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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Operation Coffee
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Kuebiko
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The Edge
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PLUCK TRICK
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I'm Not a Hunger Artist
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BLINKING CURSOR
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Tarot
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Walk on Walk of Fame
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Sueños Americanos
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The Big One
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Dark Mind
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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)
Full Sail University
(2017-2018)
Los Angeles City College
(2017-2018)