Vikram Jayanti

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Vikram Teja Jayanti is an Indian-American documentary filmmaker responsible for a number of well known full-feature documentary films. [1] Two films he has production credits on have received Academy Awards for Best Full-Feature Documentary: he was a co-producer of the 1997 blockbuster When We Were Kings [2] and a creative consultant on 2005's Born Into Brothels . A sampling of his other work includes Innocents Abroad, The Man Who Bought Mustique , James Ellroy's Feast of Death , Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine , [3] Lincoln [4] and The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector. [5] [6] He and his films have also won a number of other awards, including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and have been nominated for others. [7] [8]

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Jayanti is currently a Film Studies tutor at University College London. [9] He is a frequent collaborator with the award-winning film-maker Anthony Wall, Editor of BBC Arena.

Early life

Vikram Jayanti was born in New York in 1955, and spent his childhood variously in France, Italy, Switzerland, India and Costa Rica. He completed his education in England at Tonbridge School and attended the University of Warwick.

Career

After seeing Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Werner Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser in the same week he moved to Los Angeles in 1977 to become a filmmaker. He began producing anthropological documentaries, including In Her Own Time , about the anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff, [10] and later ran two documentary film festivals in Los Angeles. His future work garnered numerous awards, such as a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and an Oscar in 1997 for When We Were Kings .

Since then he has directed a series of feature documentaries, which his friends call his "American monsters" series, about larger-than-life characters such as Ken Kesey, James Ellroy, Julian Schnabel, Garry Kasparov , [11] Abraham Lincoln and Phil Spector. The Man Who Bought Mustique , which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2000, was nominated for a BAFTA, and the UK's Channel Four version of the film won the Indie award for Best Documentary in 2000.

Jayanti is known for "his gonzo choice of subjects," and he "has also produced high-profile television documentaries with his signature combination of eccentricity and amazement." [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "BBC - BBC Four Storyville - Vikram Jayanti Interview". Archived from the original on February 10, 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Vikram Jayanti", IMDb.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 19, 2007. Retrieved January 8, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ The New York Times Movies
  5. ↑ Thorpe, Vanessa, arts and media correspondent (February 18, 2008). "Phil Spector breaks his silence before second trial for murder". London: Music Guardian. Retrieved June 30, 2010.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector". IMDb . Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "Vikram Jayanti | Awards", IMDb.
  8. ↑ "Television Awards". 31 July 2014.
  9. ↑ Film Courses - Tutors Archived February 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine . ucl.ac.uk
  10. ↑ "In Her Own Time: The Final Fieldwork of Barbara Myerhoff (VHS)". Archived from the original on July 10, 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
  11. ↑ Geoffrey Macnab, "To kill a king", The Guardian, January 15, 2004.
  12. ↑ "HOME". Archived from the original on April 12, 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
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