Siva Kumar Kondaveeti

Siva Kumar Kondaveeti is an award-winning director/producer known for Walk on Walk of Fame (2016), TAROT (2017), Pluck Trick (2017) and Kuebiko (2018). He produced several short films with budgets ranging 0 to $20,000. His Short documentary about celebrity impersonators "Walk on WALK OF FAME" won the Best short documentary award in Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival. His other experimental short film, "Pluck Trick," won the best short film award in The Orlando Edge Film Festival and Avalonia International Film Festival. A short documentary that he produced, "Sueños Americanos" won the Humanitarian Award in The Accolade Global Film Competition, La Jolla, CA. He earned his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Film Production from Full Sail University, Florida where he learned sound mixing from Bill W. Benton, who won the best sound mixing Academy Award for Dances with Wolves (1990). He also earned his Cinema Production Certificate from Los Angeles City College and attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for Film Direction. Before coming to the USA, he assisted Ram Gopal Varma (RGV), one of the most popular directors in Bollywood, in the direction department for six feature films. During the time he was assisting RGV, he got this opportunity to closely collaborate with some A-Listed Bollywood actors, such as Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Nana Patekar, Manisha Koirala and others. He moved to Los Angeles and currently working on Pre-Production of his upcoming debut feature film "SMILE MAN".