Shyam Madhavan Sarada
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Shyam Madhavan Sarada is a first-generation entrepreneur, self-taught writer & illustrator, designer, photographer, filmmaker and diehard potato-lover. He is the founder of Wannabe Studios and The Stepping Stone Film Festival (The S2F2), and is also a founding member of Bookalore, Bangalore's Big Little Book Club.
He writes, illustrate and designs children's books under the pseudonym Greystroke and produces films/does film-related work under the banner Wannabe Studios. He is the (producer and) director of Onan (Tamil/English, 2009) "India's First Full-Length Guerrilla Feature Film", the result of a one-of-its kind online collaboration among 15 filmmakers and film lovers from 7 countries around the world.
He has a degree in Zoology, an MBA in Marketing and is qualified in 2D/3D animation design, special effects and non-linear editing. He is the art director for Melting Pot, a content & design house, and is part of the team behind the award-winning Mahindra newsletter, Skyline. He also worked on two children's magazines (HOOT and TOOT, 2009 - 2013) published by Hachette India and Impulse Marketing,