Prashanth Kamalakanthan
“Man is not complete; he is yet to be. In what he is he is small, and if we could conceive him stopping there for eternity we should have an idea of the most awful hell.”
(Tagore, 1913)
Photo by Daniel Bergin. Don’t drag me!
Prashanth Kamalakanthan ❁
was born in Tirupati, India, and raised in North Carolina. He has been named Filmmaker of the Year at Duke University, a Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellow in Film, and as one of the “25 New Faces of Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. Prashanth is an Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and has taught previously at Brown University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and NYU’s Tisch Graduate Film. His award-winning short films have exhibited worldwide and are featured in The New York Times, Mother Jones, and The Nation. His debut feature, Have a Nice Life (2021), distributed by The Film Desk, was followed by New Strains (2023), which won a Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and is distributed by MEMORY; and Removal of the Eye (2024), Special Jury Award winner at New Orleans Film Festival.