User:Archana Phadke/sandbox

Born in 1986 in Mumbai, India, Archana Phadke is a is an alumni of the Berlinale Talent campus and a National award winner. Her short film as a Director, “Uski Baarish” (2013) was screened at various international film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, Aspen Shorts Fest, Toronto International Film Festival (KIDS), Seattle International Film Festival and 34 others. She has Produced and Edited, feature-length documentary Placebo. Placebo was an Indo-Finnish co-production premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), 2014, where it won the jury nomination for Best Film in First Appearance Category. She has Co-edited the film “Raghu Rai, An Unframed Portrait” – Winner of IDFA Europe fund and Winner of Best International Pitch at Asian Side of the Doc and which had its premiere at IDFA 2017 (Mid length Competition). Her debut film as director “About Love” premiered at the Sheffield Doc fest in June 2019, where it won the New Talent Award. The film also won the Best film Asian Perspective award at DMZ Docs 2019, and Best film at the Hainan Island International Film Festival.