Lenathannimalai Srinivasan

Lenathannimalai Srinivasan

  • Teaching Fellow (749)
Department of Film and Theatre
  • School of Film and Performing Arts
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Biography

In my teens, I found words frustratingly inadequate, always one step behind my thoughts and emotions. That gap nudged me toward images. I remember picking up a camera to make a documentary on my grandmother鈥檚 childhood for her 80th birthday. What began as a curiosity for documentaries gradually stretched into a love for narrative cinema.

From Penang, I wandered across oceans for education in Perth and London, then entered the Indian film industry in Chennai, moving between commercials and feature sets. Eventually, I drifted back to KL, where I now try to breathe life into memories and stories buried beneath the mundane.
 

 

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • MA Filmmaking (London Film School)
  • BA Mass Communication (Curtin University, Australia)

Research Interests

  • 1. Grassroot creative community
  • 2. Folk Music and Stories
  • 3. Plantation anthropology

Teaching Areas

  • 1. Experimental visual art
  • 2. Narrative cinema

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Audio-Visual Production
  • Audio Visual Post-Production
  • Introduction to Digital Cinematography

Achievements & Accolades

  1. Writer-director for Haiku (Short docudrama), screened at SeaShorts 2024 and KLEX (Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival) 2025.
  2. 1st Assistant Director in the feature films, Blues (2025) and Macai (2025).
  3. 1st Assistant Director for the award-winning Cannes short film, Bleat (2025).
     

Professional Associations

  1. Curator for the recurring Seashorts Special Programme, Beyond Indian Shores.
  2. Programmer and Organiser of Naadodi Community Screenings.
  3. Moderator at Malaysian International Film Festival (MIFFest) forums.