Vikram Jayanti

Vikram Teja Jayanti is an Indian-American documentary filmmaker responsible for a number of well known full-feature documentary films.[1] Two films he has production credits on have received Academy Awards for Best Full-Feature Documentary: he was a co-producer of the 1997 blockbuster When We Were Kings[2] and a creative consultant on 2005's Born Into Brothels. A sampling of his other work includes Innocents Abroad, The Man Who Bought Mustique, James Ellroy's Feast of Death, Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine,[3] Lincoln[4] and The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector.[5][6] He and his films have also won a number of other awards, including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and have been nominated for others.[7][8]

Jayanti is currently a Film Studies tutor at University College London.[9] He is a frequent collaborator with the award-winning film-maker Anthony Wall, Editor of BBC Arena.

  1. ^ "BBC - BBC Four Storyville - Vikram Jayanti Interview". Archived from the original on February 10, 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
  2. ^ "Vikram Jayanti", IMDb.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 19, 2007. Retrieved January 8, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ The New York Times Movies
  5. ^ Thorpe, Vanessa, arts and media correspondent (February 18, 2008). "Phil Spector breaks his silence before second trial for murder". London: Music Guardian. Retrieved June 30, 2010. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector". IMDb. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Vikram Jayanti | Awards", IMDb.
  8. ^ "Television Awards". 31 July 2014.
  9. ^ Film Courses - Tutors Archived February 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. ucl.ac.uk