Shrihari Sathe is an Indian

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and

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. Sathe is a 2013

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Creative Producing Fellow. His feature directorial debut, ''Ek'' ''Hazarachi'' ''Note'' ''(1000 Rupee Note)'''','' won the Special Jury Award and Centenary Award for Best Film at the 2014

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and has received over 35 awards. He was a member of the jury at the 2017

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. Shrihari Sathe received the Producers Award 2019 as part of

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. Sathe is the recipient of the 2016

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Producer Award. He is a Trans Atlantic Partners fellow – 2013 and Cannes Producer's Network fellow – 2014, 2015, 2016. His selected short film credits include ''Breaking the Chain'', Golden Palm Award winner at Mexico International Film Festival (2010), ''First Day of Peace'', Grand Jury Prize winner at

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(2010) and ''Off Season'', a BAFTA (

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) nominee. Sathe is a member of the

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, Indian Motion Picture Producers Association and

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(India).

Biography

Shrihari Sathe was born in 1983 in

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. He did his schooling at

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and then moved to US at the age of 17. Sathe majored in Film and Video Studies and Global Media and Culture from

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. He also has an MFA-Film Degree from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in New York. In 2007, he took a short sabbatical to assist

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on his film ''

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''. He spent almost a year working on that film and then returned to NYC to finish the degree. His production house, Infinitum Productions, works out of Mumbai and

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. His father, Chandrashekhar Shrikrishna Sathe, worked in the banking industry for over 30 years, retired in 2009 and he decided to join work with Shrihari. They now closely develop projects. And his father finances his productions. Shrihari Sathe is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and frequently does master classes at various universities since 2015.

Awards

: Producers Award 2019 *

Producer Award 2016 (''

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'', ''

Dukhtar ''Dukhtar'' (; ) is a 2014 Pakistani drama-thriller film directed by Afia Nathaniel. The film stars Samiya Mumtaz, Mohib Mirza, Saleha Aref, Asif Khan, Ajab Gul and Samina Ahmad. The film is Afia Nathaniel's feature directorial debut; she also ...

'', ''

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'') *

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: Best film 2015:

Ek Hazarachi Note ''Ek Hazarachi Note'' (1000 Rupee Note) is a 2014 Varhadi and Marathi-language Indian film directed by Shrihari Sathe It stars Usha Naik, Sandeep Pathak and Shrikant Yadav The film was released on 9 May 2014 to positive reviews, and won the Sil ...

* The 45th International Film Festival of India 2014 ** Silver Peacock (Best Film) for "

" ** Centenary Award for "Ek Hazarachi Note" *

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Film Festival: Best producer 2009: Breaking the Chain

Nominations

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'' (Producer in the creative team) 2015 *

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: Audience Award 2014 ''

'' *

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: Off Season

Filmography

* Director **'' 1000 Rupee Note (Ek Hazarachi)'' ''Note)'' 2014 * Producer **'' Stay Awake 2022'' **'' Slow Machine 2020'' **'' Screwdriver (Mafak) 2018'' **'' The Sweet Requiem 2018'' **''

2017 (Co-Producer)'' **''

A Woman, A Part ''A Woman, a Part'' is a 2016 independent drama film, written and directed by Elisabeth Subrin. The story concerns Anna Baskin (Maggie Siff), a successful yet burnt out actress who absconds from a mind-numbing television role in LA to reinvent h ...

2016'' **''

2013'' **''Off Season'' ''2009'' **Breaking the Chain 2009

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sathe, Shrihari Indian film directors Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian film producers University of Michigan alumni Columbia University School of the Arts alumni Columbia University faculty