Printed Rainbow
Animation | English | 15 min | India | 2006 | 35 mm |
Directed, Produced, Animated by: Gitanjali Rao
Sound Design: Rajivan Ayyappan
A big city. A tiny apartment. There, in solitude, live an old woman and her cat, stuck in their daily chores against the hiss of the city.
The Windows look out into more windows with more desolate lives.
The old woman, however, has a secret window: her precious collection of match boxes. Their printed labels open into a myriad of exotic worlds. The cat is the sole companion in her explorations of these magical worlds where beauty, imagination and wonder triumph over the insignificance of her existence.
Director
Gitanjali Rao was born in
1972, India . She is a gold medalist from Sir JJ Institute of Applied
Art, Mumbai.
A self taught animator, she learned on the job during her association with many studios and film projects early in her career. Her keen interest in narrative techniques got her into acting and stage crafts for a while. Painting, theater, folk arts of a culturally rich land finally synthesized into the art of making animation films.
An earlier experimental animation short, Orange (2002) won many awards and critical acclaim internationally.
She also has a string of very popular animated commercials to her credit.
Gitanjali Rao currently is an independent animator and illustrator who makes her own films along with her professional assignments.
Festivals
Printed rainbow has screened at over 60 international festivals, some of which are:
2006
Cannes Critic's Week (France)
Annecy 2006 (France)
Animafest (Zagreb)
Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK)
Athens International Film Festival (Greece)
Pusan International Film Festival (S. Korea)
BFI London International Film Festival (UK)
Valladolid International Film Festival (Spain)
DOK Leipzig (Germany)
Rio De Janeiro International Short film Festival (Brazil)
10th Tallinn Black Nights Film
Festival (Estonia)
Mumbai International Film Festival (India)
2007
Flickerfest Film Festival (Australia)
Slamdance Film Festival (USA)
Anima 2007 (Belgium)
Birds Eye View Film Festival (UK)
Hong Kong International
Film Festival
AFI Dallas International Film Festival (USA)
Aspen ShortsFest (USA)
Filmfest Dresden (Germany)
MOMA- India Now (New York)
Indielisboa 2007 (Portugal)
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (Germany)
Seoul International
Cartoon and Animation Festival (S. Korea)
Krakow International Film Festival (Poland)
Tokyo
ShortShorts & Asia (Japan)
Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia)
KROK
International Animated Film Festival (Ukraine)
Awards
Golden Conch for best animation
film, MIFF 2006.
Kodak Discovery for best short film
Critic's Week, CANNES 2006.
Young Critic's Award for best short film
Critic's Week, CANNES 2006.
Petite Rail D'Or for best short film Critic's
week, CANNES 2006.
Golden
Spike for the best short film
Valladolid Intl. Film Festival 2006, SPAIN
Grand Prix - Tokyo ShortShorts 2007
Best Short Award - Asia International Competition, Tokyo ShortShorts
2007
FIPRESCI Award for Best Animation Short - Krakow International Film
Festival 2007, POLAND
Special Mention - Filmfest Dresden 2007- GERMANY
Special Mention - IFFLA 2007, USA
Audience Award for Best Short Film -Cine-Arte II ,Fuendetodos 2007 SPAIN
Swiss
TV Best Animation Short CinemaTou
Enfant 2006 SWITZERLAND
ASIFA Award of Excellence ASIFA 2006, Mumbai, INDIA
Best Short Film-Cuenca International
Women’s Film Week SPAIN, 2006
Best Animated film GOLD Award 2007
Indian Documentary Producer's Association, INDIA
Woman Achievers Award 2007-Giant's International,
INDIA
FICCI BAF Award 2007 for best short-
Professional, INDIA
FICCI BAF Award 2007 for Outstanding Indian
Content, INDIA
ELLEN Award for the most original film Aspen
shorts, USA, 2007.
Reviews
Filmography
Orange
Animation | English | 4 min | color | 2002
Script, Director, Animator, Producer: Gitanjali
Rao
Sound: D Wood and Storms
Awards
I.D.P.A. (Indian Documentary Film Producers Association) -2003.
I.N.S.E.A (India and South East Asian Animation Festival - TOONZ)-2003.
British Council Digital Film Fest award - 2004.
Contact
Gitanjali Rao
C 305, Country Park
Dattapada Road
Borivali East
Mumbai 400 066
INDIA
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