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Mandala

1987

Jocasta, an 18-year-old sociology student and daughter of communist activist Túlio Silveira, is actively involved in the country's political landscape. She is in love with Laio—her polar opposite—a disengaged, esoteric young man who lives off his wealthy father's allowance. A mystic, Laio makes no move without consulting his guru and friend Argemiro, whom he turns to upon learning of Jocasta's pregnancy. The cowrie shell reading reveals that his son is destined to kill him and enter into a romantic relationship with his mother. Terrified, Laio disappears with the child immediately after birth, aided by Argemiro—who loves Laio and loathes Jocasta. Twenty-five years later, Jocasta is a successful yet restless woman searching for her missing son. She is estranged from Laio, who has spent recent years expanding his father's fortune through involvement in underground gambling. On a highway, he encounters Oedipus, unaware that the young man is his son.

Mandala Tayde

Timothy Mandala

Adam Mandala

Akio Jissoji

Director · Known for Ultraseven

Akio Jissoji was a Japanese television and film director best known outside Japan for the 1960s TV series Ultraman and Ultra Seven, as well as for his auteur erotic ATG-produced Buddhist trilogy Mujō (無常), Mandala (曼陀羅), and Uta (哥). He was also known for his film adaptations of Japanese horror author Rampo Edogawa. Jissoji possessed a very distinctive visual style that was notable even in Japanese cinema which is known internationally for its visual style. Every project he directed, from children's action shows to the most disturbing adult films had an uncompromising approach to cinematic story telling. His episodes of the Ultraman TV shows are unique and quite unusual for children's television. His career is also unusual in that he went back and forth from children's television to film projects that were sexually provocative in some way or another. It is perhaps this aspect of his work that has prevented wider distribution of his films. Sadomasochistic and non-consensual sexual practices are featured in many of his film works with women receiving the brunt of the abuse. Another recurring theme was to pull the camera back and reveal the set his actors were working on.

Losang Samten

Losang Samten (Tibetan: བློ་བཟང་བསམ་གཏན།, Wylie: blo-bzang bsam-gtan) is a Tibetan-American scholar, sand mandala artist, former Buddhist monk, and Spiritual Director of the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia. He is one of only an estimated 30 people worldwide who are qualified to teach the traditional art of Tibetan sandpainting.He has written two books and helped to create the first Tibetan sand mandala ever shown publicly in the West in 1988. In 2002, he was made a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment of the Arts. In 2004, he was granted a Pew Fellowship in Folk and Traditional Arts. Born into a Buddhist family in Chung Ribuce (Ü-Tsang, Tibet) in 1953,Samten spent two months crossing the Himalayas with his family to Nepal in 1959.After arriving in Dharamsala, India in 1964 or 1965,Samten entered Namgyal Monastery in Dharamsala, taking the vows of a novice monk there in 1967. He probably took full ordination at Namgyal in 1969. While enrolled at Namgyal, Samten also studied the arts of ritual dance and sand mandala construction at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts. (Both institutions are closely associated with the 14th Dalai Lama.) In 1985 he earned a Master's Degree in Buddhist Philosophy, Sutra, and Tantra from Namgyal Monastery. After fleeing central Tibet as a child refugee in 1959, Samten studied, debated, and practiced for more than two decades in exile at Namgyal Monastery: since its establishment (in either 1564 or 1565) by the 3rd Dalai Lama, the personal monastery of all the Dalai Lamas. In 1975, Samten began the intensive three-year program which would ultimately enable him to construct traditional mandalas out of sand. He earned the formal title Geshe in 1985, having won a Master's Degree in Buddhist Philosophy, Sutra, and Tantra: roughly equivalent to a Western academic institution's Ph.D. Samten then served the 14th Dalai Lama as his personal attendant from 1985–1988, after which, he moved to the US. In 1988, Samten was charged by the 14th Dalai Lama to come to the United States to demonstrate the sand mandala art form; marking the first time that a Tibetan mandala was constructed in the West, at New York City's American Museum of Natural History.Moving to Philadelphia in 1989, he joined Kelsang Monlam (from Drepung Gomang Monastic College, d. 2012, age 87), and eventually became the spiritual director of the Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia. Samten left monastic life in 1995.He has established seven separate dharma centers in the U.S. and Canada, and currently resides in Philadelphia. In 1997, Samten worked on the Martin Scorsese film Kundun – about the young 14th Dalai Lama – as religious technical advisor, sand mandala supervisor, and actor. Samten has also written two books, including Ancient Teachings in Modern Times: Buddhism in the 21st Century. His history of Namgyal Monastery is written in Tibetan.

Beth Curry

Beth Curry won the Oscar-sponsored Nicholl Fellowship in 2020 for her script Lemon, which went on to be optioned by Mandalay Pictures. Her script, The Wonder Yard, starring Kate Mara, Tony Shalhoub, and Jacki Weaver will hopefully shoot in early 2026. She has another feature called Almost Normal, with Annaleigh Ashford attached to star. As a multi-hyphenate, Beth used to perform on the Broadway stage in shows like Legally Blonde, Good Vibrations, Young Frankenstein, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. She has appeared in many TV shows as an actor: Hacks, GLOW, Shining Vale, Superstore, Hart of Dixie, Pretty Freekin’ Scary, Hacks, Seal Team, Paradise, and many others. She just directed and produced a short film of her Nicholl script, Lemon, which helped her become a Shondaland Directing Fellowship Finalist of 2025.

Kiran Bhakta Joshi

Executive Producer · Known for A Million Ways to Die in the West

Kiran Bhakta Joshi, is an award-winning director, producer, and animation pioneer who began his career at Walt Disney Studios, where he helped bring to life classics such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. His groundbreaking work on the wildebeest stampede in The Lion King became a benchmark in CG animation. In 2007, Kiran returned to his native Nepal to found Incessant Rain, a world-class animation and VFX company based in Kathmandu. Kiran’s short film Mandala won multiple awards at various international film festivals. He was the co-Director & Producer for the award-winning documentary Moving Mountains: The Awakening. He was the Executive Producer on Bobblehead: The Movie. He also worked as the VFX Producer on House of Dragons, The Hunger Games, John Wick: Chapter 4, Stranger Things, One Piece, Chappie, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Red Sparrow, Wednesday, Yellowjackets, Gangs of London and many other films. He is a member of the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences and serves as a special advisor to Women in Animation Nepal (WIA-Nepal), a nonprofit affiliated with Women in Animation Global, based in Los Angeles.

Katie Garfield

Katie Garfield is a singer-songwriter/actress currently living in Los Angeles. She has been writing, recording and performing music in LA for three years, and released her first official single titled ‘Put Me Back On My Throne’ in February 2015. She has had guest-star roles on hit TV shows such as 'Nashville' ‘Sleepy Hollow’, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ and ‘Under the Dome’. She plays Catherine Turner in Nate Parker's ‘The Birth of a Nation’(Mandalay Pictures, 2016). The film won the Grand Jury & Audience Awards at Sundance 2016, and landed the largest sale in Sundance-history to Fox Searchlight. The film hits theaters on October 7th, 2016.

Peter Guber

Producer · Executive Producer · Known for Batman, Clue, Ghost Soldier

Howard Peter Guber (born March 1, 1942) is an American film producer, business executive, entrepreneur, educator, and author. He is chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment. Guber's films have grossed over $3 billion worldwide and received 50 Academy Award nominations. Guber is also a co-owner of five professional sports teams: the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association, the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association, the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Football Club of Major League Soccer, and the professional eSports organization aXiomatic Gaming, with a controlling interest in one of the world's premier eSports franchises, Team Liquid. Guber formerly served as chairman of Dick Clark Productions, which produces the American Music Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and other shows. He was also chairman of the Strategic Board; was an investor in NextVR, which was sold to Apple in 2020; and is chairman of Mandalay Sports Media. He is co-executive chairman of aXiomatic, a broad-based esports and gaming company. He is a Regent of the University of California and a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television and the UCLA Anderson School of Management. For ten years, Guber was an entertainment and media analyst for Fox Business. Guber's most recent business book, Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. Guber is also noted for other books that include Inside the Deep and Shootout: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune in Hollywood, which became a television series on AMC called Shootout. Guber hosted the show from 2003 to 2008 with Peter Bart, editor of Variety. Guber wrote a cover article for the Harvard Business Review, titled "The Four Truths of the Storyteller". Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Guber, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Leslie Cowan

Producer · Known for Fargo

Leslie Cowan is a Canadian film and television producer, production manager and president of production company Original Pictures Alberta. In more than 25 years, she produced and managed all three seasons of the Emmy-award winning series Fargo, the Steven Spielberg/TNT Emmy-award winning miniseries Into the West, and the ABC/Hallmark miniseries Dreamkeeper. She has worked for Warner Bros, MGM, Disney, New Line Cinema, Miramax, Lifetime, Revolution Films, Mandalay Entertainment, Lifetime, FX, CBC, CTV and Syfy networks.

Ravi Basrur

Composer · Known for Drishyam: The Conclusion, Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups

**Ravi Basrur** (born Kiran on 1 January 1984) is an acclaimed Indian music composer, sound designer, lyricist, and film director who works predominantly in Kannada cinema, alongside high-profile projects across Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam film industries. Renowned for his heavy percussion-driven orchestrations, thundering background scores, and immersive soundscapes, he is one of the most prominent pan-Indian technicians to emerge from Sandalwood. Born in Basrur, a coastal village in the Kundapura taluk of the Udupi district in Karnataka, he was raised in an artisanal family with roots in traditional blacksmithing and temple sculpting. Drawn to devotional bhajan mandalis and Yakshagana folk music from childhood, he faced severe financial hardship during his youth and worked several odd jobs while teaching himself keyboard and rhythm programming. In homage to a benefactor named Ravi who bought him his very first musical keyboard, he adopted the name Ravi Basrur when entering the film industry. He made an explosive feature debut as a music director with Prashanth Neel's directorial debut *Ugramm* (2014), where his intense, adrenaline-pumping score won him the SIIMA Award for Best Background Score. He followed this with scores for films across genres, including *Karvva* (2016), *Anjani Putra* (2017), and *Mufti* (2017). His career reached unprecedented heights through his historic collaboration on Prashanth Neel and Yash's magnum opus *K.G.F: Chapter 1* (2018). His wall of sound, haunting choral arrangements, and brass motifs played a defining role in the film's pan-Indian cult success, earning him the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Music Director and the SIIMA Award for Best Music Director. He solidified his pan-Indian stature with the massive sequel *K.G.F: Chapter 2* (2022) and went on to handle major multi-lingual tentpoles, including Prashanth Neel's Prabhas-starrer *Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire* (2023), Salman Khan's *Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan* (2023), Ajay Devgn's *Bholaa* (2023), and *Bhairathi Ranagal* (2024). Beyond composing, Basrur is a dedicated filmmaker deeply invested in regional storytelling. Working out of his high-tech studio built right in his native village of Basrur, he has written and directed several distinctive feature films, including the Kundagannada-dialect features *Gargar Mandala* (2014) and *Bilindar* (2016), the critically praised children's horror-drama *Kataka* (2017), the all-children commercial parody *Girmit* (2019), *Kadal* (2024), and *Veera Chandrahasa* (2025). Blending traditional coastal rhythm sensibilities with modern symphonic metal and electronic production, he remains a transformative musical force in Indian cinema.

Lyle Talbot

Lyle Talbot (born Lisle Henderson) was an American actor on stage and screen, known for his career in film from 1931 to 1960 and for his appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s. He played Ozzie Nelson's friend and neighbor, Joe Randolph, for ten years in the ABC situation comedy The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. He began his movie career under contract with Warner Brothers in the early days of sound film. He appeared in more than 150 films, first as a young matinee idol and later as a character actor and star of many B movies. He was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild and later served on its board. Talbot's long career as an actor is recounted in a book by his youngest daughter, The New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot, entitled The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books 2012). Most notable among Talbot's film work were his appearances in Three on a Match and 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (both 1932). He played a star running back in College Coach (1933) with Pat O'Brien and Dick Powell, romanced opera singer Grace Moore in One Night of Love in 1934, and pursued Mae West in Go West, Young Man (1936). He was a gangster in Ladies They Talk About and Heat Lightning and a doctor kicking a drinking habit in Mandalay. He co-starred with Pat O'Brien in Oil for the Lamps of China (1935). He appeared opposite Ann Dvorak, Carole Lombard, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young and Shirley Temple, as well as sharing the screen with Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and Tyrone Power. Overall, Talbot appeared in some 150 movies.

Mandalynn Carlson

Mandela Bellamy

Cast · Known for The Dangerous Book for Boys

Mandela Bellamy is an actress.

Madalasa Sharma

Cast · Known for Anupamaa

Madalsa Sharma (or Madalasa Sharma) is an Indian model and actress. She has acted in films in Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, German and Punjabi languages.

Mangala Kenkre

Cast · Known for Baby Do Die Do

Mandaadi

2026

DramaAction

A fishing captain applies his maritime knowledge in a traditional boat race along Tamil Nadu's coast during a festival, leading a six-person team against other crews.