Director/Camera/Editor - Taking the Lead (2015)

Rani Khanna

Filmmaker - Director mob: [phone]

email: [e-mail]

address: 18 Holland Road, London NW10 5AU, UK

web: www.youandeyefilms.com

 

 

Rani Khanna is a highly versatile & multicultural independent filmmaker with 17 years of experience making documentaries and working freelance for a variety of organisations as well as teaching video production in Higher Education & Further Education. Her work is varied in themes, styles & approaches, demonstrating a creative cultural sensitivity and the ability to work in teams as well as a self-shooter.

 

Filmography

Director/Camera/Editor - Taking the Lead (2015)

Short video for the NHS, about young people with psychosis expressing themselves through art.

 

Director/Camera/ – Campaign against Climate Change (2014)

Interviewing inspirational people across the UK who are addressing climate change in their communities.

Director/Camera/Editor – Media Diversity Institute 20^th anniversary (2014)

Short celebrating MDI 20^th anniversary

 

Director/Camera/Editor - CricCrac (2013)

Promo forStoryTelling Festival.

 

Editor – Wateraid (2013)

Promotional video: WaterAid volunteers in schools.

 

Director/Camera/Editor – Special Yoga Centre (2013)

Fund raising yoga promo for children with disabilities.

Director/ Camera/Editor – Confident Birth (2013)

Conference/workshop talks by author Susanna Heli.

Director/Camera/Writer – Oh My Dog!

Work in progress. Feature documentary.

Director/Camera/Editor – Young Carers Project, CrossRoads (2012)

Video about young carers using crosroads services.

Director/Camera/Editor - SPID Theatre (2012)

Video content for theatre production “The Paserby”.

 

Camera/Co-producer - Whitehorse Films Ltd (2012)

Painting the sky - trailer

Director/Camera – Kolkata Books – Aljazeera UK (2011)

Documentary about the book market & globalisation in Kolkata, India. Produced by ORTV.

 

Producer/Director/Camera/Editor – The Media Diversity Institute (2010)

Short videos about Moroccan Media Executives visiting London and studying Diversity in British Media, at Channel 4, BBC Diversity Department and Arabic Service and The Guardian.

 

Director/Camera – Mad For Dance Series, Channel Five (2009)

A short portrait of a woman with bipolar disorder who uses dance to cope with her mental illness.

 

Producer/Director/Camera/Editor – Dream Surfing (2009)

Artist Residency: creating a 15 mins film about the Art & Permaculture community in Sapney, South India. Screened at Spirit Enlightened Festival @ Culture Unplugged.

 

Director/ Producer/ Camera/Editor – Barking Mad! (2008)

Documentary about people and their dogs in New York City, focusing on the extremes people go to for their canine friends, commissioned by Current TV.

Director/ Producer/Camera/Editing - Chip Odina & Muse, Channel 4’s 4Talent (2007)

5 mins up-beat profile on Nigerian fashion designer Chip Odina.

 

Director/Camera - Wandering With My Shadow(2007)

One take filmed with a mobile phone. Part of a series exploring Light & Shadow. Screened at Holmfirth Film Festival, Multi Media Indicial, Belem, Brazil, Projectoroom, London, The Canal Museum London, International Mobile Innovation Festival, New Zealand.

 

Director/Camera – Reflections(2007)

Experimental short contemplating water. Screened at: 5th International Film Festival on Water, Bangalore India 2010, The Canal Museum, London 2010.

 

Director/Camera - Music by…Gabriel Yared, Mezzo TV, France, distributor: Digital Classics (2005)

52 mins documentary portraying the life and work of Oscar winner film composer Gabriel Yared. Following him in his collaboration with Anthony Minghella for the score of Cold Mountain at Abbey Road Sudios & giving a concert in Rio de Janeiro. Released on DVD & selected as DVD Choice in Nov 2007’s BBC Music Magazine with a 5 star rating. Screened at international film festivals & international broadcast.

Freelance Work

Employed to film and make videos for a variety of organisations, charities and NGO’s: The Media Diversity Institute, Amnesty International, the NHS, Praxis, CrossRoads, The Video College, Dost, VODI, Agit8Films, Open Rights Group, Central Foundation Girls' School…

Teaching Employment

Tutor and lecturer on various video workshops and documentary courses for adults and young people at:

The American Intercontinental University, Havering College of Further & Higher Education, Cavendish College, The Film & Video Workshop, London Weekend Television, Central & St Martin's School of Design, Creative Partnership, West Thames College, Positive Strides, Polkadots on raindrops, Moti Roti & Ideas Club.

 

Education

- Screenwriting, Birkbeck College, London (1995-96)

Part-time course screenwriting for short films.

- BA (Hons) Film & Video, London College of Communication, University of the Arts (1992-95)

Major in Directing Documentary. 2:1

- Diploma Foundation Arts, City Lit, London (1984-85)

Photography, History of Art, Fine Art.

- Arts Plastiques, Sorbonne, Paris.(1983-84)

History and Analysis of Cinema, Early Buddhist Art in India, Psychoanalysis & Art.

 

 

You can find some of my work on my website and equally my showreel:

http://www.youandeyefilms.com

 

I don't have all the health related films I have made online but here are the links for those that are online:

Leona Alone - (Blood Matters, Channel 4) is about raising awareness around a blood disease - sickle cell disease - to raise awareness & encourage the public to donate blood.

http://www.youandeyefilms.com/leona-alone.html

 

Nabina - (Mad For Dance series - Channel Five) is about a young woman who suffers from bipolar disorder and uses dance to help her recover.

http://www.youandeyefilms.com/mad-for-dance.html

 

Sunny Salutations - (Special Yoga Centre, London) is about young children with disabilities and learning difficulties practicing yoga to fund-raise for the Special Yoga Centre.

http://www.youandeyefilms.com/sunny-salutations.html

 

 

I am currently making a film for the NHS doctors & staff, to help them understand what it is like for young people with psychosis to be using the mental health service in Haringey.

 

In 2000, I worked over a year with the midwifery department of the University of Central England and a group of parents who had children born with a disability. The aim of the film was to train medical staff on how to break the news of a child born with a disability to his/her parents. The film was distributed by SCOPE.

 

I feel that I very much understand what is needed in a film to move an audience and make them think and rethink about the issues involved. My career as a filmmaker and teacher has provided me with the skills and experience to develop the stories and find the best possible ways of telling them through film and for them to communicate powerfully with the targeted audiences.

 

 

Rani Khanna

Filmmaker - Director mob: [phone]

email: [e-mail]

address: 18 Holland Road, London NW10 5AU, UK

web: www.youandeyefilms.com

 

 

Rani Khanna is a highly versatile & multicultural independent filmmaker with 17 years of experience making documentaries and working freelance for a variety of organisations as well as teaching video production in Higher Education & Further Education. Her work is varied in themes, styles & approaches, demonstrating a creative cultural sensitivity and the ability to work in teams as well as a self-shooter.

 

Filmography

Director/Camera/Editor - Taking the Lead (2015)

Short video for the NHS, about young people with psychosis expressing themselves through art.