Documentary Short
Director/Producer
Renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni studies "what grows back” after a disturbance in the rainforest canopy. After surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, she must turn her research question onto herself to explore the effects of disturbance and recovery throughout her own life.
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2024 Academy Awards Shortlist - Best Documentary Short
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Winner, Best Documentary Short - Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, & The Gold List
Nominated for two Critics Choice Documentary Awards, Cinema Eye Honors, and Shortlisted for the IDA Awards
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Conversation with Marcia Smith
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“Through breathtaking cinematography and dynamic editing, this film sublimely captures the inspirational resilience and bravery of forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni. The filmmaker weaves Nalini's unyielding quest to heal the planet through the trees of the forest with her own journey to face and overcome her own deeply personal trauma.”
– Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Jury
“‘The trees were there as my witness,’ states world-renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni as she reflects on her past, present and future, while she explores and revisits the emotional scars of her childhood, as well as the physical scars from a 2015 fall from a tree. Strength and fragility combine to create something new.”
– Eileen Arandiga, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
“A charming film that will get you to fall in love with life and trees and the wonder of the world.”
– Steve Kopian, Unseen Films
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2023
PBS Documentary Short
In the Making - Season 3
Director
Following the success of her debut novel, All This Could Be Different, author Sarah Thankam Mathews embarks on her second novel, drawing from her adolescence between India and Oman. As Sarah excavates lost place and time, she must contend with the weight of truthful representation and the contradictions within her childhood memories.
Hot Springs Doc Film Fest | 10/22 World Premiere
DOC NYC Fest | 11/19 NYC Premiere
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Featuring: Sarah Thankam Mathews
Director/producer: Andrew Nadkarni
Producer: Maryam Mir
Cinematographer: Anumeha
Editor: Peter Zachwieja
Original Score; Rachika Nayar
Produced in association with Firelight Media and American Masters | PBS.
2024
Director
A series of short documentaries profiling six union teachers across the state of California.
Made in partnership with the California Teachers Union and Counsel Media
2024
Narrative Feature
Producer
Riley, a biracial girl in her final week of college, goes to great lengths to win the affections of a boy from her hometown of Philly, and ends up having to confront her escalating anxieties about her love life, family, and future.
Official Selections: Locarno International Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Jeonju International Film Festival, Taipei Film Festival, Milan Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest
Written & directed by Kit Zauhar
2022
Feature Film
Associate Producer
Based on the best-selling novel. A famous opera singer (Julianne Moore) is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's (Ken Watanabe) lavish birthday party. Unexpected bonds are forged in the standoff that ensues.
Written by Anthony Weintraub & Paul Weitz
Directed by Paul Weitz
2018
Feature Film
Production Supervisor: NY Unit
Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to take on a new case with a variety of suspects.
Written & directed by Rian Johnson
2022
Series
Production Coordinator - S1
Creator and writer Awkwafina (The Farewell, Crazy Rich Asians) stars in the comedy inspired by her real-life growing up in Flushing, Queens. Raised by her Dad (BD Wong) and Grandma (Lori Tan Chinn) alongside her cousin (Bowen Yang), Nora Lin leans on her family as she navigates life and young adulthood.
2019 - 2021
Series
Production Coordinator
An unlikely friendship. A lost love resurfaced. A marriage at its turning point. A date that might not have been a date. An unconventional new family. These are unique stories about the joys and tribulations of love, each inspired by a real-life personal essay from the beloved New York Times column “Modern Love.”
2019 - 2021
Short Film
Producer
The Terrestrials takes place in the near future. In this new age, a device exists that allows psyches to meet in a liminal space to have safe, efficient, and anonymous sexual encounters (think Tinder for your brain). Lucy, our protagonist, is a reserved scientist who has recently been left by a long-time lover. To cope, she uses the device to satisfy her longings for temporary lust and affection. One day, while using the device, the server crashes, leaving Lucy stranded in the virtual world with the challenging, cheating Will, who she's just had sex with. It's only then that Lucy relearns intimacy, touch, and connection.
Best Short Screenplay: Fantasia Film Festival
Official Selection: UN x We Transfer’s HeforShe Festival, Chinese American Film Festival, First Run Festival, Fusion Film Festival, Imagine Science Film Festival, Bushwick Film Festival
Written & directed by Kit Zauhar
2020
Feature Film
Production Coordinator
A young journalist discovers a conspiracy involving a U.S. Presidential candidate that could change the election and the fate of the country.
Written by Evan Parter
Directed by Amy Rice
2022
Short Film
Producer
A ghost story following a high school girl, her oppressive mother, and her quirky, deceased uncle.
Written & directed by Peter Zachweija
Best Narrative Short, Greenpoint Film Festival
2020
Series
Assistant to the Executive Producer - S3-4
What happens behind the curtains at the symphony is just as captivating as what happens on stage. Created by Paul Weitz (About a Boy), Roman Coppola (The Darjeeling Limited), and Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore). Brash new maestro Rodrigo (Gael Garcia Bernal) is stirring things up, and young oboist/aspiring conductor Hailey (Lola Kirke) hopes for her big chance.
2017-2018
Short Film
Producer
A girl is driven to the point of overdosing by her tortured youth and destructive friend group. She must confront her Mother's addictive past and learn how to see the world more clearly before it's too late.
Written & directed by Peter Pascusci
2018
Short Film
Producer
Northshore follows sixteen-year old Larissa Lannigan as she grapples with the aftermath of her best friend’s murder, the first in a series of brutal killings that begin to plague a small-town community. What begins as local tragedy soon escalates into a collective hysteria.
Written & directed by David Fu
2016
Short Film
Producer
Two wandering streams of consciousness come together in a college library.
Winner, Canon Undergrad Film Award: Fusion Film Festival
Official Selection: NFFTY, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Lone Star Film Festival, Unrestricted View Film Festival, High Country Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Showcase, Bobst Film Festival
Written & directed by Kit Zauhar
2017
