K.P. Sasi

K. P. Sasi (Malayalam: കെ പി ശശി) (Karuvannur Puthanveettil Sasi) is an Indian film director and Cartoonist from Bengaluru. His father K. Damodaran (25 February 1912 – 3 July 1976) was a Marxist theoretician and writer and one of the founder leaders of the Communist Party in India. He started working as a cartoonist while being a student at JNU during the late seventies. He started experimenting with films on 8mm during the early eighties. His documentaries include "A Valley Refuses to Die", "We Who Make History", "Living in Fear", "In the Name of Medicine" and "Voices from a Disaster". His feature films include Ilayum Mullum, on the social and psychological violence on women in Kerala, Ek Alag Mausam and Ssh..Silence Please, a silent comedy film on development. His films have been screened and awarded at several national and international film festivals. He is a founder member of ViBGYOR Film Festival.