C. Umamaheswara Rao

C. Umamaheswara Rao is an Indian film director, screenwriter, aesthetician and producer known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He has also scripted and directed a few television serials for Doordarshan. He has garnered two Nandi Awards, and theNational Film Award. He is also Social and Cultural activist. He is born in Vijayawada now the new capital of Andhrapradesh.

From his childhood his voracious reading of books had driven him towards literature and performing arts and to progressive ideologies. In his early years, he had written poetry and short stories in Telugu.

His Telugu legendary film Ankuram, first film of its kind on human rights and civil liberties bagged him National Award and AP State's Best Director Award and many Civilian. His Sreekaram, a Telugu film on hazardous trail on in-camera court against woman rape victim by defence lawyers, gained him AP state's Feature film Award. Actually, this film dealt with Kiranjit Ahluwalia's case prior to Aishwarya Ray's film ‘Provoked’. To mention some more are much accoladed ‘Stree’, a documentary on the exploitation faced by Indian woman, very popular TV serials like ‘Himabindu’, ‘Mr. Brahmanandam ‘and Telefilms like Hamsafar (Hindi), Manchu Bomma and many more. He had many short and ad films to his credit.

Recently he had done 15 Telefilms on Film aesthetics for Ur films. They have been successfully telecast in 10 TV. And they are being shown in so many short film festivals for educating the participants.

He is the Chairman of Jury in 4 Short Film festivals and had been the jury member in AP State Awards Committee 2010 and twice Juror in UNESCO Ladli Awards Committee.

Presently he is the Vice Chairman for Center for New Perspectives in Film and Media, Hyderabad, and the convener of the advisory board of Dadasaheb Phalke School of Film Studies chaired by Mr. Allu Aravind and members being M/s Vijayendra Prasad, Resool Pookutty, Madhu Ambat, Neelakanta, Sreekar Prasad, Indraganti Mohan Krishna, Paruchuri Bros., etc. as advisors.

National Film Awards

• Best Feature Film in Telugu (director) - Ankuram (1993)

Nandi Awards

• Best Director - Ankuram (1993)
• Best Feature Film - Sreekaram (1996)

K.V.Reddy Award - Best Director - Ankuram (1993)

Kala Sagar Awards- Best Director, Best Feature Film, Best Lyric, Best Actress.

Bharat Muni Awards - Best Director, Best Screen play , Best Editor.