About Rattapallax
Rattapallax, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization focused on documentary films, poetry, and transmedia storytelling. Rattapallax is the producer of the augmented reality comic book, Priya’s Shakti comic book series which received the Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund from the Ford Foundation and supported by the World Bank, and showcased at 2016 New York Film Festival. For creating India’s first female superhero who is a rape survivor, the project was named a “gender equality champion” by UN Women. The series has over 26 million readers and over 800 news stories.
Rattapallax produced The Russian Woodpecker, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and nominated or won at Independent Spirit Awards, International Documentary Association, Cinema Eye Honors, Biografilm Festival, Greenwich Film Festival, Sheffield International Documentary Festival, and many others. The film was purchased by Amazon and shown in commercial theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. Rattapallax’s most recent film, The Karma Killings, about the Nithari serial killings in Noida was out exclusively on Netflix worldwide. The Karma Killings is hailed as “true crime watershed moment” in India (Arré). Rattapallax has set up and run dozens of documentary, comic book, and transmedia workshops in Kabul, Kathmandu, Mumbai, New York City, Bengaluru, São Paulo, Ahmedabad, Beijing, San Francisco, Chennai, Brisbane, and many other cities.
FILMMAKER MAGAZINE: Power to the Priya: Ram Devineni on his Augmented Reality Comic Book Series
CBC RADIO–Q SHOW: Interview with Ram Devineni, co-creator of Priya’s Shakti.
FAST COMPANY: Acid Attacks And Augmented Reality: How Priya’s Mirror Is Using Tech To Change India
THE NATIONAL: Priya’s Mirror highlights issues of gender inequality and violence against women
We organized augmented reality exhibitions at New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center (USA), Sheffield Film Festival (UK), Tribeca Film Festival (USA), PEN World Voices Festival (USA), La città Incanta (Italy), Geneva International Film Festival (Switzerland), One World Festival (CZ Rep.), NINA Beta Version Festival (Poland), City Lore Gallery (USA), ARTBO (Colombia), Institute for Creative Technologies at UCLA (USA), FilmGate (USA), Copenhagen Documentary Festival (Denmark), Myriad Festival (Australia), Santa Clara University (USA), Crossroads Centre (Beijing), Triveni Kala Sangam (India), Merriweather Art District (USA) and KZNSA Gallery (South Africa). Our privacy policy.
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RAM DEVINENI
Founder and President
A filmmaker, publisher and founder of Rattapallax based in New York City and New Delhi. He produced, edited and directed the feature documentary, The Karma Killings, which was shot in India and released on Netflix. Recently, he produced The Russian Woodpecker, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. He is the creator of the interactive social-activist comic books, Priya’s Shakti, which received the Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund from the Ford Foundation and supported by the World Bank, and honored by UN Women as a “gender equality champion.” [ Learn more about Ram ]
SHUBHRA PRAKASH
Producer
She wrote Priya’s Mask, and co-produced the comic book series. She most recently co-wrote, produced and acted in an original play The Music In My Blood about Indian classical music that was seen by over a thousand audience members in the New York City area and the east coast. She presented a digital art exhibition in New Delhi at Kaleidoscope Digital Art gallery, “Fontwala: Stone to Mobile, what remains?” with Rajeev Prakash Khare, which shows the evolution of Indian Devnagri script and questions how digital media impacts the journey of a complex script.
MELANCONNIE
Art Director
They are an illustrator, animator, scientist and music enjoyer. As a gender and race activist, has been founder of art collectives such as Severas Nenas and multiple projects for awareness and action locally and internationally. Nominated for best videoclip on Bogoshorts 2021 with feminist music video “Los Chicos Si Lloran” for the Grammy winning band Diamante Eléctrico. Graduated from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá , Colombia, their home town. Created and directed Super Sheroes and comic workshops in Bogotá. Their love for drawing is only matched by their love for insects.
FLAVIA ROCHA
Editor-in-Chief
She is a Brazilian poet and journalist. She is the author of two poetry books, both published in Brazil, A Casa Azul ao Meio-dia/ The Blue House Around Noon (Travessa dos Editores, 2005) and Quartos Habitáveis (Confraria do Vento, 2011). She holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Columbia University. In the area of film, she is a founder of the Academia Internacional de Cinema, a film school located in São Paulo and Rio.
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Rattapallax’s program are supported, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council for the Arts. Past financial supporters include National Endowment for the Humanities, New York Council for the Humanities, Open Society, Jerome Foundation, Asian American Arts Alliance, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Theater Development Fund, Iran Heritage Foundation, Experimental TV, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Australia Council for the Arts, and others. Rattapallax magazine is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of New York Governor and the New York State Legislature.
