LEECHES - Cineffable 2017

Payal SETHI

Payal Sethi is an independent filmmaker who studied film history & production at Vassar College and later, at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She then worked as an assistant to director Mira Nair on several of her productions, including Hysterical Blindness, Vanity Fair and The Namesake. Following this, she held numerous roles within the independent film industry in New York at The Tribeca Film Festival, Independent Feature Project and the Mahindra IAAC Film Festival. Payal made her directorial debut with the short film Grant St. Shaving Co., which won the best film award at The Smalls Film Festival and the Florence River to River Film Festival, and the Silver Palm Award at the Mexico International Film Festival. In 2012, Payal received the Asia Society's New Voices Fellowship for Screenwriters for Panther, a wildlife crime thriller set in Ranthambore & Delhi. She is currently working on her first feature film.

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November 2nd to 5th, 2017

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