Chalam Bennurakar
Directing
Died: May 7, 2017
Departments: Directing, Crew
Chalam Bennurakar was a college dropout and worked as a signboard painter for sometime before he became part of CIEDS Collective and Vimochana in Bangalore. As part of CIEDS Collective, he had initiated Janamadhyam, a screening network and production infrastructure for grass root action which he continued informally even after he left the Collective through Touring Talkies. He contributed to the film society movement in Bangalore through the Bangalore Film Society and Odessa in Kerala by creating a space for young filmmakers to showcase their works. He conceived of Sakshi in 1998, a first-of-i…
