VINANTI SARKAR
	President of WLWD 2000 Inc./Producer/Director/ Scriptwriter

For over 15 years, Ms Sarkar has produced and directed 35/16mn film, video and digital HD TV programs, and first made a name for herself as "Our Girl From New York" correspondent for the STATESMAN Magazine.  She interviewed renowned film/TV/musical celebrities, which included: the Beatles, Ravi Shanker, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Hollywood's Clint Eastwood, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, politicians like Richard Nixon, the Clintons, etc.  In addition, she helped to conceive the first NRI newspaper called INDIA ABROAD (while working at the United Nations headquarters in New York), which was sold to Rediff.com.   From her interests as a photo-journalist and multimedia professional, she moved into filmmaking and distribution, after she graduated from Columbia University (New York) with two MA degrees and an ABD doctoral thesis in Mass Media Communications, using new media, computers and instructional technology, and specializing in docu-dramatic TV programs and film projects. Her ambition was to produce inspirational "life skill" TV dramas to educate India's illiterate millions in villages via satellite TV, but she returned to the U.S. to produce culturally diversified films for North America.

For her first documentary film assignment, she was awarded a budget of $100,000 for her idea to direct , "SHAKTI: She is Vital Energy", on rural women of India, (in French & English), which was later translated into 55 languages for worldwide distribution, by the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, Canada.  She continued to work as an investigative reporter/film journalist on the TV series: "THE AMERICAN FAMILY" focusing on (I) Caring & Intimacy;  (ii) Single Female Parent;  (iii) Single Male Parent;  (iv) Battered Women; (v) Teenage Pregnancy; and (vi) Child Abuse.    Then as an independent filmmaker, she produced and directed, "ALL THAT GLITTERS ... ?" on the rich and famous i.e. Malcolm Forbes, Elisabeth Taylor, etc.  Produced and directed 35mm film: FACING THE CHALLENGE on the late former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.  Presently, she has completed R& D and pre-production on the TV series: "WOMEN LEADERS WHO DARED ..." to become Presidents and Prime Ministers,  focusing on leadership role models, with the first film;" Woman of Norway" in production.   Most recently, she produced & directed Winner of three first prize awards at American Film Festivals: "MISTAKEN IDENTITY: Sikhs in America" on cultural diversity, and is working on the production, "JAIN ENLIGHTENMENT - A Way of Life" .

MISSION of Global Cultural Diversity Films Inc.

-To inform, educate and enrich the global community to understand their next door neighbors and learn more about the different heritage and multicultural backgrounds;

-To promote tolerance and understanding of the world heritage involving multiethnic lifestyles focusing on cultural values of social, religious, economical, historical and political backgrounds;

-To bring dramatic changes in understanding and fellowship among the culturally diversified communities through simple, yet vivid docu-dramatic visual language, using multimedia, television, films, the Internet streaming video and new media technology still being created and developed.