Uttam Kumar Thangiah

Experience

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  ABADI MEDIA

  Jan 1993 - Jan 2009

  FILM DIRECTOR

  SCRIPTWRITER AND DIRECTOR, COMPANY DIRECTOR

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  SONA ARTHAUS

  Jan 2007 - Apr 2012

  SCREENWRITER & FILM DIRECTOR
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  BESTFRIENDZ PICTURES

  Jan 2007 - now

  Training young filmmakers in the MIFTWA/SEDIC Film Workshops from February 2017.Started documentary series on Malaysian Tamil cinema CINEMA YENUM NATHIYINILE (IN THE RIVER OF CINEMA) for Astro in November 2016.Completed trailer for PRIEST in September 2016.Attended Keith Cunningham's DRAMATURGY FOR PRODUCERS Workshop at the International Filmschule in Cologne, Germany in March 2016Received a Development Grant from CONTENT MALAYSIA PITCHING CENTRE for my English feature project PRIEST in 2015 end.Wrote and Directed the telemovie PUTHANDUKU VANTHA PERUCHAALI (THE RODENT THAT CAME FOR THE NEW YEAR) for ASTRO in 2014.Wrote and Directed NEHRU OUR HERO a telemovie in Tamil for TV2 late 2012Completed BLESS ALBERT - a feature film script in English based on the true life of a schizophrenia patient who authored a book on himself.Scripted and Directed HYDERABAD - CITY OF PEARL, documentary.Rewrote RUMBLES IN THE SKY, crossover script in English with love, power and paranoia as the emotional conflicts of a wheelchair bound husband.Script and Direction for Malaysian feature film PULAU ASMARA (Love Island)Concept and Direction for television medical series ALL IN THE MIND, on mental health issues.Script and Direction for television serial in Tamil PITHAMANAM (Father's Heart) Show less

  • CO-OWNER and FILM DIRECTOR

    Apr 2012 - now

  • SCREENWRITER & FILM DIRECTOR

    Jan 2007 - now
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  FERRINGHI FILM CENTRE

  Jun 2016 - now

  DIRECTOR & SCRIPT WRITER