User:Stanislaus Sanjay/sandbox

Photographer, film-maker, editor, maker of the hugely popular ‘Happy – Tamil Nadu version’[]. Stanislaus Sanjay is one of Chennai’s newest talents. Ever since he was a child, he used to surround himself with cameras and electronic gadgets. Figuring that his passion lay in computers, he decided to do a degree in Computer Engineering. During his years in Panimalar Engineering College, he made his first short film with no budget and at-home equipment, a film which was praised to be nothing less than professional. His passion then changed to media and he made a decision to do a degree in Visual Communication, of which he is currently doing the second year at AAT Media College[], in which today’s leading artists like G.V. Prakash and Shruti Hassan have studied. It was during the first year of his college life that he made the Tamil Nadu version of the famous Pharrell Williams – Happy video[]. A video that was meant to be a small-scale project with his friends, it turned out to be venture involving 150 members including a few celebrities and partnered by top media companies like various radio channels, Sony Pix and few other TV channels, newspapers and magazines. This video turned out to be just the starting point. He got the chance to create the promotion video for Chennai Live 104.8 FM’s 14th Anniversary. This was followed by a music video for Vodafone’s Voice of Chennai[] which has gone viral. And today, Stanislaus is Express Avenue’s Events filmmaker, an opportunity given to him by the CEO of EA after seeing his talent. Apart from this, he is a freelance photographer and film-maker for various leading companies. Stanislaus is in the process of making a never-seen-before high-concept film, something which he promises will be a huge hit. This, he believes will help him lay the foundation to achieve his dream of film-making on a larger scale.