Anand Gandhi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Anand Gandhi

Indian film director

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1980

Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Profession: screenwriter, film director, film producer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Anand Gandhi

  • Anand Gandhi (born Anand Modi, 26 September 1980) is an Indian filmmaker, entrepreneur, media producer, innovator and systems researcher.
  • He is also the founder/CEO of the Mumbai-based new media studio and systems think tank Memesys Culture Lab.
  • His debut feature film Ship of Theseus (2013), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival won the National Film Award for Best Picture.Gandhi's second film (as a creative director, executive producer and co-writer) 'Tumbbad' opened the Critics' Week at the 75th Venice Film Festival, released to a wide critical acclaim in October 2018.
  • It was presented by the filmmaker Aanand L.
  • Rai. In 2017, he produced An Insignificant Man – a nonfiction thriller directed by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla on the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party in India.
  • It was released to widespread international and domestic acclaim.
  • The film was picked up by Vice for International distribution.Actor and producer Ajay Devgn bought rights to Gandhi's play Beta Kaagdo.
  • It is being made into a feature film titled 'Helicopter Eela', starring Bollywood actress Kajol.
  • Gandhi is also the co-creator of ElseVR, India’s first virtual reality (VR) platform aiming to bring “extraordinary and urgent stories” to the digital mainstream. Gandhi delivered his INK Talk at the annual INK conference in 2013 where he enumerated his motivations behind making films while expounding on the role of memes in choice-creation.
  • He was a mentor at the Xprize Visioneers 2016 Summit, an annual gathering of the Xprize enterprise, a leading global non-profit dedicated to encouraging “radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity” through incentivized prize competitions.While on the steering committee of the 48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Gandhi served as the creative director of the new VR chapter of the festival.

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