Interestingly, though Prana has a production house in Los Angeles most of the work for large Hollywood studios happens out of Mumbai. Talking about Prana’s body of work, apart from creating visual effects for films and television, it works on commercials, theme parks and expos too.
READ: Jon Snow lives – at least according to GoT fan theories The studio is backed by a group of investors which include Anand Mahindra, chairman of the Mahindra Group, and Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries chairman. Prana Studios was founded by Fyzee, Kristin Dornig and Pankaj Gunsagar in 2003. It is best known for its Academy Award-winning visual effects in Ang Lee’s ‘Life of Pi’. According to Gz.com, the entire project was executed in collaboration with Rhythm and Hues, the American visual animation studio that Prana Studios acquired in 2013. The Mumbai-based studio also created the set and crowd extensions in the fifth season of GoT.
According to an article published in Qz.com, Arish Fyzee, CEO and creative director of Prana Studios, told Quartz, “The producers wanted creatures that had a level of sophistication very high for any television series, and very realistic and engaging as the characters of creatures.” It took the hard work of 800 employees of Prasna’s Mumbai enterprise- including visual artists, animators, light and sound experts and technology specialists– to finally create the dragons, including the brave-hearted Drogon, using CGI (computer-generated imagery).Īnd that’s not all. The brief given to the company was to not just create creatures, but characters too. What’s more, the Indian company is based out of Goregaon in Mumbai.
She launched her own charity SameYou in 2019, which aims to broaden neurorehabilitation access for young people after a brain injury or stroke.You might be a great fan of ‘ Game of Thrones’ but did you know that the three fire-breathing beasts for the fifth season of HBO’s record-breaking TV series ‘Game of Thrones’ were actually created by an Indian subsidiary of Prana Studios, which is a 3D, visual effects and animation company based in Los Angeles. In 2019, in a personal essay published in The New Yorker, Emilia revealed that she had suffered from two life threatening brain aneurysms in 20. In 2019, she was named as the first ambassador for the global Nursing Now campaign. In 2018, she was named as the ambassador to the Royal College of Nursing because of her efforts in raising awareness about the working condition of the nurses in the UK. Since her rise to prominence, Emilia has contributed to various charitable organisations. She played the lead role of Louisa Clark in the romantic comedy blockbuster До зустрічі з тобою (2016) and went on to star in Соло. She played Sarah Connor in Термінатор: Генезис (2015), opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jai Courtney and Jason Clarke. From March to April 2013, she played Holly Golightly in a Broadway production of "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
In 2011, her breakthrough role came in when she replaced fellow newcomer Tamzin Merchant on Гра престолів (2011) after the filming of the original pilot episode.
In 2010, after graduating from the Drama Centre London, Emilia got her first film role in the television movie Triassic Attack (2010). During this time, Emilia first appeared on television with a guest role in the BBC soap opera Doctors (2000). She went on to study acting at the prestigious Drama Centre London, where she took part in 10 plays. Edward's School of Oxford, where she appeared in two school plays. This is when, at the age of 3, her passion for acting began. Her father was working on a theatre production of "Show Boat" and her mother took her along to the performance.
Her father was a theatre sound engineer and her mother is a businesswoman. British actress Emilia Clarke was born in London and grew up in Oxfordshire, England.