CURRICULUM VITAE

Cheryl Kanekar

cherylkanekar@yahoo.com, 619-795-0122

 

Summary of Skills

 

¤ Editing on Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier, Media 100, Lightworks, Sony Vegas, Virtual Dub.
      Own system with Final Cut Pro, Motion, Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, QuickTime
      & Batch Compressor plug-ins, Nattress Film Effects, DVD Studio Pro, Toast, etc.

¤ DVD authoring, design and production (DVD Studio Pro).

¤ Video compression (MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, Sorensen, Cinepak, etc)

¤ Producing (television, documentary, corporate video, web video, narrative/ fiction)

¤ Cinematography and videography (digital video, 16 mm)

¤ Directing (fiction/ narrative, documentaries, web video)

¤ Screen-writing (feature and short fiction, documentaries, narration)

¤ Script supervision and continuity

¤ Writing (investigative articles, web content, short stories, poetry)

¤ Research

 

Organized, detail-oriented, good at creative problem-solving, work well in groups, under pressure and on tight deadlines,
have worked with corporate groups, non-profits and film crews from India, Germany, Mexico and the U.S.

 

Education

 

2004  M.A. Television, Film and New Media, San Diego State University, CA, USA

1995  M.A. First Class (English Literature), University of Bombay, India

1992  B.A. First Class (English Literature), Elphinstone College, Bombay, India

 

Honors

 

 

Filmography and Screenings

 
  1. Banana Republic (Documentary)
      Position: Director-videographer-editor
       ¤ San Diego Asian Film Festival 2008

  2. It'd never Happen to me (docudrama/ 28:30 min/ DV-NTSC/ USA 2007)
  3.  

Position: Editor

  ¤ Television broadcast CTN San Diego 2007.
  ¤ San Diego Fair digital arts exhibition, 2nd place award, professional educational video category.
  ¤ 2008 National Mature Media Awards, 3rd place award, educational/ training video category.

  

  1. Algorithms (narrative trilogy/ 21 min/ DV-NTSC/ USA 2007)

Position: Writer-director-editor

¤     San Diego Asian Film Festival 2007

¤     Festival International du Film Independent 2007, Brussels, Belgium

¤     Reelworld Film Festival 2008, Toronto, Canada

  1. A Pyramid of Women (documentary/ 20 min/ DV-PAL/ India-USA 2003)

Position: Writer-Director-Editor-Additional Cinematographer.

           KCSM (PBS)

           KRCB (PBS)

    

  1. Spinning Wheels (narrative/ 14:25 min/ 35 mm/ USA 2002)

Position: Writer-Director-Editor

¤ Festival International du Film Independant (Brussels, Belgium)

¤ San Diego Film CriticsÕ SocietyÕs FilmSchool Confidential

 
  1. Jailhouse Stock (narrative/ 8 min/ 16 mm/ USA 2001)

Position: Writer-Director

¤ BestFest 2002 San Diego, Comedy 2nd place award.

 

  1. Poor Man (narrative/ 5 min/ 16 mm B&W/ USA 2000)

Position: Co-Director/ Co-Editor/ Co-Cinematographer

¤ Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinamericano (Havana, Cuba)

¤ BestFest 2001 San Diego, Comedy 1st place award.

 
  1. Teachscape educational training film (doc/ 20 min/ DV-NTSC/ USA 2002)

                  Position: Field Producer/ Interviewer/ Additional Cinematographer

 
  1. The Aliens (doc/ 8 min/ DV-NTSC/ USA 2001)
Position: Director/ Editor/ Cinematographer
 

  1. The Ladies Special of Bombay (doc/ 20 min/ DV/ Germany-India 1999)

Position: Assistant Director/ Field Producer

¤ TV Broadcast: NDR Hamburg, Germany

¤ Mumbai International Film Festival
 
  1. Avehi: empowering people through media (doc/ 30 min/ DV/ India 1997)

Position: Assistant Director/ Field Producer/ Assistant Editor

¤ World Health Organization seminar on health education.

Experience

2008:                   Editor-DVD author, Epic Global Media, multiple projects in travel, tourism, corporate video.

 

                           Director-cinematographer-editor, documentary on Asian-American voting trends,

                           commissioned by San Diego Asian Film Foundation.

 

                           Editor, West Coast Projections, videos for the Entrepreneur of the Year Awards ceremonies,

                            Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County.

                           Editor, technical training video, Staylor-Made Communications.
  

2007:                   Editor, It'd Never happen to Me, docudrama by the Casa Foundation, broadcast on CTN San Diego

 

                           Editor, The Changing Faces of AIDS, CMEPro medical research video.

 

                           Editor, Research Society on Alcoholism 16-part video lecture series.

 

2006:                   1st Assistant Director, Uncharted, feature film produced by D Street Films, Los Angeles,

                            shot in Mexico and the USA.

 

               Writer-director-editor, Algorithms, short fiction film trilogy.
 
2005:                   Editor, Never Enough, Tensor Productions feature film, Oakland, CA.

 
                           Editor, opening trailer for Futurefemme film festival, held by the San Francisco/ LA
                            women filmmakers' organization Cinefemme.

 

                           Editor, PBS TV promo for A Pyramid of Women.

 

2005-2007:           Programmer, Cinefemme film festivals and screenings, San Francisco and San Diego.

                                                     

2004:                   Producer-cinematographer-editor, Setting out on Journeys of Change, Waitt Family Foundation documentary

                            about the making of PBS documentary Journeys of Change.

                            Also shot and edited web video updates on project and on the Waitt Foundation.

 

2003- 2004:          Graduate Assistant aiding professors in editing, cinematography, television, sound and other film classes.


2000- 2002:          Teaching Associate at San Diego State University, teaching Communication 103, public speaking and speech writing.

                                                                                         

2002:                   Field Producer-Interviewer, educational training documentary, Teachscape of New York City.

 

                           Assistant Producer, SDSU Production Center documentary about the San Diego Sailing Foundation.

 

2001:                   Assistant Director-interviewer, SDSU Production Center documentary about the historic Billy and Chester murder case, on which

                           Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy" was based.

 

2000:                   Writer of web-based training programs for U.S. corporations, Tata Interactive Systems.

 

1999:                   Floor manager/ Field producer, The Ladies' Special of Bombay, Mediopolis Berlin documentary broadcast on German television.

 

1998-1999:           Travel and research for articles about the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a mineworkers' movement in central India.

 

1997-1998:           Lecturer in communication skills, Bombay Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

 

1996-1997:           Writer, Researcher, Assistant Director, Assistant Editor on multiple documentary films, Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai.

 

1995-1996:           Writer-Research Analyst, contributing monthly articles on the private sector in the Indian economy, Value Added News Service, Mumbai.

 

1996-2000:           Editorial board member, The Voice Of People Awakening, (monthly magazine) and writer of articles on society,
                           politics, international issues and history, poetry and short stories.

 

1995:                   Panelist on Bindaas Bol (Speak Out), a TV talk show for youth. Invited as editor of the youth magazine Challenge to speak about the need for

                           more intellectual freedom on campuses.  Screened several times on the Sony Entertainment Television channel, India, 1996.

 

1992-1995:           Editor, Challenge, a youth magazine set up as a forum for questioning and critical thinking. Organized and conducted seminars,
                           workshops, trips and discussions as part of this work.

 

1994:                   Documentary researcher-writer, Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai.

 

1993:                    Canvasser, Greenpeace, San Diego, California.