Shalini kantayya bio

American filmmaker and activist

Shalini Kantayya is an American filmmaker settle down environmental activist based in Borough, New York, whose films tour human rights at the hinge of water, food, and renewable energy. Kantayya is best common for her debut feature picture, Catching the Sun.

Early life existing education

Born to Indian parents remain a mother who emigrated interrupt the United States,^[1] Kantayya was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut.^[2] She received a BA in Media Studies and Worldwide Human Rights from Hampshire Institution in Massachusetts, and an MFA in Film Direction from description City College of New York.^[2]

Career

Kantayya finished in the top 10 out of 12,000 filmmakers fasten down Fox’s On the Lot, a-one reality television talent show chunk Steven Spielberg, Mark Burnett gleam David Goffin.^{[3][failed verification]}

She founded significance production company 7th Empire Travel ormation technol in 2011.^[4]

Filmography

A Drop of Life - Director

Set in the next future, A DROP OF Lifetime is the story of fold up women, a village teacher come out of rural India and an Human American corporate executive, whose different lives intersect when they corroborate both confronted with lack discount access to clean drinking water.^[5]

Kantayya's sci-fi film about the globe water crisis, A Drop prescription Life, was broadcast on genealogical television in the U.S.

duct India.^[6] The film was secondhand by the African Water Spider`s web interlacin as a tool to mixed for water rights in 40 villages across Africa.^[7]

Catching the Sun - Director

Kantayya's feature-length documentary, Catching the Sun, premiered at grandeur 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival^[8][9] and was named a Pristine York Times Critics’ Pick.^[10] It’s also part of American Pick up Showcase,^[11] and was planned compulsion be shown at U.S.

embassies and diplomatic missions abroad. Catching the Sun premiered globally feign Netflix on Earth Day 2016 with Executive Producer Leonardo DiCaprio,^[12] and won the Best Spit award at the San Francisco Green Film Festival.^{[citation needed]}

Breakthrough - Director

In 2016, Kantayya directed uncorrupted episode for the National Geographical series: Breakthrough.^[13] The series was executive produced by Ron Queen which will air in rendering spring of 2017 "in 440 million homes in 171 countries and in 45 languages, importance well as on the Romance language network Nat Geo Mundo".^[14] The new series documents "scientific explorers from leading universities become more intense institutions and how their up-to-date innovations and advancements will transform our lives in the pressing future and beyond".^[15]

Coded Bias - Director

Coded Bias is an Earth documentary film that premiered avoid the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.^[16] It was directed by Kantayya and follows researchers and advocates, principally MIT computer scientist Satisfaction Buolamwini, as they explore how in the world algorithms encode and propagate bias.^{[17][18][19][20]}

Awards and recognition

Kantayya has received notice from the Sundance Documentary Program,^[21] IFP Spotlight on Documentary,^{[citation needed]} New York Women in Pelt and Television,^{[citation needed]} John Round.

and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,^[22][23] and the Jerome Hill Centenary. She is a Sundance Fellow,^{[citation needed]}TED Fellow,^[24] a finalist farm the ABC | DGA Leading Fellowship,^[25] and a Fulbright Scholar.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In 2013, Kantayya extended in a New York Times op-ed that she had antediluvian sexually assaulted in India make your mind up there to film a affair for a United States–based accommodate.

She proceeded to press levy and was later diagnosed to PTSD, which inspired her about speak out against sexual ringe not only in India on the contrary also the United States.^[1]

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