Born in Gujarat, India, Ishu Patel is an internationally acclaimed film director, animator the educator. His films are screened in international film festivals, and have received worldwide theatrical and television distribution as animated shorts. His many International awards include two Oscar Nominations, the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, Grand Prix at Annecy, Grand Prix at Montreal World Film Festival and the British Academy Award.
Mr. Patel, formerly a tenured Professor at the School of Cinema and Television, Division of Animation and Digital Arts, University of Southern California. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences.
For twenty five years, he has been one of the National Film Board of Canada’s animation and director/producer. He co-produced animation with NHK of Japan and Channel Four of Britain.
Ishu has received his bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Baroda. At the National Institute of Design he did his graduate studies in visual communication, which included studies in graphic design, typography, photography, exhibition design and film. A Ford Foundation Grant made possible his Advanced Graphic Design studies at Allegemine Gewerbschule, Basel, Switzerland. He served as Head of Visual Communications Department at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. A Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship brought him to study and develop animation filmmaking at the National Board of Canada.
Ishu has conducted his popular Animation Workshops with the Inuit artists of Cape Dorset in the High Arctic and students in Ghana, Yugoslavia, India, Korea and USA.
 

All of these films are produced by National Film Board of Canada