Manick Sorcar
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Manick Sorcar (formal name Prafulla Chandra "P.C." Sorcar) is an Indian American artist, engineer, and entrepreneur based in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Sorcar is an award-winning artist [1] in various media, including fine arts, cartoons, animations, and world-touring stage shows with live action mixed with laser animation. His animated films, all based on children's stories from India, have won prestigious awards at international film festivals. He shot to fame in the nineties when his "Deepa and Rupa: A Fairy Tale From India", India's first animation mixed with live action, received the Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1990, and "The Sage and the Mouse" won the Gold Medal at the International Film Festival of New York[2] in 1993. After this, his "Calcutta Forever: A Laser Fantasy" was recorded as the first laser-documentary screened inside a movie theatre.
Sorcar is the first Indian-American to receive the ILDA Artistic Award twice from the International Laser Display Association. The first[3] was in 2006 for his "Enlightenment of Buddha", which mixed live-performance with life-size laser animation and three-dimensional visual effects on stage and won the First Place at the 2005 International Laser Display Association award contest. The second[4] was in 2008, for his laser-art “Reflection”, which, too, won the First Place for laser photography at the 2007 ILDA award contest.
Sorcar is the president of Sorcar Engineering[5], a Denver-based electrical engineering and lighting firm which did the lighting design for Denver International Airport concourses, sport centers in Japan, and several Saudi Arabian palaces. As an author in the field of electrical engineering, he has written several popular lighting design texts. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Benaras Hindu University (BHU), India.
Sorcar is the son of legendary Indian magician P.C. Sorcar[6]. He is married to Shikha Sorcar, and has two daughters, Payal Sorcar and Piya Sorcar.
[edit] References
- ^ The Animator (Trans World Features, Interview, 2004)
- ^ Manick Sorcar: Building bridges through art and animation (OnlyPunjab.com, 2005)
- ^ Prestigious award for creator of Buddha laser show (The Buddhist Channel, 2006)
- ^ ILDA honors LaserLight Magic photography with 2007 Artistic Award (LaserFocusWorld, 2008)
- ^ Animate Magic (The Hindu, 2006)
- ^ Manick Sorcar Wins for Rule of Twenty-One (The Statesman, 2004)
