Biju Viswanath


Biju Viswanath is an international film director, director of photography and screenwriter.
His movies have been screened throughout the world. Viswanath has directed movies in English, Tamil, Italian, Irish, Swahili, Japanese, and Indian languages. His credits span multiple genres: thrillers, mystery, horror, romance and critically acclaimed dramas.

Career

Viswanath's directorial debut A Voyage is based on the works of famous Indian writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair, winner of highest literary award in India Jnanpith. The film won the Gold Medal for Best Short Film in India and Honorable Mention in Zanzibar International Film Festival.
His international English feature film Déjàvu with British actors premiered at the 54th Locarno International Film Festival.
Only two other Indian films have made it to Locarno in its 54-year history, the other being the Oscar-nominated Hindi film Lagaan.
Dejavu was screened in 24 international film festivals.
His Urdu film Parwaaz won Special Prize in Patras Film Festival.
Viswanath won two awards for Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay in New York Independent Film Festival for his feature film Marathon based on the true story of Pulitzer Prize winning American poet William Morris Meredith, Jr.
Another Feature film "Viola" won Golden palm in the Mexico International Film festival
Swahili short film "The Shadow Tree" won the Special Award in Skepto Film Festival in Italy, Signis Award and Best short Film Award in 2014 at Zanzibar Film Festival,
and Special Mention award at the 4th Filmambiente international festival Brazil.
Biju Viswanath's Tamil Feature film "Orange Mittai" is produced and co written by the famous Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi
Biju's Canadian movie "Living is Easy" Received Gold award in Mindfield Film Festival Albuquerque 2019. Best narrative short in Pinnacle Film Awards 2019,

Filmography

Selected filmography
YearFilmLanguageNotes
1995Peter ScottMalayalam-
1998A Voyage
2000O. Henry StoriesMalayalam
2001DejavuEnglish
2003Music Videos MTVHindi
2004Second ComingEnglish
2005Zodiac TalesEnglish
2006Sign of FourEnglish
2006Grand FestivalHindi
English
2007LorgIrish
2008ParwaazUrdu
2008RianIrish
2009OshizemiJapanese
2010MarathonEnglish
2011ViolaEnglish
2012The NailEnglish
2013MafiosiItalian
2013Shadow TreeSwahili
2014Thief and Wind chimeTamil
2015Orange MittaiTamil
2017Living is EasyEnglish
2018Silent TimesEnglish
2019Chennai Palani MarsTamil

Film festivals/awards