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Nadeem Uddin

Hollywood/Seattle

Filmmaker

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Tags: political/social issue documentaries  

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Title/Occupation:  Cinematographer 

Gender: Male

Race: Asian/Pacific Islander

Citizenship: USA

Languages Spoken: Hindi,Urdu,English

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I look forward to meeting other filmmakers in LA who are interested in India and South Asia. I have over 10 years experience in filming documentaries in India.

Biography: 

Born in Bhopal, India, Nadeem started seeking the ultimate ways to present his experiences in both East and West through his films on diverse subjects. He continues to illuminate through his art of filmmaking, spirituality and our sacred environment and history which can easily be forgotten.

His passionate work on the subject of the long term effects of the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak disaster in Bhopal, India, landed him a place as one of the producers of Bhopal: The Search for Justice [2004], with the participation of NFB for the CBC’s “The Nature of Things” and Société Radio Canada’s “Decouverte.” Selected for Amnesty International Festivals in London, New York and Los Angeles and the Festival Internacional de Cinema e Video Ambiental [FICA] in Goìa, Brazil where it won the 2005 Wolf Jesco von Puttkamer Award for Best Medium Length documentary. Broadcasted on the Sundance Channel in 2005-06.

Uddin’s other recent film “Kumbh Mela: Songs of the River” is a celebration of spiritual diversity in mankind coming together for one common purpose. Screened at Harvard Divinity School, broadcast over Oasis-TV satellite network; and has been on circulation through Stephen Simon’s Spiritual Cinema Circles in April, 2006. His other films are Varanasi: Sacred Fire, and Land of positive Void. His upcoming release is about Spanish Civil War Veteran Abe Osheroff.

Nadeem’s other work in progress is about Seattle artist Charles Krafft who calls himself the “oldest promising young artist in America,” but he is known among his avid collectors and fans around the world as “ Provocative and veracious with his particular eye on history.” After establishing himself from the 1960s-1980s as a star of the Northwest Mystic School of painting and poetry, Krafft gave up painting in the 1990s in response to the brutal Balkan War. He learned to cast and paint porcelain Delftware, and produced provocative sculptures of delicately-painted plates commemorating natural and technological disasters or as Charlie calls it “ Disasterware.”

Inspired by his trip to Sarajevo in the midst of the Balkan War, Charles created a series of porcelain mimicking the various weapons of war in his infamous “ Porcelain War Museum Project.”

He later came up with the idea of adding human bone ash to his slip, ‘Spone’. He dubbed unclaimed “cremains” and he has since created memorials provided by the very relatives of those deceased.
The camera lens is cocked towards his startling mix of basement humor, spiritual sarcasm and fearless travel through the dark undercurrents of human consciousness. Nadeem traveled with Charles Krafft in India in 2001.

Uddin’s passion is to create a bridge between his values in both India and America, her continuous to foster a great understanding about issues like environment cultural preservation and which is timely and necessary.