Modi
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Glendale USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Modi produced & directed the Billboard chart topping home video "Vieuphoria" for Virgin Records recording artist The Smashing Pumpkins. She also directed the award winning home video "You Saw Me Up There" featuring Henry Rollins for Dreamworks SKG Records. Modi was also the senior documentary director of the live web cast of woodstock.com. Modi has successfully directed a multitude of noted rockumentaries and music videos for major recording artists including Iggy Pop, Smashing Pumpkins, L7, Keith Richards, and Jane's Addiction. Modi has also served as Director for the popular television show, "ABC In Concert," where she was responsible for directing numerous multi-camera live performances and interviews with name acts such as Prince, Stone Temple Pilots, and "90210’s" Vanessa Marcil. Her comedy short film, "Rosa Mi Amor" has won best short at eight different film/video festivals including The New Orleans Film & Video Fest, The Video Shorts Fest in Seattle, The New Haven Film Fest, The Tortured Artist Film Fest in WA, The New York Underground Film Festival, The San Jose Film Fest & The Hollywood Renaissance Film Fest. She directed the highly acclaimed ground breaking Jane’s Addiction music video "Mountain Song". And she also produced and directed the Henry Rollins spoken word performance video "Talking From The Box". It was chosen to represent the best of the A.F.I. Video/Film Festival and was exhibited at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It has been screened at The Dallas Museum of Art, The Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, The New Orleans Film Fest, The N.Y. Underground Film Fest, as well as the Chicago Underground Film Fest. Filmography/Awards Info: "Rosa Mi Amor" is a short comedy film, which stars Manny Chevrolet as a man mourning for a dead wife he never had. Directed by Los Angeles filmmaker Modi whose work has been described as "a Warhol factory director on loan to Hal Roach studios. Classically styled shorts with a subversive edge" "Rosa" has won the grand prize at the '99 Berkeley Film & Video Festival Festival. "Rosa" has won the grand prize at the '94 Seattle Lucky Charms Film Festival. "Rosa" has won first place at the following Film & Video festivals: * The '98 Hollywood Renaissance Film Festival * The '97 Tortured Artist Festival in Tacoma, WA. * '97 Film Festival New Haven The '95 Video Shorts 14 in Seattle, WA. * The '95 5th Annual San Jose Visual Arts Festival * The '94 New York Underground Film Festival * The '93 New Orleans Film Festival "Rosa" was voted top ten audience Choice at the '99 Freaky Film Festival in Urbana, IL "Rosa" has won a Certificate of Merit at the following festivals: '94 Chicago Intercom Festival, The '94 Long Island Film & Video Festival, '93 Central Florida Festival and Special Mention @ The Mandalay Las Colinas Festival of Arts. "Rosa" has screened at the following festivals: The Mediopolis Videofest in Berlin, Germany. The 4th Mondial Video in Bruxelles, Belgique. The 28th Annual New York Expo., The 42nd Columbus International Film & Video Fest, The Chicago Underground Film Fest, The 2nd Annual Social Outcast Film & Video Fest at The Image Film & Video Center in Atlanta, Georgia., The Artswatch in Louisville, KY., The Interfilm Fest in Berlin, Germany, The Utah Film & Video Fest, The Cacophony Drive-In Movie Short Film & Video in San Francisco, CA. The Palm Springs International Short Film Fest, The Hollywood Underground Film Fest, & Trimmer's Rock World Film & Video Fest in Newport, PA., Euro Underground in Berlin, Germany, Krakow, Poland & Sofia, Bulgaria, ICA London, England, Independent Exposure in Seattle, WA, MVPA First Annual Directors Cut Festival in Hollywood, CA, Cinema Texas in Fort Worth, Antimatter in Victoria BC Canada, MicroCine Festival in Baltimore, MD, Tahoe Film Fest, Cucalorus Film Fest in Wilmington, North Carolina, Dances With Films in Hollywood, CA. Modivation Film Festival Awards and Screenings • Henry Rollins "You Saw Me Up There" 8o min. Spoken Word Concert Dreamworks SKG Records New Orleans Film & Video Festival "Lumiere Award" 1999 The Gold Award WorldFest Houston 1999 Certificate of Merit at the 6th Annual Berkeley Film & Video Festival 1999 Screened Central Florida Film & Video Festival 2000 • Henry Rollins "Talking From the Box" 60 min. Spoken Word Concert Finalist Award New York Festival 1993 Screened at Best of AFI Video Festival at The Kennedy Center Washington, DC, The New Orleans Film & Video Festival, The New York Underground Film Festival, and The Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco • Rollins Band "Get Some Go Again" DreamWorks SKG Records - Music Video Best Digital Music Video Media Masters Award 2000 from Digital Video Magazine • "Youth Wants You To Know" Anti-Hand Gun Campaign The California Wellness Foundation Gold Award Aurora Film &Video Competition 1998 Bronze Statuette Telly Awards 1997 1st Place San Jose Film & Video Commission, Joey Awards 1996 The New York Festival Finalist Award 1996 The Charleston International Film Festival Finalist Award 1996 Honorable Mention The Film Council of Greater Columbus 1997 • "Created Equal" Cheryl Summerville Story documentary short for The ACLU 1st Place Vermont International Film Festival Justice & Human Rights 1997 Silver Plaque Intercom Cinema Chicago Film Festival 1997 Certificate of Merit @ The 6th Berkeley Film & Video Festival 1999 Screened at Lesben Film Festival Berlin, Germany 1997 • "Pump With A Chump" Short comedy film starring Henry Rollins & Manny Chevrolet Lagniappe Award New Orleans Film & Video Festival • "Woodstock Revisited" Short comedy film Lagniappe Award New Orleans Film & Video Festival • Buck Cherry "For The Movies" Music Video Dreamworks SKG Records Bronze Award The Telly Awards 2000 Bronze Award WorldFest Flagstaff, AZ 1999 • L7 "Pretend Were Dead" Music Video Warner Bros. Records Sliver Plaque Chicago International Film Festival 1992 Finalist New York Festivals 1993 This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
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