Karan Bali graduated from the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune, with a specialization in Film Direction in 1993. He has been making documentaries primarily, and also been the first Assistant Director on two feature films.

Mentor creds:

Since 2010, Karan has been teaching Film Appreciation and Filmmaking. He is also the Co-founder and Content-in-charge of Upperstall.com, an analytical portal on the cinema of the sub-continent. An American in Madras (2013), his first feature-length documentary, has been screened world over at various film festivals and was streaming on Netflix from 2017-2019. Currently, he is completing another feature-length documentary on the confluence between politics and cinema in Tamil Nadu, South Indian – Naan Aanayittaal. Karan’s love for cinema is infectious, and he hopes to make all his students fall in love with it.

Courses:

Karan’s love for writing will be translated into his two classes – Script Writing – Introduction and Script Writing – Full.