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Film & Theater Actor, Director & Author
R Amarendran is an Indian theatre director & actor who has directed and acted in several plays in English and French. Amarendran's love for acting started in the 1980s during his college days. He was part of Girish Karnad's play Tughlaq which soon led him to get minor roles in Mithran Devanesan's Gilbert and Sullivan musicals. He later acted in English plays for several theatre groups in Chennai. In 1989 he was one the four Indians to be selected by the French government to go the L'ecole Nationale d'art Dramatique at the Theatre National de Strasbourg in France to train in acting and to act in a French play that was staged in Delhi, Calcutta and Strasbourg. On his return from France he decided to direct plays himself and in 1992 he founded the Theatre Arlequin. He staged more than 25 plays in English and French the most notable of which were Tartuffe by Moliere, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco, The Maids by Jean Genet and Tony Kushner's adaptation of Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique. His film career started in 2008 when he landed the main villain’s role in the movie Bale Pandya directed by Siddharth Chandrasekhar featuring Vishnu Vishal as the protagonist. He has acted in a major role in the critically acclaimed Vidiyum Munn which was inspired by the British film "London to Brighton". He later played the role of a history teacher in the multi-Oscar winner Hollywood film "Life of Pi". Amarendran has acted in many Tamil films like Jil Jung Juk, Vidiyum Munn, Vikram Vedha and Kabali. Amarendran has conducted numerous acting workshops for aspiring actors across India and has a strong penchant for teaching.
Script Writer, Director & Producer
John Edathattil aka Sab John is one of the most critically acclaimed Script writer in Tamil and Malayalam film industry. John has penned the Script for more than 30 feature films in Tamil and Malayalam. John became interested in Script writing early in his accounting career and started working on script writing. His noted works include Kamal Hassan starer Malayalam film Chanakyan, Guna and Kuruthipunal. His other noted films include Vyooham(1990), Gandhari (1993), Soorya Manasam(1992), Highway (1995 film), Sillunu Oru Kadhal (2006), Mayilpeelikkavu(1998) and Priyam(1999). He has framed Screen writing course curriculum for various universities in India and has trained many aspiring screen writers in India and abroad. John E has also worked as a Director and Producer for numerous Ad films and documentaries.
Cinematographer & Actor
Santhosh Nambirajan is a cinematographer and an Indian actor, who performs in Tamil language films. As a Cinematographer Santhosh has assisted National Award winning Cinematographer Chezhian in many films like Paradesi, Thaarai Thappatai,Joker, Thenmerku Paruvakaatru to name a few. He is recognized for the protagonist role he played in the film To Let. To Let has won more than 62 awards in various film festivals across the world including the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil at the 65th National Film Awards.
Director, Actor & Writer
Thilip kumar is a Software Engineer turned Independent Film maker. His first film Gubeer which was a limited release received a positive critical response, with particular praise for its novel structure and narrative. Director Karthik Subburaj of Petta praised the movie as an experimental film which is gutsy, bold & filled with fun. Thilip produced his second film through crowd funding and waiting for the release of Gubeer Part 2.
Cinematographer
Vijay worked as a photo journalist for the Vikatan Group before working as a cinematographer. He assisted the camera teams of some of the commercially successful films including Bommalattam, Chera's Autograph, Yaaradi Nee Mohini and Ajith's Varalaru. He subsequently worked as an independent cinematographer in ad films, working for over fifty brands, and then worked on assignments for documentaries for BBC about PT Usha. In 2009, he got his first big break as a cinematographer for Rajesh Lingam’s Pugaippadam, after which he worked on Maathi Yosi. He subsequently worked on Ondipuli and Nagaram. He used practical lights instead of the traditional film set lighting in the web series Nila Nila Odi Vaa. Vijay enjoys teaching and has conducted numerous workshops on Cinematography.
Our mission is to train interested and imaginative individuals in creative as well as technological aspects of filmmaking and television productions. We thereby will make the student capable of making programs that will entertain people and also convey a social message of importance making the very endeavour a meaningful one.
It is to make ZEFT Film School an institution to be reckoned with and an excellence centre for training in all aspects of film-making.
ZEFT Film School in Chennai is the result of the endeavour to bring the art and craft of filmmaking to those passionate individuals who want to breathe life into still pictures and stories untold as yet to the world. We at ZEFT have set up this institution not to just create technicians at filmmaking but to enable people to think beyond prosaic life and find a means to entertain the audience the world over.
We, at the ZEFT film college in Chennai, have structured courses that give in-depth knowledge as well as practical hands-on training on all aspects of film-making, with the result that we churn out the best film technicians who are adept in every aspect of this fine art.
ZEFT film institute in Chennai offers many different courses in film-making that span from the conceptualization of the story to digitization. It naturally follows that we house all the equipment, the requisite infrastructure and facilities required for conducting the courses under one single roof.
We have employed masters in filmmaking as in-house faculty members. We also have equally adept guest faculty. We have designed the practical and theory classes to work in perfect balance, with the result that the course is comprised of lectures, practice sessions and subject-intensive workshops.
We ensure that students are exposed to high-quality films from all over the world to update the students with the latest techniques and enhance their knowledge of filmmaking. AT ZEFT Film School in Chennai we extend our full support to the students that join our film course and even go the extra mile in finding the best placements for them in reputed film and TV production houses, both national and international.
That at ZEFT we have exclusive industry tie-ups that keep us updated on the latest developments that are taking place. We transform as is required and this has undoubtedly made ours the best film institute in Chennai.
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Phone: 97905 57222
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