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Nidhie Sharma is a India born filmmaker and screenwriter. She is a Film School Graduate from New York who also has a Masters Degree in Business Administration and was a University topper during her Bachelors program majoring in English Literature. She has additionally done an Advanced Screenwriting program from Tisch school of Arts, New York University.

Before taking formal education in Film Direction and Screenwriting, Nidhie spent seven years in the Record label business with Global Music Giant Sony Music and Music Today as a Marketing and Business Development professional but soon she was working very closely on the creative side-with the conceptualization and creation of music videos and also the scouting and Acquisition of Film OSTs.

Coming from a family of Artists there was always encouragement to pursue the Arts. Her mother, Jyoti Sharma who is both a poet and artiste exposed her to literature and visual arts at an early age. Nidhie is the Grand-niece of celebrated Indian filmmaker Kedar Nath Sharma.

From 1997 while still in college uptil 2005, she founded and ran the first professional Book Club in New Delhi at The Indian Habitat Centre. http://www.indiahabitat.org/ihcmedia.html Having a strong writing and analytical background she parallely wrote Book reviews for various newspapers in India and also hosted a ‘Book reviews segment’ for a leading National TV Channel in India.

She has written, directed and edited three short English narrative films, ‘Dont Worry be Happy”, “The three letter word” and the deeply psychological “Awake” all of which were shot on location in New York with an international cast and crew. Her last fiction short “Mask in the Mirror”, written over a single night premiered in New York in 2006. ‘Mask in the Mirror’ played at the India International Film festival in December 2006. Her docu. drama ‘Kids Bank of India’ about working street children in India has been broadcast across US and UK Television Networks in 2008 and received rave reviews.

More recently, Nidhie has written story/treatments for celebrated Indian Directors Lekh Tandon, Rakeysh OmPrakash Mehra and the critically acclaimed Director Sudhir Mishra. She has also produced and Directed non-fiction content for San Francisco based broadcaster Current TV. Her Boutique Production company Felicity Entertainment produces niche and novel content for the US and UK markets. She is also a Managing Partner on Pyxis Motion Pictures.

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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2273398/ www.nidhiesharmafilms.com