‏Sudhanshu Saria‏

Born in the tea estates of Darjeeling, India, award-winning filmmaker Sudhanshu Saria earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film and Photography from Ithaca College in New York.

His previous film work has premiered festivals such as Hollyshorts and Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, taken him to Berlinale Talent Campus and been featured on NPR and Good Morning America.

His most recent short, HIS NEW HANDS, had its world premiere in competition at the 2014 Hong Kong International Film Festival, and was awarded the prestigious Remi Gold Prize for Best Dramatic Short at the WorldFest-Houston International Festival and the Best Film prize at Flyway Film Festival. It was also screened at more than twenty-five film festivals around the world including Sarasota, Omaha, Heartland Film Festivals and the Chennai International Film Festival.

LOEV, his feature writing and directing debut, world premiered in competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and has since screened at several prestigious film festivals like SXSW, BFI Flare, Jeonju, and Frameline besides winning the Audience Award for Best Feature at the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival.

I AM HERE, his second feature-length screenplay, was selected for the International Film Finance Forum at the Toronto International Film Festival, and is in pre-production.