Georgekutty A.L./ Open Cinema Consortium Blog

Georgekutty A.L., Open Cinema Blogger

Georgekutty A. L is the founder editor of Deep Focus Film Quarterly and the Secretary of Bangalore Film Society. A graduate in political science from Bangalore University he holds diplomas in Indian and western philosophy and world religions from St. Antony’s Friary, Bangalore, in film studies from the National Film Archive of India Pune, and The Film and Television Institute of India Pune, and in Human Rights from the Institute of Social Sciences, The Hague.　In 2004, he was on the selection committee of the Mumbai International Film Festival for documentary, short and animation films for the International Competition and a jury member of the Environmental Film Festival, Freiburg, Germany. He is also the founder and director of the international film festival ‘Voices from the Waters’, a traveling film festival, and coordinates the Breakthrough Tricontinental Film Festival, Human Rights in Frames in Bangalore and its outreach programmes in South India. He has coordinated study abroad programmes for the University of Iowa in 2005 and 06 for the Centre for Informal Education and Development Studies, Bangalore. He organizes thematic film festivals and conferences for institutions and the public on contemporary social issues to explore how cultural politics impact and shape modern cultural practices, politics, aesthetic sensibilities and social behavior.