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RESUME
Senthil Kumar

1230 North Fuller Ave. #8
West Hollywood CA 90046 USA


senthil@scriptwriters.com

AGE: 35years



PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

A. Creative domain:

¨ Screenwriter - "GUIANA", a period film produced by RBC Films, New York, USA. April 2000 (This project is currently behind schedule and in the pre production stage - sample site and screenplay at www.guyanamovie.8m.com May 2000.

¨ Asst. Director - "Jungle Boy", a motion picture directed by Allan Goldstein, and produced by Royal Oaks Entertainment, Hollywood, USA.
June 1996.

¨ Asst. Director - "Inferno", a motion picture directed by Fred Olen Ray, and produced by Metro Film Corporation, Hollywood, USA.
July-August 1996.

¨ Cinematographer, "Don" a documentary on Don Clark, the controversial military attaché to the Soviet Union, for Public Broadcasting Service, Montana, USA.
July 1991.

¨ Assistant Director - "Katha Vishesham" a telefilm made for Asianet by Absolute Productions, Bangalore.
Nov 1992.

¨ Field cameraman and technical director - two seasons of live sports productions of the NCAA Football and Basketball events of the Big Sky Conference, for KUSM-TV9 and for KCTZ-TV7 in the USA, feeding ESPN and Prime Sports Networks.
Jan 1991-Aug 1992

¨ Cameraman, floor manager, audio director, technical director and board operator, for KUSM-TV9, a Public Broadcasting Service affiliate in Montana, on studio productions, documentaries, news services and fund raisers.
Jan 1991-Aug 1992


B. Technical/Business Domains:

¨ Technical Consultant - currently providing technical know how and configuring turnkey solutions for acquisition, location editing, and post production to movie production companies migrating to High Definition Digital content creation in USA and India. (Examples: Aalayam Pictures, Chennai, GDR Multimedia, Bangalore)

¨ Consulting Project Director - "Dhakshini" - A broadband entertainment portal for Global South Indians. (Launch pending).

Wrote the design brief and secured channel partnerships with Apple Computer for web development and web streaming technologies, Celstream (www.celstream.com) for a custom media player development and media streaming, and Purple Yogi (www.purpleyogi.com) for personalisation of content. Nov 2000 - Feb 2001.

¨ Business and Technical Consultant to Precious Microtech Pvt. Ltd. (Multimedia Division) Chennai, India.

Wrote the business plan for Precious Digital - the proposed digital domain motion picture post production and online production company. Prepared the technical white paper for the entire facility. (Nov 1999-March 2000)

¨ Business and Technical Consultant to PCL Mindware (Multimedia Division). Enabled a strategic relationship between Mindware and Cinesite - the digital film division of Eastman Kodak in Hollywood, USA.

Provided Mindware with technical expertise and a business plan for setting up a studio for digital domain special effects for motion pictures.
June 1995 to May 1996

Note: Usually, this kind of association provides my client companies with the ability to make informed choices, take key business decisions, and manage their investments better.


ACADEMIC PROFILE:

¨ Undergraduate education in Motion Picture/ Video/ Television production at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.(91-92, 95-96)


SKILLS:

¨ Business planning & Technical writing for digital domain ventures in the entertainment and multimedia industries.

¨ Identifying, negotiating and securing channel partnerships for startup entertainment and multimedia companies.

¨ Screenwriting for film and television.

¨ Production planning for film and television single camera and multicamera productions.

¨ Lighting for film and video.

¨ Shooting film (8,16, and 35mm) on Canon, Arriflex, and Aaton cameras.

¨ Editing film on flatbed editors.

¨ Shooting broadcast video with every kind of broadcast camera from archaic three tube cameras to the newer digital cameras.

¨ Sound recording on locations.

¨ Video Editing and post production on linear and non linear systems like Grass Valley, Avid, Matrox Digisuite, Apple Final Cut Pro etc.

¨ Sound mixing and editing in both analog and digital domains.

¨ Directing talent, directing live multicamera productions.

¨ Planning, designing and shooting for green screen work and working with computer graphics specialists in special effects productions.

¨ Budgeting and scheduling productions using Movie Magic software.

¨ Identifying, recommending, and configuring turnkey technical solutions to production houses and film and video productions.


OTHER EXPERIENCES:

¨ Was part of the winning Karnataka team in the National Whaler Rowing Regatta held in the Southern Naval Command, Cochin. Represented the State of Karnataka in the Republic Day Competitions in 1984.

¨ Trained parajumper from the Para Training School of the Indian Air Force, Agra - 1983.

¨ Winner of Kristy Foundation Scholarship for Academic Excellence at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. Was always on the Dean's list of Merit at MSU during entire academic tenure.

¨ Was a deckhand on the "Northland", catching salmon in the Bering Sea near Alaska for three months - summer of 1992.

¨ Avid hiker, entertainment technology evangelist, and award winning photographer.


REFERENCES:

Will be provided upon request.

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