Payal Kapadia (filmmaker)

Payal Kapadia (born 4 January 1986)^[1] is an Indian filmmaker. In 2017, her short film Afternoon Clouds was the only Indian film selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival.^[2] In 2021, she won the Golden Eye award for best documentary film at the 74th Cannes Film Festival for her debut feature A Night of Knowing Nothing .^{[3] [4] [5]}

In 2024, she won the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for her fiction feature debut All We Imagine as Light .^{[6] [7]} It also earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.^[8]

Payal Kapadia was born in Mumbai on 4 January 1986^{[1] [9]} to painter and video artist Nalini Malani and psychoanalyst Shailesh Kapadia.^{[10] [better source needed ]}

Kapadia went to Rishi Valley School, a boarding school in Andhra Pradesh. Here she had her first exposure to avant-garde filmmakers like Ritwik Ghatak and Andrei Tarkovsky, as she was part of the school's film club. She studied at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai,and also earned a one-year master's degree from Sophia College for Women.^[11]

She then went on to study film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India,^[12] where she was selected on her second attempt in 2012. In between for five years she worked in Mumbai, in advertising and assisting a video artist.^[11]

In 2017, Kapadia's short film Afternoon Clouds was the only Indian film selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival.^[13]

In 2021, she won the Golden Eye award for best documentary film at the 74th Cannes Film Festival for her debut feature A Night of Knowing Nothing .^{[14] [15] [16]}

In 2024, Kapadia won the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for her fiction feature debut All We Imagine as Light .^{[17] [18]} It also earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director,^[8] and was a special feature in the Limelight section of the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it will be screened on 30 January 2025.^[19]

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