoI, and BBC.. His short ‘Coalboy’ was part of the “Why Poverty’ series. ‘Fireflies in the Abyss’, is his debut feature length documentary.
COOPER-MOORE
MUSIC
As a composer, performer, instrument builder/designer, storyteller, teacher, mentor, and organizer, Cooper-Moore has been a major, if somewhat behind-the-scenes, catalyst in the world of creative music for over 30 years. As a child prodigy Cooper-Moore played piano in churches near his birthplace in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, USA. His performance roots in the realm of avant jazz music date to the NYC Loft Jazz era in the early/mid-70s. Over the years he has performed and recorded with several jazz groups: Apogee (with David S Ware), In Order to Survive (with William Parker) and Digitial Primitives (with Asif Tsahar). While his attention has focused on piano performance in New York clubs and touring abroad, he spends a great part of his creative time working and performing with theatre and dance productions, largely utilizing his hand-crafted instruments. He has also been keenly involved in developing and implementing curriculum to teach children through music.
MUSIC
As a composer, performer, instrument builder/designer, storyteller, teacher, mentor, and organizer, Cooper-Moore has been a major, if somewhat behind-the-scenes, catalyst in the world of creative music for over 30 years. As a child prodigy Cooper-Moore played piano in churches near his birthplace in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, USA. His performance roots in the realm of avant jazz music date to the NYC Loft Jazz era in the early/mid-70s. Over the years he has performed and recorded with several jazz groups: Apogee (with David S Ware), In Order to Survive (with William Parker) and Digitial Primitives (with Asif Tsahar). While his attention has focused on piano performance in New York clubs and touring abroad, he spends a great part of his creative time working and performing with theatre and dance productions, largely utilizing his hand-crafted instruments. He has also been keenly involved in developing and implementing curriculum to teach children through music.
ABHRO BANERJI
EDITOR
Having trained at Roopkala Kendro, Kolkata, Abhro now lives and works in Mumbai, India. Over the years he has worked on both fiction and non-fiction films and has brought his keen sensibility and skill to several award winning films, that include amongst others, Nero’s Guest, Distance, Quarter No 4/11, Ebong Bewarish (and the Unclaimed) and Our Metropolis. Although professionally an editor his unqualified abilities extend to being a talented musician and sound designer.
OLLIE HUDDLESTON
EDIT CONSULTANT
Ollie lives in Devon, England and is an award-winning film editor with over 20 years of experience. Working in television and cinema, his collaborations have included films with some of documentary's leading directors, like Kim Longinotto, Sean McAllister, Angus Macqueen, Leo Regan and Adam Curtis. The films he has worked on have won prizes all over the world, including at Cannes and Sundance. He has twice been nominated for a BAFTA and won two Royal Television Society editing awards.
GISSY MICHAEL
SOUND
A graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Gissy works and lives in Mumbai. Gissy has done location sound and sound design for a wide variety of films, including fiction features, documentaries and also television. Her credits include Margarita, with a Straw, When Hari got Married, The Blueberry Hunt, The Rat Race and Mansarover. .
