Shrihari Sathe is an Independent Spirit Award-winning producer. Sathe produced Jaron Henrie-McCrea’s?Pervertigo, which world premiered at the 2012 Warsaw and Mumbai film festivals and was a part of the 2011 IFP Independent Filmmaker Labs. Sathe’s follow up production, Eliza Hittman’s?It Felt Like Love, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam to great reviews. Sathe is a 2013 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow and has received fellowships from the HFPA, PGA, IFP, Film Independent, and The Sundance Institute, to name a few. He is a Gotham Award nominee. Sathe is a Trans Atlantic Partners fellow (2013) and a Cannes Producer’s Network fellow (2014, 2015, 2016). He is a co-producer on Partho Sen-gupta’s?Arunoday?(Sunrise), which world premiered at the 2014 Busan International Film Festival, and Afia Nathaniel’s?Dukhtar (Daughter), which world premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and was Pakistan's Official Submission for Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards?. Sathe’s feature directorial debut –?Ek Hazarachi Note (1000 Rupee Note)?– won the Special Jury Award and the Centenary Award for Best Film at the 2014 International Film Festival of India and has received over 30 awards. Sathe?produced Elisabeth Subrin’s?A Woman, A Part,?which world premiered at the 2016 International Film Festival Rotterdam. He?co-produced Anthony Onah’s?The Price,?which world premiered at 2017 SXSW, and Eliza Hittman’s?Beach Rats, a 2018 Sundance Film Festival winner. Sathe's production of?Bassam Jarbawi’s?Screwdriver (Mafak)?had its world premiere at 2018 Giornate Degli Autori in Venice, and his production of?Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam’s?The Sweet Requiem?world premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, where?Screwdriver?had its North American premiere. Sathe's production of Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo's?Slow Machine?had its North American premiere at the 2020 New York Film Festival. He is currently in post-production on Jamie Sisley's?Stay Awake?and Francisca Alegria's?The Cow that Sang a Song about the Future. Sathe's latest production of Mostofa Farooki's?No Land's Man?will world premiere at the 2021 Busan International Film Festival. In 2016, Sathe received the Cinereach Producer Award. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor and a Senior Production Advisor at Columbia University School of the Arts. Sathe is a member of the Producers Guild of America, Indian Motion Picture Producers Association, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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This is Who We Are: Shrihari Sathe
This Is Who We Are?is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making during a pandemic.
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'Stay Awake' Receives Special Jury Mention in Berlin International Film Festival
Stay Awake, written and directed by alumnus?Jamie Sisley?'15 and produced by alumnus, Adjunct Professor and Senior Production Advisor?Shrihari Sathe?'09 received a special mention from the Generation 14plus youth jury.
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Four Film Alumni Invited to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced its list of 2021 invitees, and four Film alumni are among them. Ben Odell '04 (Overboard, How to Be a Latin Lover) and Adjunct Professor Shrihari Sathe '09 (The Sweet Requiem, It Felt Like Love) have both been invited to join the Producer's Branch, Cherien Dabis '04 (May in the Summer, Amreeka) has been invited to join the Director's Branch, and Angela Tucker '05 (Belly of the Beast, (A)Sexual) has been invited to join the Documentary Branch.
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Numerous Filmmakers Screened Films at Heartland Film Festival
Several Columbia filmmakers screened films at the?2019 Heartland Film Festival?earlier this month.
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On A Global Scale: A Conversation with Shrihari Sathe
On A Global Scale is a bi-weekly series about international co-productions by Columbia filmmakers.
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Columbia Filmmakers Head to Sundance and Slamdance
Columbia University continues to have strong representation at prestigious film festivals this year.
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FilmThis is Who We Are: Shrihari Sathe
This Is Who We Are?is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making during a pandemic.
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'Stay Awake' Receives Special Jury Mention in Berlin International Film Festival
Stay Awake, written and directed by alumnus?Jamie Sisley?'15 and produced by alumnus, Adjunct Professor and Senior Production Advisor?Shrihari Sathe?'09 received a special mention from the Generation 14plus youth jury.
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Four Film Alumni Invited to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced its list of 2021 invitees, and four Film alumni are among them. Ben Odell '04 (Overboard, How to Be a Latin Lover) and Adjunct Professor Shrihari Sathe '09 (The Sweet Requiem, It Felt Like Love) have both been invited to join the Producer's Branch, Cherien Dabis '04 (May in the Summer, Amreeka) has been invited to join the Director's Branch, and Angela Tucker '05 (Belly of the Beast, (A)Sexual) has been invited to join the Documentary Branch.
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Numerous Filmmakers Screened Films at Heartland Film Festival
Several Columbia filmmakers screened films at the?2019 Heartland Film Festival?earlier this month.
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On A Global Scale: A Conversation with Shrihari Sathe
On A Global Scale is a bi-weekly series about international co-productions by Columbia filmmakers.
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Columbia Affiliates Head to the Tribeca Film Festival
Columbia University’s School of the Arts has an extraordinary presence at the Tribeca Film Festival this year with films from current students, alumni, and faculty all represented.
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Columbia Filmmakers Head to Sundance and Slamdance
Columbia University continues to have strong representation at prestigious film festivals this year.
? Sumedh Sawant
Senior Production Advisor, Film
Adjunct Associate Professor, Film
Film Alumnus 2009