Writing and Directing the Sucessful Short

13Oct/080

Writing and Directing the Sucessful Short

Quick note for anyone in the Los Angeles area...

I'll be hosting a program tomorrow (Tuesday) night talking with filmmaker Rajeev Dassani:

Writing & Directing the Successful Short
October 14 @ 7:30pm
Black Dahlia
5453 W. Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019
Admission: $10 (suggested donation)
Reservations: Email nyuwriters@yahoo.com and put "SHORTS" in the subject line. Please include your name, school, and year of graduation.

Our first Shorts Boot Camp evening will feature a conversation with Rajeev Dassani writer and director of short film "A Day's Work".

Rajeev Dassani began his career as an artist and painter, before discovering that he wanted to move beyond the still image and mix narrative and auditory elements in his work, thus he turned his focus to storytelling and filmmaking.

After studying film under the Emmy award winning director Joan Darling in North Carolina, he studied film at the University of Southern California, where he won among other awards the James Bridges Directing Award, The Barbara Corday Award and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Award. His thesis film, "A Day's Work" has played at over 50 film festivals around the world and won dozens of awards, including top prizes at the Gen Art Film Festival, AFI Dallas and the Florida Film Festival, and recently the prestigious gold medal at the Student Academy Awards. His film is currently in contention for the Best Narrative Short Film Award at the Academy Awards.

In his spare time he co-owns a visual effects company with his twin brother currently responsible for all the VFX on the "Knight Rider" TV series on NBC.

He is currently working as a writer and director with several projects in development, including an independent feature he hopes to be shooting early next year and a feature film based on his short film, "A Day's Work".