Directing the Millions. | Uday Shankar Pani | TEDxICT Mumbai

Indian filmmaker Uday Shankar Pani discusses the challenge of directing at scale, when a creative canvas grows to thousands of people or a message must be reduced to one simple visual. He speaks from his own background in Indian cinema, including his graduation from the Film and Television Institute of India in 1974 and his work as an assistant director on Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. The talk was given at an independently organized TEDx event in Mumbai.

• Directing large casts and scaled-up creative projects
• Distilling a message into a single, simple visual
• Speaker's background as an Indian film maker and FTII graduate
• Given at an independently organized TEDx event in Mumbai

"We live in a world obsessed with neat, predictable formulas for success. But what happens when your canvas scales to thousands of people, or your entire message must be distilled into a single, unforgettably simple visual? Uday Shankar Pani is an Indian film maker. He graduated in 1974 from the Film and Television Institute of India. He was an assistant director in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. A 1974 documentary on the National Film Archive of India made by him was screened on that organization's 52nd anniversary. In 2016, he was selected as one of thirteen jurors for that year's International Film Festival of India. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx