Vikram Jayanti
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Vikram Teja Jayanti is an Indian-American documentary filmmaker responsible for a number of well known full-feature documentary films.[1] Two films he has production credits on have received Academy Awards for Best Full-Feature Documentary: he was a co-producer of the 1997 blockbuster When We Were Kings[2] and a creative consultant on 2005's Born Into Brothels. A sampling of his other work includes Innocents Abroad, The Man Who Bought Mustique, James Ellroy's Feast of Death, Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine,[3] Lincoln[4] and The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector.[5][6] He and his films have also won a number of other awards, including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and have been nominated for others.[7][8]
Jayanti is currently a Film Studies tutor at University College London.[9] He is a frequent collaborator with the award-winning film-maker Anthony Wall, Editor of BBC Arena.