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Madhu Eravankara is an internationally acclaimed film director, film critic, film scholar and writer. He was born in Eravankara, located in.
He was juror in Mumbai International Film Festival - 2003, International Documentary Film festival-2005, Yamagata, Japan, Brisbane International Film Festival-2006, Brisbane, Australia, Istanbul International Film Festival-2008, Istanbul, Tukey, Toronto International Film Festival-2010, Toronto, Canada, International Film Festival Mannheim -Heidelberg- 2011, Germany and Busan International Film Festival-2012,South Korea . He has directed the feature film Nankooram and around twenty documentaries including Nishadam, Victims of Silence, Punarakhyanam, Punarjjani and Kerala Paninini that have received local and international acclaim.He has directed a docufiction- Pakalmazha for the Social Welfare Board, Govt. of Kerala.Magic Wheel,his documentary was made as a part of workshop conducted in Indian School, Bahrain.
He is the recipient of President's Gold Medal & National Film Award, State Film Awards,Film Critics Awards, State Television Award, AFFMA International Documentary Film Award-2012 and Greens-2012 Award for Environmental films. He has also been awarded a Senior Fellowship for Outstanding Artists, from the Indian Government’s Department of Culture, to research on Indian Literature and Cinema and a Fellowship from National Film Archive of India to research on Malayalam Literature and Cinema.
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