BIO

Shakti Bhagchandani is the first filmmaker from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to have achieved international success. She completed her BA in English Literature at King's College London and her MFA in Film at Columbia University.

She is the first writer/director from the UAE to have work showcased at Sundance Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music Cinematek, BFI London Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, and others.

She is an alum of the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive Lab and a recipient of a Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellowship. Alongside her work as a filmmaker, she is also a professor of screenwriting and directing at Pratt Institute.

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