Chicago – Director Rujanee Mahakanjana has created some atypical and artistic statements in her film career. Her studio Nebula Creatives represents that work, which includes the short films “Random Seating” and “Out of Sight,” and feature films “Man and His Erections” and “Parallel Universe.” She is taking a different route to her next film, “Lab 99,” with a creative process that utilizes the comic book format.
The beginnings of the screenplay for “Lab 99” began in 2010, and nearly made it to a production. When that didn’t come to fruition, Mahakanjana – through an idea from “Lab 99” producer Christian Stanfield – moved the screenplay to a comic book format. This allowed the narrative, about outer space aliens and their counterparts on earth, to expand into a visual medium. As Mahakanjana explains below, that gave her and the creative team room to further develop the story, and brought it to another level.
Comic Book Image from ‘Lab 99,...
The beginnings of the screenplay for “Lab 99” began in 2010, and nearly made it to a production. When that didn’t come to fruition, Mahakanjana – through an idea from “Lab 99” producer Christian Stanfield – moved the screenplay to a comic book format. This allowed the narrative, about outer space aliens and their counterparts on earth, to expand into a visual medium. As Mahakanjana explains below, that gave her and the creative team room to further develop the story, and brought it to another level.
Comic Book Image from ‘Lab 99,...
- 11/13/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – The short film gets its due this upcoming weekend, as the 2014 “Shortcut 100 Film Festival,” produced by Nebula Creatives, unreels on August 31st at the Chicago Filmmakers Loft, on Clark Street in the Andersonville neighborhood. Rujanee Mahakanjana is one of the producers of the festival, and the founder of Nebula Creatives.
Rujanee Mahakanjana is originally from Bangkok, Thailand, and moved to the U.S. to study as a teenager. After receiving her Masters in Studio Art in 2005 from Northern Illinois University, she moved to Chicago to pursue a career in installation art and interior design. At the same time, she became interested in filmmaking as an expression, and after doing some short films she released her mock documentary feature, “Man and His Erections” in 2009. One year later, she premiered her narrative feature “Parallel Universe,’ and she spoke to HollywoodChicago.com about it in 2010.
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Rujanee Mahakanjana is originally from Bangkok, Thailand, and moved to the U.S. to study as a teenager. After receiving her Masters in Studio Art in 2005 from Northern Illinois University, she moved to Chicago to pursue a career in installation art and interior design. At the same time, she became interested in filmmaking as an expression, and after doing some short films she released her mock documentary feature, “Man and His Erections” in 2009. One year later, she premiered her narrative feature “Parallel Universe,’ and she spoke to HollywoodChicago.com about it in 2010.
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- 8/29/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Last year, a documentary premiered here at the Gene Siskel Film Center, provocatively entitled “Man and His Erections.” The writer/director of the film is Rujanee Mahakanjana, an artist and designer who has been exploring filmmaking in the last five years. Her latest feature, premiering this week, is “Parallel Universe.”
Mahakanjana was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and has been in the U.S. since her teenage years. Her background in architecture and interior design led to the formation of her “Rujanee in Space” studio. Her Masters degree studies led her to filmmaking, a short experimental piece called “Random Seating.” The expansion of this journey led to her documentary Man and His Erections, a treatise on monumental building design, that featured a sharp and comedic fictional narrative about an adult film star who has lost his organic structure.
Both Sides Now: Ed Meanan as Mit and Tim in ‘Parallel Universe...
Mahakanjana was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and has been in the U.S. since her teenage years. Her background in architecture and interior design led to the formation of her “Rujanee in Space” studio. Her Masters degree studies led her to filmmaking, a short experimental piece called “Random Seating.” The expansion of this journey led to her documentary Man and His Erections, a treatise on monumental building design, that featured a sharp and comedic fictional narrative about an adult film star who has lost his organic structure.
Both Sides Now: Ed Meanan as Mit and Tim in ‘Parallel Universe...
- 12/13/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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