‘Paper’ screened at Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 2013
Categories: Documentary
My documentary short Paper was screened as part of a lecture on South Asian contemporary art, Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 2013
Kannan Arunasalam
I am a media consultant, filmmaker and narrative journalist who uses documentary, photography and multimedia forms of storytelling. I grew up in London and now split my time between Sri Lanka, Cambodia and the United Kingdom. I have over 5 years of experience in media production working for a variety of clients and under different grants including Al Jazeera English, the Ford Foundation, the US State Department and the World Bank. In addition, I have 8 years of experience of working in media restrictive, conflict and post-conflict environments, during which I conceptualised and developed award-winning new media narrative projects. I am also a qualified media and human rights lawyer and a former correspondent for Radio Netherlands Worldwide. I studied psychology at the University of Cambridge and international human rights at the University of Oxford, focusing on new media and conflict.
My work has been screened at international documentary festivals, selected as one of the best documentaries from South Asia for 2011-12 and broadcast on Al Jazeera English.
My clients include International Alert (London), the US State Department, International Water Management, Al Jazeera English and SBC Australia. I am available to work internationally from Sri Lanka, Cambodia and the United Kingdom.
Portfolio
‘Kerosene’ wins best documentary short, SAID 2013, Seattle, USA
Categories: Documentary
My film ‘Kerosene’ (16 mins) is the winner of the Prism award for best documentary short at the Seattle South Asian International Documentary Festival 2013.
‘Kerosene’ at South Asian International Documentary Festival 2013, SIFF Center, Seattle
Categories: Documentary
Kerosene (16 mins) in competition at South Asian International Documentary Festival 2013, Seattle, USA.
PIX Quarterly, India, October 2012
Categories: Photography
Featured in the Sri Lankan edition of this photography quarterly magazine.
‘Expressions of Identity’, Royal Commonwealth Society, London
Categories: Documentary, Multimedia, Photography
Invited to share some of my work at this event in London organised by the Royal COmmonwealth Society, International Alert and Voices for Reconciliation; chaired by George Alagiah and speaking alongside the writer Roshi Fernando and playwright Prassanna Puwanarajah.
Kerosene film screened at 8th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2012
Categories: Documentary
Short documentary film (16 mins) in competition at annual Aljazeera film festival in Doha, April 2012.
Paper broadcast on Aljazeera English, March 2012
Categories: Documentary
Paper broadcast on Aljazeera English, March 2012
Review of ‘Kerosene’, Time Out Mumbai, 2012
Categories: Documentary
Time Out previews a festival of documentaries from South Asia, Nandini Ramnath, February 17, 2012: “The new batch has two standout films. The first, Kerosene, is a curio about the Sri Lankan civil war, which ended in March 2009 … The crisp images, precisely composed shots and desaturated colour palette conjure up a city caught [...]
Kerosene
Categories: Documentary
In the 1990s, the Sri Lankan government’s embargoes on fuel, medicines and food items in the north and east of Sri Lanka in an effort to frustrate the operations of the Tamil Tigers reached their peak. In the face of dearth and hardship, the locals resorted to increasingly inventive ways of making do. ‘Kerosene’ is a short video portrait of resilience, expression and survival, capturing the stories of Jaffna’s taxi drivers and mechanics. ‘Kerosene’ was commissioned by http://groundviews.org. The film has been screened at international film festivals and is part of the selection for Travelling Film South Asia 2012, travelling all over South Asia and the world during 2012.
Kerosene selected for Travelling Film South Asia 2012
Categories: Documentary
Film Southasia has selected 12 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years to create the Travelling Film Southasia 2012 (TFSA ’12) package. The films have been selected from the 36 documentaries screened in the competitive section of Film Southasia 2011, held in Kathmandu. This mobile campaign to promote and popularise Southasian documentaries stops at [...]
Photography
A selection of photographs from my portfolio, largely from the I Am collection. Please get in touch if you’d like to purchase any of these images.
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