K. Rajagopal is a Singaporean film director and screenwriter. He co-wrote and directed the social drama film ''
A Yellow Bird
''A Yellow Bird'' is a 2016 Singaporean-French drama film directed and co-written by K. Rajagopal and starring Sivakumar Palakrishnan, Huang Lu, and Seema Biswas. It was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
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'', which was selected to be screened in the
Critics' Week
Critics' Week (), until 2008 called International Critics' Week ('), is a parallel section to the Cannes Film Festival organized by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics.
History
Critics' week was created in 1962, after the French Syndicate of ...
section at the
2016 Cannes Film Festival
The 69th Cannes Film Festival took place from 11 to 22 May 2016. Australian filmmaker George Miller (filmmaker), George Miller was the president of the jury for the main competition. French actor Laurent Lafitte was the host for the opening and ...
.
Before he found filmmaking, he worked in the hotel industry and was also teaching in a school for mentally-challenged people. His entry into filmmaking is a direct result of being a "frustrated actor" in the theatre world who was unable to get lead roles as a result of being a minority race in Singapore.
Besides filmmaking, he has also worked onstage and collaborated with many notable theatre directors on projects such as ''
Medea
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'', ''
Mother Courage
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'', and ''
Beauty World''. He performed as
King Lear
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in The King Lear Project at the
Kunstenfestivaldesarts
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in
Brussels
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, and at the
Singapore Arts Festival
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in 2008, after an 11-year hiatus. In 2009, he played Faust in ''Film Faust'' for the Esplanade Presents Series.
Filmography
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Singaporean film directors
Singaporean screenwriters