ONCA Green Curtain Award 2022 for 'ASTRA' (director, co-writer, designer, puppet maker, puppeteer), Best Animated Film 2022 for 'Priya & the Twirling Wind' (director, writer, designer, puppet maker, puppeteer), Best Short Documentary 2017 for 'Hooray for Hollywood'(co-producer, director, writer, designer, puppet maker), Primary Times Children’s Choice Award, 2014 & Three Weeks Editors’ Choice Award 2015 for 'A Pocketful of Grimms' (puppet maker), Audience Choice 2011 for 'Fragile/Sacred' (producer, director, writer, designer, puppet maker), Best Short Film 2011 for Tree Man (puppeteer), Artist Residency Awards: Little Angel Digital Shorts 2022, AA2A 2016-17, Little Angel Incubate/Hatch 2015-16, Puppet Centre Trust 2010-11
Audiences Catered For
10-15 years Adult only
Suitable Venue
Small < 40 Medium 40-250
Target Audience
TV/Film Theatres/Art Centres Schools/Colleges Festivals Community groups
Availability
All week Any location
About
Raven Kaliana is a puppet maker, puppeteer, workshop leader, visiting lecturer, conference presenter, and animator. She directs Puppet (R)Evolution Theatre Company, producing plays and films on social issues. She’s presented Hooray for Hollywood, her award-winning puppet-based film on human trafficking, at UN Geneva, NY Commission on the Status of Women, London City Hall, and Oxford. She’s used the film teaching students at Roehampton; Kingston; Royal Central School of Speech & Drama; New York University. Love vs Trauma, her puppet play on resilience, toured to China, Puerto Rico, Greece; as well as London, Birmingham, and Brighton, UK. Her work has been chronicled by BBC News, Changemakers Magazine, New York Times, The Guardian, Puppetry International, The Puppetry Journal, Eyestorm TV, Medium. Documentary interviews include No Strings Attached and Stories of Healing.