Shakti Bhagchandani

Shakti Bhagchandani is the first filmmaker from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to have achieved international success. She received her BA in English from King's College London, before traveling to NYC to pursue her MFA in Screenwriting/Directing at Columbia University. Her films have played at the Sundance Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music Cinematek, Chicago International Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Shortfest, and others. She is an alum of the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive Lab and a recipient of a Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellowship.