Ishu Patel于1942年出生于印度的Jalsan，Baroda大学毕业取得艺术学士学位。于1970年加入了NFB(加拿大国家电影局)，期间创作出大量富有个人风格和宗教色彩的实验动画作品。常使用粘土，珠子，纸板透光等材料和技法制作出特别的动画，这些作品注重环保、战争等问题，充满了人道关怀，也带有浓浓的道德教诲意味。
屡获大奖的电影人Ishu Patel，他在动画技法上的革新得到了国际的认同，当他还在印度还是个孩子时就有一个抱负，那就是进入诺曼·麦克拉伦的加拿大国家电影局(NFB）工作。当然很多孩子都有他的梦想，但Patel的坚持不懈以及他的天分使他的梦想触手可及。
Patel在1970年进入NFB，先后在印度巴罗达文学院，印度的艾哈迈达巴德的国家设计研究院，瑞士的Allgemeine Gewerbeschule学习。1968年他在美国学习时获得Rockefeller奖学金，但是一直拖延到他能去NFB的时候才兑现。
Patel的许多电影反复在有名的电影节上获得头等荣誉。例如，电影The
Bead Game（1978）获得英国金像奖和奥斯卡提名；电影Afterlife（ 1978）获得加拿大国家电影奖和发过圣安妮国际汽车大奖赛大奖；电影Top Priority（1981）周期性的重复出现在波兰，德国，葡萄牙和意大利。电影Paradise (1984)在柏林电影节（1985）上获得银熊奖，在洛杉矶国际动画电影节（1985）上获得第一名以及获得奥斯卡（1985）提名。
Patel，他努力开垦新天地，保持着与自我的持续斗争。在幻想电影Paradise中，他使用了一大堆技法来创作很有深度的全息图。在他的最后一部电影Divine Fate (1993)中，他审问了在物质世界挣扎的人类的灵魂。作为NFB的超越计划的一部分，他放弃了动画工作室，与高纬北极地的Cape Dorse的因特杻艺术家一起工作，也与西非的加纳公共卫生工作人员一起工作。
Ishu Patel与日本的NHK和英国国家电台四台合拍动画，他已经为CBC贡献了超过100部的法语的栩栩如生的片子。在1998年他加入南加州大学电影艺术学院动画与数位艺术系教授实验动画和制片。在2001年，他继续自己的项目而放弃教学。
Born in Jalsan, India in 1942, Ishu Patel graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Baroda. He joined NFB (National Film Board of Canada) in 1970, during time in NFB, he created a large number of experimental animation works with clay, beads, cardboard and other materials and techniques ，his talents are often used to create those very special stop-motion animations. These works focus on issues such as environmental protection and war, and are full of humanitarian concerns and strong moral teachings.
Award-winning filmmaker Ishu Patel, internationally recognized for his innovations in animation technique, had an ambition as a child in India to enter Norman McLaren's National Film Board of Canada (NFB) to work in his own animations. Of course many kids have his dreams, but Patel's perseverance and his talent put his dreams within reach.
Patel joined the NFB in 1970 and studied at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India, National Institute of Design in India Ahmedabad, and Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Switzerland. In 1968 he was awarded a Rockefeller Scholarship while studying in the United States, but it was delayed until he could go to the NFB.
Many of Patel's films have repeatedly won top honors at prestigious film festivals. For example, the film The Bead Game (1978) was nominated for a British Academy Award and an Oscar; the film Afterlife (1978) won the Canadian National Film Award and the Grand Prix of St Anne's; the film Top Priority (1981) recurred periodically in Poland, Germany, Portugal and Italy. The film Paradise (1984) won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival (1985), won first prize at the Los Angeles International Animation Film Festival (1985) and was nominated for an Oscar (1985).
Patel, who strives to break new ground, maintains a constant struggle with himself. In the fantasy film Paradise, he used a bunch of techniques to create deep holograms. In his last film, Divine Fate (1993), he interrogated the human souls struggling in the physical world. As part of the NFB's Beyond program, he ditched the animation studio to work with inter-artists in Cape Dorse in the high latitude arctic, as well as with Ghanaian public health workers in West Africa.
Ishu Patel has co-produced animations with Japan's NHK and British BBC Channel 4, and he has contributed more than 100 lifelike films in French to CBC. In 1998 he joined the Department of Animation and Digital Arts at the USC School of Cinematic Arts to teach experimental animation and production. In 2001, he continued his project and gave up teaching.
【《天堂》介绍 Introduction of Paradise】
A Black Bird tries to imitate a Divine Bird in a Crystal Place
Based on a old poem from India
Design/ Animation/Direction – Ishu Patel
Technique –Cell animation, under lit backgrounds & mix media
Music – Zamphir / Normand Roger
National Film Board of Canada
Ishu Patel Filmography
1. How Death Came to Earth (1972) - 14 min. 20m sec
Based on a folktale from India
National Film Board of Canada production
2. Perspectrum (1974) – 6 min. 30 sec
Abstract Experimental film on colour & perspective
National Film Board of Canada Production
3. The Bead Game (1977) – 6 min.
Animated beads tell the story of human aggression
National Film Board of Canada Production
4. Afterlife (1978) – 7 min. 20 sec
A Visual essay on Life after death
National Film Board Of Canada Production
5. Top Priority (1980) – 9min. 20 sec.
A drought stricken family is waiting for water pumps…!!!
National Film Board of Canada Production
6. Paradise (1984) – 15 min.
A Black Bird tries to imitate a Divine Bird in a Crystal Place
National Film Board of Canada Production
7. Divine Fate (1984) – 11 min.
A cautionary tale - Over use of earth’s recourses
National Film Board of Canada / Channel 4 production
8. Moondust (2010) 1 min.
United Airlines TV commercial for Beijing Olympics
Image par Image production