Director Biography - Ninaad Kulkarni

Ninaad is a filmmaker from Mumbai, India, a semi finalist in the 44th Student Academy Awards for his film 'KCLOC', made during his MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts, New York. In 2015, he graduated from the prestigious National Institute of Design in India, where he majored in Animation Film Production. He has worked in the creative multimedia industry handling projects in USA, Germany, Switzerland, and India. He has won awards in France, Switzerland, USA, Venezuela, Poland, and India for his excellence in film and animation. His animated documentary 'KCLOC' has received wide spread recognition from 32 film festivals across the globe.

Ninaad believes that design and filmmaking are important forms of expression, and if we put our own cultural stories into our work, we will make a difference by bringing people together.

"Even a broken clock is right twice in a day", a quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach stood as a strong inspiration for the young filmmaker Ninaad Kulkarni, who spent 8 months exploring and developing a 3 minute animated documentary film called 'KCLOC'. Ninaad conducted over 60 interviews in New York and Mumbai with individuals from different walks of life to understand their perceptions of time. In this documentary, that features 10 selected interviews, Ninaad gathers these complex ideas to create a unique cinematic experience which leaves the audience questioning their own ideas of time. Time can be haunting, fleeting, limiting or liberating. It is both relative and cruel. Time conditions us, keeps us in motion and is a gauge of our mortality. But, what does time mean to you?

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