Radha Bharadwaj is an Indian-born American
filmmaker
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,
film producer and
screenwriter
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based in
Los Angeles
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.
Early life
She moved to the
United States
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in her late teens to study film.
Career
Bharadwaj's screenwriting and directing feature debut is ''
Closet Land''. The surreal psychological drama was released by
Universal Pictures
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in 1991, making Radha Bharadwaj the first director of Indian descent to have a film released by a major
Hollywood studio. ''Closet Land'' stars
Alan Rickman and
Madeleine Stowe.
Ron Howard and
Brian Grazer produced the feature. The screenplay for ''Closet Land'' won the
Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship sponsored by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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, among others.
Bharadwaj's second feature was the 1998
Victorian gothic mystery, ''
Basil''. The period thriller, set in the
United Kingdom
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, stars
Derek Jacobi,
Christian Slater,
Jared Leto
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and
Claire Forlani. The director's cut for ''Basil'' was twice selected to be the closing night film for the Special Presentation series at the
Toronto International Film Festival
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, and chosen for a prime slot at the
Los Angeles Film Festival.
[ The film was also acclaimed at the American Film Market.][
]
Filmography
As director
* '' Closet Land'' (1991)
* '' Basil'' (1998)
* ''Delilah'' (1999)
References
External links
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Indian women film directors
Indian women film producers
American women film producers
Indian women screenwriters
Indian emigrants to the United States
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women