Shrihari Sathe

Shrihari Sathe is an Indian filmmaker and producer. Sathe is a 2013 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow.[1] His feature directorial debut, 1000 Rupee Note (Ek Hazarachi Note), won the Special Jury Award and Centenary Award for Best Film at the 2014 International Film Festival of India and has received over 35 awards. He was a member of the jury at the 2017 Miami International Film Festival.[2] Shrihari Sathe received the Producers Award 2019 as part of 34th Independent Spirit Awards.

Shrihari Sathe, Infinitum Productions, at the International Film Festival Rotterdam

Sathe is the recipient[3] of the 2016 Cinereach Producer Award. He is a Trans Atlantic Partners fellow – 2013 and Cannes Producer's Network fellow – 2014, 2015, 2016.[3] His selected short film credits include Breaking the Chain, Golden Palm Award winner at Mexico International Film Festival (2010), First Day of Peace, Grand Jury Prize winner at Slamdance Film Festival (2010) and Off Season, a BAFTA (2010) nominee.[4] Sathe is a member of the Producers Guild of America, Indian Motion Picture Producers Association and Film Writers Association (India).[5]

Biography

Shrihari Sathe was born in 1983 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.[4][6] He did his schooling at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and then moved to US at the age of 17.[6] Sathe majored in Film and Video Studies and Global Media and Culture from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also has an MFA-Film Degree from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in New York.[4] In 2007, he took a short sabbatical to assist Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra on his film Delhi-6. He spent almost a year working on that film and then returned to NYC to finish the degree.[7]

His production house, Infinitum Productions, works out of Mumbai and New York.[4] His father, Chandrashekhar Shrikrishna Sathe, worked in the banking industry for over 30 years, retired in 2009 and he decided to join work with Shrihari. They now closely develop projects.[6]

Shrihari Sathe is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and frequently does master classes at various universities[2] since 2015.

Awards
Shrihari Sathe, receiving the Special jury award at IFFI (2014)

Nominations

Filmography

References
  1. "Michel Franco, Sebastian Cordero, Hector Medina Headline Competition Jury List for Miami Dade College's Acclaimed Miami Film Festival 34th Edition". Miami Film Festival. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  2. "Shrihari Sathe". Miami Film Festival 2017. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  3. "Shrihari Sathe". Tribeca Film Institute. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  4. K, Bhumika (2014-12-09). "Betting a thousand on an indie". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  5. "Alumni Updates | U-M LSA Department of Film, Television, and Media". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  6. "The American prof who's made a movie about India". Rediff. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  7. "Shrihari Sathe On 1000 Rupee Note, His Directorial Debut". The Aerogram. 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  8. "Shrihari Sathe". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  9. Breaking the Chain, retrieved 2019-01-06
  10. Off Season, retrieved 2019-01-06
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