Costafilm specializes exclusively on programming for CTC. Costafilm provides CTC with dramas, sketch shows, TV films and sitcoms. Among its products are the original long-running series Cadets and the original Russian sitcom Daddy’s Girls, both among CTC’s most successful recent programs. Daddy’s Girls is the first original Russian sitcom. It is a comedy about a single father and his five daughters. Cadets is an original Russian series about a daily life of boys enrolled in a military school. On many projects Costafilm works in cooperation with the premier TV content producers such as Sony Pictures, Buena Vista, and FremantleMedia.
Stephen Day is an American composer, producer, instrumentalist, vocalist and teacher. His credits range from scoring portions of the film Formula 51, starring Samuel L. Jackson, to founding a nonprofit organization, Ombience, dedicated to spreading spirituality through art.
Background and career
Born in California and brought up in Canada and France, Day has worked for over 20 years as a composer, producer, instrumentalist, vocalist and teacher. After studying sarod with world-renowned sarod player Ustad Amjad Ali Khan in India for three years, Stephen embarked on various tours throughout the world. He works in multiple genres, including Western classical, Indian classical, jazz, folk, and rock music.
Stephen Day's performance career has taken him to twenty-one countries throughout Europe, North America and Asia. His audiences are people from all nations, castes and creeds who are seeking to enrich their own spiritual awareness. He has shared the stage with some of the great maestros of Indian classical music, including Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, his sons Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash (sarod), Nishat Khan (sitar), Sukivinder Singh (tabla), and Pratap Pawar (dance). In the West he has collaborated with Matt Malley (bass player of the Counting Crows), Chris Cutler, Keith Bennett (voice and harmonica), Barrie Gledden (Boosey and Hawkes composer), Patrick Hawes (Boosey and Hawkes composer), Steve Dawson (slide guitar, dobro), Jeannette Singh (violinist in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra), Levine Andrade (violinist in the London Symphony Orchestra), and the London Telharmonic Orchestra.
Ombience
Ombience works with various individuals, groups, organizations and institutions in society to raise awareness of the spiritual nature of the arts and of the creative and spontaneous nature of spirituality. Ombience, literally meaning the ambience of Om, has worked with various institutions, including the California State Public School system (K-12), California State Universities and Colleges, private schools, art and music festivals, museums, and yoga and meditation organizations.
The performing arts group has showcased at major venues including the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley's Wheeler Hall, and at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.
Discography
*Indian Classical Fusion (2001)
*Indian Dance Fusion (2000)
*Universal Silence (1998)
*Eternal Roots
*East Meets West
* (2001)
*Urban Culture
*Rich Girls (2003)
*Ajanta: Some Kind of Miracle (2003)
*Popera by Krassimir (2005)
*Origins of Yoga (2005)
*Naked in Ashes (2005)
*Little Angel
*Waking Dreams (2007)
*On the Inside (1996)
*Rules of War
*The Road Within
Background and career
Born in California and brought up in Canada and France, Day has worked for over 20 years as a composer, producer, instrumentalist, vocalist and teacher. After studying sarod with world-renowned sarod player Ustad Amjad Ali Khan in India for three years, Stephen embarked on various tours throughout the world. He works in multiple genres, including Western classical, Indian classical, jazz, folk, and rock music.
Stephen Day's performance career has taken him to twenty-one countries throughout Europe, North America and Asia. His audiences are people from all nations, castes and creeds who are seeking to enrich their own spiritual awareness. He has shared the stage with some of the great maestros of Indian classical music, including Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, his sons Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash (sarod), Nishat Khan (sitar), Sukivinder Singh (tabla), and Pratap Pawar (dance). In the West he has collaborated with Matt Malley (bass player of the Counting Crows), Chris Cutler, Keith Bennett (voice and harmonica), Barrie Gledden (Boosey and Hawkes composer), Patrick Hawes (Boosey and Hawkes composer), Steve Dawson (slide guitar, dobro), Jeannette Singh (violinist in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra), Levine Andrade (violinist in the London Symphony Orchestra), and the London Telharmonic Orchestra.
Ombience
Ombience works with various individuals, groups, organizations and institutions in society to raise awareness of the spiritual nature of the arts and of the creative and spontaneous nature of spirituality. Ombience, literally meaning the ambience of Om, has worked with various institutions, including the California State Public School system (K-12), California State Universities and Colleges, private schools, art and music festivals, museums, and yoga and meditation organizations.
The performing arts group has showcased at major venues including the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley's Wheeler Hall, and at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.
Discography
*Indian Classical Fusion (2001)
*Indian Dance Fusion (2000)
*Universal Silence (1998)
*Eternal Roots
*East Meets West
* (2001)
*Urban Culture
*Rich Girls (2003)
*Ajanta: Some Kind of Miracle (2003)
*Popera by Krassimir (2005)
*Origins of Yoga (2005)
*Naked in Ashes (2005)
*Little Angel
*Waking Dreams (2007)
*On the Inside (1996)
*Rules of War
*The Road Within
Shudh Desi Endings is an Indian YouTube channel which creates animated videos and spoofs. The channel has over 1,000,000 subscribers and approximately 3 million monthly views. The idea of Shudh Desi Endings stemmed from the similar animated web-series How It Should Have Ended in USA.
Shudh Desi Endings started another YouTube Channel 'Shudh Desi Raps' which features Raps in form of parody on 17 October 2014.
In June 2015, they launched yet another YouTube channel ShudhDesiGaane producing music spoofs.
History
Shudh Desi Endings was founded on 9 September 2013 by Anand Doshi of Mumbai-based Click Digital Studio (CDS).
Sister channels
* Shudh Desi Raps
* Shudh Desi Gaane
* Shudh Desi Videos
* Creative Brothers on Facebook
Shudh Desi Endings started another YouTube Channel 'Shudh Desi Raps' which features Raps in form of parody on 17 October 2014.
In June 2015, they launched yet another YouTube channel ShudhDesiGaane producing music spoofs.
History
Shudh Desi Endings was founded on 9 September 2013 by Anand Doshi of Mumbai-based Click Digital Studio (CDS).
Sister channels
* Shudh Desi Raps
* Shudh Desi Gaane
* Shudh Desi Videos
* Creative Brothers on Facebook
Harshit Saumitra is the youngest Indian mountain climber to trek up to the Everest Base Camp at the age of 5 years 11 months. Harshit spent 10 days trekking 45 miles to reach the Everest Base Camp at an altitude of 17,650 feet.
Biography
Harshit was born on 18 November 2008 to Rajeev Neetu Saumitra. Harshit started trekking at the age of 3. Harshit was accompanied by his father Rajeev Saumitra along with two guides during his trekking.
Awards & recognition
* Nepal Bharat Friendship Society<ref name="NDTV" />
* President of India<ref name="Avenue" />
Biography
Harshit was born on 18 November 2008 to Rajeev Neetu Saumitra. Harshit started trekking at the age of 3. Harshit was accompanied by his father Rajeev Saumitra along with two guides during his trekking.
Awards & recognition
* Nepal Bharat Friendship Society<ref name="NDTV" />
* President of India<ref name="Avenue" />