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Jay Parikh is an Award winning Film Producer and Director known for his award winning short film "The Sentinel (2015)" and creator of the very first Gujarati webseries "Varta Re Varta(English: The Story Tales)" (2016-2018).

Early Life
Parikh was born in Vadodara Gujarat India on 9 July 1990. He comes from middle class Gujarati family. His father was banker and mother is a house maker. Parikh has two elder sisters.

Parikh completed his schooling in Gujarati medium. He completed his Bachelor’s in Electronics and communication Engineering from Gujarat University in 2011.

Career
To cope up with his passion for acting after doing multiple theater plays Jay made his first short film in 2009 named “ Ummid “. After that he made 4 more short films named “ final good bye (2010), the safety belt (2011), Zor Ka Zatka (2011), Ehsaas(2012). These films were screened at multiple film festivals and had local screenings.

Jay worked as an assistant director in an Indian television show named “ Shobha Somnath Ki “. He continued his engineering training and worked as an Teaching assistant at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda[MSU].

In 2012 he moved to USA with his family and continued working as an engineer but his passion for filmmaking didn’t let him continue. He pursued diploma in filmmaking from New York Film Academy in 2014 and made an award winning short film The Sentinel (2015). This film received multiple accolades at international film festivals including Special Festival Mention at 6th Dada Saheb Phalke film festival, India in 2016. He then launched, the very first Gujarati webseries “ Varta re Varta” with 4 episodic season 1. In 2018 he launched Season 2 of the webseries with 8 episodes that spoke about Homosexuality from a Girl’s perspective.

Awards and Recognition

 * Best Short film award for The Sentinel (2015) at Hollywood Film Festival 2015
 * Best Short film award for The Sentinel (2015) at Los Angeles Urban Film Festival 2016
 * Special Festival Mention for The Sentinel (2015) at 6th Dada Saheb Film Festival 2016
 * Official Selection of Varta Re Varta Season 2(2018) at Jaipur International Film Festival 2019