Murali Raman

Director Biography - Murali Raman

Murali Raman – Bio & Past Work
https://linktr.ee/Muralir

Writer, Poet, Blogger, Adman, Television Creative, Short Filmmaker, Photographer, Painter and Installation Artist, I have extensive script-writing, film making, advertising, web content and (conducting) Creative and Art Workshops experience. I am a consultant Director – Communications & Digital Marketing on a freelance basis.

After a good innings in Advertising, as Creative Director at Grey Cells Productions (now Mind’s Eye), I created/ worked on Environment-related and Human Interest Documentaries, Feature Film projects and TV Program Designs. I have experience in vetting international Feature film screenplays for Line Production feasibility. I script-doctor film scripts and edits novels for other writers as well.

Television Creative Direction, Concept, Story, Scripts
I have creative-directed two scripts for other feature film writer-directors, have co-produced, part-written and creative-directed 3 children’s teleserials - The Magic Make Up Box, for Zee TV, Door Door Doorbeen, for Hungama TV (UTV), and Chi n Me, another Zee TV production, and an award-winning (CNBC Golden Cursor Writers’ Award) children’s live –action animation Edutainment DVD of nursery rhymes, Rhymetime in Toyland for Shemaroo. I have made travel & tourism documentaries for Anala Outdoors on Manali & Himachal Pradesh, The Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, Medical NGOs, a fun short film, Chocolate Xcess. My Art practice _ I paint oils, acrylics on canvas, wall murals, make art installations - also employs video & film. See www.muraliraman.com, and follow the social media links for work samples as well.

I have written the screenplay for a fantasy feature film Tachyons – The Creation of Happiness, part of a trilogy I have started to write; as well as The Room with a Two-way Mirror, a romantic fantasy set in two different centuries. I am rewriting them in novel form now.

Some of my film work samples can be seen on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPf5KHOrRSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsafPnR4eXY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1arGv7SqIvg

I’ve also published my book of poems on http://amzn.to/2qaoLON . Also illustrated by me with charcoal & graphite sketched, #FeelTouchSee – Connotations of Passion, is a deconstruction of modern-day myths, where feeling an emotion or action leads to exploring and touching, which in turn leads to understanding and realization.

Youtube id: Glimpsesofmywork has videos of some of my Art Installations and paintings as well.

Director Statement
One of my constant endeavors in my Art Practice revolves around interpreting man’s multiple theories on Creationism. How and Why was the Universe and all living beings created?

Theories of Cosmology or how the Universe came into being are as varied as the stars and galaxies themselves. I believe Vishnu's Cosmic Dream Sleep, Anantashayanam, corresponds to the most widely accepted scientific theory of Creation, the Big Bang and the Big Contraction...creation and destruction.


I conceived this Video Art project, an Art and Philosophy-related concept, to interpret it in my fashion, employing my own painting work in animation, on a live action -2 D animation platform.., to bring it alive.

Official Selections:
Lanzarote Arts Festival, Canary Island, 2019
Larroque Arts Fest, France
Indie Short Fest , LA, USA - Animation
Indie Short Fest , LA, USA - Best Short Film
Indie Short Fest , LA, USA - VFX
Indie- X Film Fest, LA
Druk Intl. Film Festival, Bhutan
The $5 Film Festival - Semi-Finalist
Arunachal Arts & Literature Festival, Arunachal Pradesh, India
8th Mumbai Intl. Short film Festival
Golden state Film Festival, L A
Awards
DIFF-2019
- Best Experimental Film,
Five Continents International Film Fest, Venezuela, 2019
- Best Experimental Film
- Best Art Direction
- Special Mention for VFX