Siva Kumar Kondaveeti

Director, Producer at SKumars Media Works
Director, Editor, Filmmaker, It Tech, Videographer, Assistant Editor, Audio Post-Production, Cinematographer, Colorist, Digital Imaging Technician, Production Assistant and Transmedia Producer

Los Angeles, California

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About Siva

Siva Kumar Kondaveeti is an award-winning director/producer known for Walk on Walk of Fame (2016), TAROT (2017), Pluck Trick (2017) and Kuebiko (2018). He produced several short films with budgets ranging 0 to $20,000. His Short documentary about celebrity impersonators "Walk on WALK OF FAME" won the Best short documentary award in Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival. His other experimental short film, "Pluck Trick," won the best short film award in The Orlando Edge Film Festival and Avalonia International Film Festival. A short documentary that he produced, "Sueños Americanos" won the Humanitarian Award in The Accolade Global Film Competition, La Jolla, CA.

He earned his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Film Production from Full Sail University, Florida where he learned sound mixing from Bill W. Benton, who won the best sound mixing Academy Award for Dances with Wolves (1990). He also earned his Cinema Production Certificate from Los Angeles City College and attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for Film Direction. Before coming to the USA, he assisted Ram Gopal Varma (RGV), one of the most popular directors in Bollywood, in the direction department for six feature films. During the time he was assisting RGV, he got this opportunity to closely collaborate with some A-Listed Bollywood actors, such as Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Nana Patekar, Manisha Koirala and others. He moved to Los Angeles and currently working on Pre-Production of his upcoming debut feature film "SMILE MAN".

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Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 7"

Weight:
140

Body type:
Athletic

Hair color:
Black

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Indian/South Asian

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Credits

Operation Coffee (2018)
Film (Short and Comedy) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kuebiko (2018)
Film (Short and Drama) Director
The Edge (2017)
Film (Short) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
PLUCK TRICK (2017)
Film (Short and Comedy) Director
I'm Not a Hunger Artist (2017)
Film (Short and Drama) Director
BLINKING CURSOR (2017)
Film (Short and Drama) Director
Tarot (2017)
Film (Short and Horror) Director
Walk on Walk of Fame (2016)
Film (Documentary) Director
Sueños Americanos (2016)
Film (Documentary and Short) Producer
The Big One (2016)
Film (Short and Horror) Producer
Trashed (2016)
Film (Short and Drama) Producer
Dark Mind (2015)
Film (Short and Thriller) Director
CHASE (2014)
Film (Short and Crime) Director
Satya 2 (2013)
Film (Action, Crime and Drama) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Psycho (2013)
Film (Thriller) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
The Attacks of 26/11 (2013)
Film (Action, Biography, Crime, Drama and 1 More) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
LACC Swap Meet (2013)
Film (Documentary and Short) Director
Bhoot Returns (2012)
Film (Horror, Mystery and Thriller) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Department (2012)
Film (Action, Crime and Thriller) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Not a Love Story (2011)
Film (Crime, Drama and Thriller) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Rann (2010)
Film (Drama, Mystery and Thriller) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
340 (2009)
Film (Thriller) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Awards

Best Direction Award Winner in The Buddha International Film Festival for Kuebiko (Short Film)
(2018)
Best Short Film Under One Minute winner in The Orlando Edge Film Festival for Pluck Trick (Short Fi)
(2017)
Best Short Award Winner in Avalonia Festival for Pluck Trick (Short)
(2017)
Best Short Film Winner in Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival for I'm Not a Hunger Artis
(2017)
Best Horror Short Film award in Wildcat Spirit Film Festival for TAROT (Short)
(2017)
Best Short Documentary award in Wildcat Spirit Film Festival for Walk on WALK OF FAME (Documentary)
(2016)
Humanitarian Award, Accolade Global Film Competition for Sueños Americanos (Short)
(2016)