 Tinge Krishnan Writer/Director Tinge graduated with a Bachelor in Medicine in 1993 and practiced as a hospital doctor until 1996 when she left to take a post graduate degree in film at NYU. She set up her own company Disruptive Element Films in 1995 and her first film Groove On A Stanley Knife garnered international critical acclaim, won several awards including the Silver Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Best European Film’ at Cineffable Film Festival and the Immaginaria’ award at the Bologna Film Festival in 1998. It was screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival, London Lesbian and Gay Festival, Austin, Uppsala and over 30 other festivals worldwide. The film was sold to Channel 4 and broadcast in 1997 and 1998.In 1999 she was selected as one of four directors to write and direct a three minute piece; Random Nights,shot in a day, to celebrate the launch of the FilmFour lab at the 1999 Edinburgh festival. She then wrote and directed Shadowscan which won a BAFTA for best short film in 2001 and best UK short at Raindance film festival. It was in competition at Edinburgh Film Festival and was screened at over 50 international festivals including Sundance and Berlin. Tinge is a survivor/volunteer of the tsunami in Phuket and was an active part of the management team that set up the International Victim Co-ordination centre. Her experiences inspired her to return to Thailand to shoot the feature film Honey and Razorblades, currently in post-production. From 2001- 2005 Tinge was commissioned to write feature films for Working Title, Film Four, The Film Council and Little Bird (Jonathan Cavendish.)2005 saw her write and direct the stage play Backpacker Orpheus andin 2007 she was selected to direct The Circle; a drama for Channel 4 and IWC’s Coming up’ talent scheme and made her first MTV aired music video for the band Bib. Then followed It Comes and It Goes for Dido’s Safe Trip Home; a Mike Mills style documentary music video about a Thai lady boy boxer, a video for Emmanuel Jal’s War Child and another for the band Opera House. In 2008 her short film First was screened at various festivals including competition in Berlin and Edinburgh and won the Audi Channel Reel Talent Award. Tinge is currently represented in the UK by Nish Panchal and Sam Greenwood at Curtis Brown. Features in development: LITTLE SISTERS Oscar Films / Working Title 2 / Film Council PIGGIES Little Bird SOUL SHIVERS (previously HEDONIC CALCULUS) Disruptive Element Films / FilmFour / Spirit Dance LES FLEURS DU MAL Disruptive Element Films Completed work: 2002 Family Planning Association Commercials 2000 SHADOWSCAN Disruptive Element Films / BFI / FilmFour / YMPA / Arts Council * Made with ‘New Directors’ scheme award. 1999 RANDOM NIGHTS Ideal World Films / FilmFour 1996 GROOVE ON A STANLEY KNIFE Disruptive Element Films / YMPA * Winner, Silver Spire Award, San Francisco International Film Festival 1997 |
Daniela Zanzotto Director/Producer/Camera Daniela Zanzotto joined Disruptive Element Films in 1997. She specialises in documentary film making as director, producer and camera woman. Born in the US, of French and Italian parents, she grew up in the UK where she currently lives. Daniela completed her Masters degree in French History and Literature at the University of Rochester, USA. In the summer of 1996, with a few short courses in film making under her belt, she set off to Paris to make her first documentary IF THE WALLS COULD SPEAK. She completed in April 1998 and loved the process so much that she decided to take up filmmaking instead of returning to her PhD programme. After doing a few community-based video projects, Daniela went on to make her second documentary KISSED BY ANGELS (10 min, MiniDV transferred to 35mm) which won Best Documentary Short at the Cleveland International Film Festival (2002), and a Certificate of Merit at the Golden Gate Awards in San Francisco (2002). It was broadcast on the Sundance Channel in the US in 2003 and Channel 4 in the UK in November 2004. Daniela’s next documentary BATTAGLIA, a 58 minute documentary, was two years in the making. It premiered at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival and has been shown at many festivals internationally and won the Audience Award at Biografilm in Bologna in 2005. It has been broadcast on numerous European TV channels including the prestigious ARTE France in July 2007. The feature documentary ZONED IN is Daniela’s most recent film. It took 10 years to make and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, winning the NY loves Film Award for Best Documentary. As well as many film festivals, this film has been screened by organisations and institutions that are involved with urban education, including the New School for Social Research in New York. In addition to the films, Daniela has been a contributor in two film related publications in 2005, “Holocaust and the Moving Image” and “Get Your Documentary Funded and Distributed.” The former, published by Wallflower Press, is based on a five-day symposium held at the Imperial War Museum in London. Daniela was invited to show “If the Walls Could Speak” and to give a talk about the film and how she made it. She was then invited to contribute an essay based on her presentation. The latter is published by the established film organisation in the UK, Shooting People. Daniela was included in a group of international documentary film makers who were interviewed about various aspects of funding and making documentaries. ZONED IN, 2008 Produced, filmed and directed by Daniela Zanzotto Synopsis *NY Loves Film Award for Best Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival 2008 BATTAGLIA, 2004 Produced, filmed and directed by Daniela Zanzotto Synopsis *Audience Award for Best FIlm, Biografilm Festival, Italy 2005 Festival screenings including: Transmitted on: Worlwide distribution by First Hand Films, Switzerland. North American DVD distribution by National Film Network. KISSED BY ANGELS, 2001 Documentary, 10min, Mini DV transferred to 35mm Dolby SR, in English Produced, filmed and directed by Daniela Zanzotto Synopsis A Disruptive Element Films production in association with Yorkshire Arts, Yorkshire Media Production Agency, Stocklight Limited *Best Documentary Short Film, Cleveland International Film Festival, 2002 Screened at over 25 festivals world wide, including: Transmitted on: IF THE WALLS COULD SPEAK, 1998 Documentary, 52 min, Mini DV, in French w/English subtitles Produced, filmed and directed by DanielaZanzotto Synopsis *Winner of the first prize in the “Out of that Darkness” Film Season and Competition, first time director category, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, July 2000. Festival screenings including: Transmitted on: North American educational distribution by First Run Features/Icarus, USA. |