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.
Festivals
Kingdom Come
VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, ITALY, 2019
Kingdom Come
STOCKHOLM FILM FESTIVAL, SWEDEN, 2019

How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom
BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL, UK, 2018
Lostfound
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2017
How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom
HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2018

Lostfound
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, USA, 2017
British by the Grace of God
LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL, SWITZERLAND, 2017
British by the Grace of God
BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL, UK, 2017
British by the Grace of God
VALLADOLID INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, SPAIN, 2017

British by the Grace of God
BRNO 16 SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2017
Absent
HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2017

British by the Grace of God
ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL, CROATIA, 2017

Lostfound
CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2016
Absent
NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2017
Absent
ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2017
Lostfound
NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2016
Lostfound
HARLEM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2016
The Rabbit
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTSFEST, USA, 2015
Lostfound
FEMINIST BORDER ARTS FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2017

Lostfound
CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2016
The Rabbit
LONDON INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL, UK, 2015

The Rabbit
INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES, USA, 2015

Fellowships
Fellow
SUNDANCE SCREENWRITERS INTENSIVE LAB, 2016
Fellow
HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION FELLOWSHIP, 2014-2015