Masterclass and Retrospective with Bhakta Srinivas

Cartoons Underground is Southeast Asia’s largest independent animation festival, making art accessible! We showcase local talent alongside international artists, invite the public to meet the directors, and let attendees vote for their favorite at the Golden Durian Awards. Join us for an unforgettable celebration of animation!

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Join us as we look back and celebrate the career of award-winning local animation filmmaker, BHAKTA SRINIVAS.

LASALLE College of the Arts

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<h3>Join us as we look back and celebrate the career of award-winning local animation filmmaker, BHAKTA SRINIVAS.</h3>From making his first animated short "The Last Drop" in 2000, to his latest production "Pathrado" in 2022, Bhakta's animation journey spans more than 2 decades. In addition to our first-ever Retrospective Screening of Bhakta's selected films, Cartoons Underground is honoured to have Bhakta Srinivas conduct a Masterclass, where he will share more about his experiences, challenges and how he gets inspirations for all his films!<h3>ABOUT THE FILMMAKER</h3>Srinivas Bhakta is a graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, with Visual Communication and Graphic Design with a specialization in Animation Design.Currently working as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Design &amp; Media, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore. Besides teaching animation and design-related subjects he has created many short animation films which have been shown in prestigious international film festivals such as Annecy, Hiroshima, and Anima Mundi.His film - ‘Elephant: OK’ has bagged 3 awards including a ‘special Jury prize’ at Singapore International Festival Silver Screen Awards. This film was also turned into a children’s book published by Puffin, New Zealand. ‘My Father Is a Washerman’ has won First prize at the Digicon6 Singapore chapter and ‘Frog in a Well’ has won the “Creativity Award” in Japan Digicon6 Competition in 2011. Film ‘Curry Fish Head’ won Best Technical Production at Singapore Heritage Short Film Competition (2016) and ‘Golden Egg’ won Student’s Jury award at Asia Peace Festival, Islamabad (2017).

Pathrado (9 mins) 2022 Pathrado, a popular Konkani cuisine delicacy, brings a change in the routine life of a middle-aged couple.

Ek, Doni, Teeni (6 mins) 2020One of the versions of a Konkani folktale from south of India in which Uncle Crow takes refuge in Sister sparrows house.

Curry Fish Head (7 mins) 2014 The film tells story of a girl in midst of ever-changing landscape of Singapore from late 60’s to present day.

Golden Egg (8 mins) 2016 A pet bird goes through a trouble time with its greedy owners.

Elephant: OK (5 mins) 2005 Entering a forest where everyone is approved as elephants, a real elephant finds it difficult to prove himself an elephant.