Bio
Prashant Pandit is an independent filmmaker based out of Mysore / Bengaluru. He has been freelancing as a writer, director, editor and digital post-production workflow consultant for more than a decade now.
He has written and directed a non-fiction, trilingual period film on the life and works of Ferdinand Kittel, the German missionary who created the much celebrated Kannada-English dictionary. He has edited several feature length fiction, non-fiction and short films, including “Paddayi”, a Tulu language film which won a National Award in 2018. He has also directed and commissioned films for institutions and corporate clients.
Pandit has been actively associated with the film society movements of Bengaluru, including Suchitra Film Society and LACE Films. He has collaborated with the Max Mueller Bhavan and the Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFES) in festival organizing. He is also in the editorial team of BIFFES. He wrote a fortnightly column on world cinema in Vijaya Karnataka, a leading Kannada daily.
Pandit revived the 150-year-old Kannada typeface used in the erstwhile BASEL mission printing press in Mangalore, named it after Ferdinand Kittel (https://kittel.sanchaya.net/), and released it as an open source font.