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Dev Benegal (born 28 December, 1960 in New Delhi) India is a prolific Indian director, .

His independent film directorial debut was English, August in 1994 with which he shot to fame. Benegal later directed Split Wide Open in 1999. These two films brought a budding actor, Rahul Bose, to limelight.

Benegal’s films are set in contemporary India - an India most people never see on film. The strength of his films has been their humor, his characters and his unique style combining Indian narrative and western genre. His films are about people caught between many cultures, speaking seventeen languages and still making sense.

Benegal is acknowledged as a pioneer in digital technology; his was the first Indian feature film to adopt digital post production from picture editing on the Avid to sound design & delivery. His passion for technology and movies saw the birth of his pioneering production program .

Benegal has produced over 60 short feature films in his pioneering production program 24×7 Making Movies, which invites anyone below 24 years to make a short feature film in 24 hours. Variety and the Cannes International Film Festival have acclaimed the films. He has also curated Stories R Us, an Indian Diaspora Seminar and Film Festival for the British Council, which ran to, packed houses in Bombay and across the country with a focus on how narrative and storytelling is shaped and interpreted by the Indian Diaspora.

He is script advisor to the eQuinoxe tbc script workshops in France and Germany.�

Filmography

Feature Films

As Director

Road, Movie (2005)
Split Wide Open (1999)
English, August (1994)
Ravan & Eddie (in development)
Bombay, California (in development)
Stairway to Heaven (in development)

As Screenwriter

Road, Movie (2005)

Split Wide Open (1999)

English, August (1994)

Ravan & Eddie (in development)

Bombay, California (in development)

Stairway to Heaven (in development)
Mammaries of the Welfare State

As Film Editor

English, August (1994)

Documentaries and Television

Shabana! (2003)

: Opening film at New York Film Festival’s tribute to legendary Indian film star Shabana Azmi

Merchants & Marxists

:Stones of the Raj (Channel Four) Television, 1997

Field of Shadows

:South (Channel Four)Television, 1993

Abhivardhan

:Building for a New Life (Documentary)1992

Kalpavriksha

:The Tree of Life(Documentary) 1988

Kanakambaram

:Cloth of Gold (Documentary) 1987

Anantarupam

:The Infinite Forms (Documentary) 1987

Awards and Citations

Split Wide Open

Grand Prix Award
*Focus op het Zuiden, Turnout International Film Festival, Belgium 2000

Special Jury Award
*Singapore International Film Festival, 2000

Best Actor Award
*Singapore International Film Festival, 2000

Official Selection

*Venice International Film Festival, 1999
*Tokyo International Film Festival, 1999
*Toronto International Film Festival, 1999
*, 2000
*International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2000
*Vancouver International Film Festival, 1999
*Pusan International Film Festival, 1999
*Greenwich International Film Festival, 2000
*Local Heroes Film Festival, 2000
*Jerusalem Film Festival, 2000
*Melbourne International Film Festival
, 2000
*Warsaw International Film Festival, 2000
*Washington DC International Film Festival, 2000
*Hong Kong International Film Festival
, 2000
*Singapore International Film Festival, 2000
*Sitges International Film Festival, 2000
*Bratislava International Film Festival, 2000
*Kerala International Film Festival, 2000

English, August

Silver Montgolfiere (Silver Grand Prix)
*16th Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes France, 1994

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