Shakti Bhagchandani is a filmmaker from the UAE. She completed her MFA in Screenwriting and Directing at Columbia University, where she began her career with a narrative short film titled Lostfound. The short gained recognition when it was showcased at the Sundance Film Festival, making her the first filmmaker from the UAE to be selected for the festival. Subsequently, the film was screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Chicago International Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival, among many others.

She has also co-written five additional short films: Khargosh, showcased at Palm Springs International Shortfest; Absent, a Vimeo Staff Pick that screened at Hamptons Film Festival and New Orleans Film Festival; British by the Grace of God, which premiered at Locarno Film Festival and won Best International Short at Valladolid Film Festival; How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom, which premiered in Best Student Shorts at Hamptons Film Festival and BFI London's 'Dare' section; and Kingdom Come, which premiered at Venice International Film Festival, won the International Jury Award at Stockholm Film Festival, and earned a London Critics' Circle Award nomination.

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Currently, she is working on several projects: she recently completed Carousel (Part 1), starring Olivia Washington and Phumzile Sitole, the first installment of a three-part short film collection, with Part 2 in pre-production. She is developing a feature screenplay, Without, and also serving as editor for the BBC/BFI-backed feature The Life and Times of Sir Douglas Weatherford, starring Peter Mullen.

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She is an alum of the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive Lab and a recipient of a Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellowship. Additionally, she currently works as a full-time lecturer in screenwriting at Yale University.