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 and 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, now streaming on Apple TV and YouTube Movies; and Removal of the Eye, Special Jury Award winner at New Orleans Film Festival, coming to US theaters this spring via Cinema Conservancy.

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