Payal KAPADIA

Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai based filmmaker and artist. She studied Film Direction at the Film & Television Institute of India. Her work deals with that which is not easily visible, hidden somewhere in the folds of memory and dreams. It is between minor, ephemeral feminine gestures where she tries to find the truth that makes up her practice. Her film, Afternoon Clouds premiered at Cinefondation, 2017. Her experimental documentary And What is the Summer Saying had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale Shorts, 2018). It went on to receive the Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (2018). Kapadia’s experimental short ,The Last Mango Before Monsoon, was premiered at the Oberhausen International Film Festival (2015), where she won the FIPRESCI Prize and Special Jury Prize. The film received other honours, including awards like Best Film and Best Editing at Mumbai International Film Festival (2016). Presently Payal is working on her first feature film ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT, for which she has received the Hubert Bals Bright Futures Fund for Script and Project Development.