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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for
Dr.S. Krishnaswamy

For the Year 2005
 

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Dr.S.Krishnaswamy Writes and Directs Documentary Films and TV Serials. In June 2005, the US International Film & Video Festival, Los Angeles, conferred on him its prestigious “LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD” – making him the ninth recipient of this award over four decades of the festival, and the first from the Afro Asian continents to be so honored. In addition to Four National Awards for his short films, the other important awards he has won include the “HONOUR SUMMUS AWARD” conferred by The Watumull Foundation, Honolulu, for his “film making with a sense of social commitment, combining technical skill with creative finesse” ;

Dr.Krishnaswamy’s non-fiction films have covered wide ground - political issues, biographies, corporate & PR films, tourism, spiritual themes. His 1998 documentary “INDIA 5555” was chosen by the White House and screened for President Bill Clinton as part of his orientation to visit India. Earlier, his 4-hour documentary on Indian history, “INDUS VALLEY TO INDIRA GANDHI”, distributed by Warner Brothers, hit the headlines with much acclaim, in 1976.

The Tamil TV Serial, VISAALAM, written by Dr.S.Krishnaswamy, won the Mylapore Academy Award for the best TV story of 2002-03. The TV Serials directed by him include the novel “CHINNA KUYILI” (voted the most popular Tamil TV serial of Singapore in 1997) ; the dance production “SAVITRI” about which the BBC World Review said, “SAVITRI with Tamil lyrics by Dr S Krishnaswamy, choreographed and performed by Lata & Gita, receives all our felicitations for being on a new level of joyful experience for the Tamil language and arts” ; “UPASANA” (Hindi costume drama) based on the ancient Tamil twin-classics Silappadikaram & Manimegalai; “NALLATHOR VEENAI” (Tamil novel); the native Tamil Humour Classic “THUPPARIYUM SAMBU”.

Krishnaswamy took his M.A. in Film & Television from Columbia University, New York, in 1961, and later earned his Ph.D. In 1964, he founded KRISHNASWAMY ASSOCIATES (P) Ltd., which as a prestigious production banner celebrated its 40th Anniversary in September 2004.

Dr. Krishnaswamy is co-author with Erik Barnouw of the renowned book “INDIAN FILM”, (Oxford University Press). Over the years, he has addressed organizations such as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles; the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and The Washington Institute for Values, at the US capital; the International Documentary Symposium in USSR; the International Institute of Communications at Strasbourg, France; the International Institute of Audiovisual Media In Historical Research, at Gottingen, Germany.

Dr. Krishnaswamy has been, Secretary of the Jury for the International Film Festival of India; Chairman of the Jury for National Awards for Non-feature films for two terms; Chairman of AMIC’s Asian Conference on “Film as Communication” at Cheingmai, Thailand; Chairman of the Task Force on Culture, Tamilnadu State Planning Commission. He is a Founder and now Managing Trustee of The Catalyst Trust, a Social Activist Group.

Dr. Krishnaswamy is the son of Indian film pioneer and freedom fighter, “Director” K. Subrahmanyam, in whose honor, the Government of India released a Postal Stamp during his Birth Centenary celebrations in 2004.

 
 
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