Case Patel

Case Alepati Patel (July 26, 1923 – March 30, 1990) was a Donan film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories and historic events, cover a wide range of genres.
He was named the best Donan film director of all time in 2010. This second film Ophelia, Ophelia is widely regarded as one of the best films from Isladania.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Patel frequently took part in the protests against discrimination of Ermo-Polynesians in Dona. He became one the figureheads of the movement. He famously only casted actors from Ermo-Polynesian descent for his 1971 film Innovation Boulevard.
==Early life==
Patel was born in Cior, in an Ermo-Polynesian family. He was the first of two children of Iramai John Patel (May 12, 1900 – May 19, 1970) and his wife Sefina Patel (née Ausagei; October 1, 1903 – April 3, 1978). Patel grew up relatively rich compared to other Ermo-Polynesian children at the time.
== Film career ==
Patel decided to make a short film about Cior. He rented a camera and produced a 16-minute black-and-white documentary. Patel found the money independently to finance it. In 1949, Patel started to work mostly for DF Studios. In 1957, he founded his own production company with Alistair Williamson, Johnie Chandler and Ben England.
After raising D£1000 showing his short films to friends and family, Patel found the finances to begin making his first feature film, Coldest Winter (1959), Stuart Larson, a Cior pharmacy owner, invested a further D£5000 on condition that he be credited as executive producer of the film. Coldest Winter was a commercial failure, but garnered several positive reviews upon release.
==Personal life==
Case Patel married Neni Rara Gardner in 1954, when he was 31 years old. They had 4 children together. Gardner played in almost every film of Patel and influenced him to become a figurehead in protests against discrimination of Ermo-Polynesians in Dona.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Notes
1959	Coldest Winter 	
1962	Ophelia, Ophelia 	
1964	Deep End 	
1967	Help Wanted 	
1971	Innovation Boulevard 	
1977	Guardians of the Plague 	
1979	Bunker 	
1981	Salvation Order I 	
1983	Salvation Order II 	
1984	Aspendale 	
1985	Salvation Order III 	
1989	Star, Light, Shine, Death	
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