Deepti Kakkar

Deepti Kakkar is an Indian producer and director who produced and co-directed Katiyabaaz, a documentary on energy theft in India that received the National Award for Best Documentary – Investigative in 2014. The documentary had its world debut at the renowned Berlin International Film Festival and has since been screened in 50 festivals on five continents. At the Mumbai Film Festival, it also received the Best Indian Film award. FC Chechnya, a documentary on Chechen asylum seekers in Carinthia, Austria, was produced by her. Deepti was born in Delhi in 1986; she graduated from St Stephen College in 2006, then went on to study MA Global Studies History of Globalization at the University of Vienna (2007-2009), then the University of Leipzig, and finally Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Deepti collaborated with Fahad when they were both undergraduate students at St. Stephen's College in Delhi and began creating films together. They then relocated to Vienna, where they worked with the United Nations and were active in various other activities. However, they continued to collaborate on films and established Globalistan Films as a production business. As a result, this has always been a shared passion for the two of us.

She was an associate producer on Netflix's " Leila Leila is an Indian dystopian drama web series in H >> Read More... ," a Hindi-language dystopian drama web series directed by Deepa Mehta Deepa Mehta makes such pretty movies, when watchin >> Read More... , Shanker Raman Shanker Raman is a renowned Indian cinematographer >> Read More... , and Pawan Kumar  Pawan Kumar is a Kannada film and TV director, ac >> Read More... in 2019. Leila is based on Prayaag Akbar's 2017 novel of the same name, and it tells the tale of Shalini, who is searching for her lost daughter under a totalitarian society. She has also contributed to Netflix's newest series, "My Love: Six Stories of True Love," in which six long-married couples from across the world reveal their decades-long love in these touching portraits shot over a year. Deepti Kakkar directed the Indian part of the six-episode Netflix series.