Bead Game

ISHU PATEL is an acclaimed animation film director, animator and educator whose films have received theatrical and television distribution worldwide. His many international awards include two Oscar Nominations, the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the British Academy Award, and the Grand Prix at both Annecy and the Montreal World Film Festival.

Born in Gujarat, India, Ishu Patel graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, Baroda and completed his graduate studies in Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and advanced Graphic Design at Allegemeine Gewerbschule in Basel, Switzerland. A Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship brought him to the National Film Board of Canada.

Under the NFB banner, developing his own animation techniques Ishu Patel produced and directed numerous award-winning films such as The Bead Game, Afterlife, Top Priority, Divine Fate and Paradise.

In addition to his films for the NFB, Ishu Patel has co-produced animation with NHK of Japan and Channel Four of Britain, and contributed numerous French-language segments to “Sesame Street” for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Formerly a tenured professor at the School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, he is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Ishu Patel presently has his studio, Image par Image, in Canada where he continues to produce animation projects compatible with his styles and techniques. Recently completed projects include four TV spots for Nippon Oil of Japan (ENEOS), and a 60 second TV spot, “Moondust”, for the United Airlines Beijing Olympic campaign, “It’s Time to Fly”.

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