Sandhya Daisy Sundaram is an award-winning writer-director based in Mumbai, India.

An alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India, Sandhya has directed television and digital commercials for various brands like Whisper, HP, Trivago, Kellogg’s. She has also worked as a writer for leading studios like Eros International and Balaji Motion Pictures, also having co-written the Applause-Hotstar Series, Criminal Justice Season 1. Besides this, Sandhya has written three independent features which she wishes to develop and direct, which have also participated at NFDC Screenwriters’ Lab, Film Bazaar India and Fest Pitching Forum, Portugal. Her most recognised work is the short creative documentary ‘Love. Love. Love.’, which won the prestigious Jury Award at Sundance 2014 and qualified for an Oscar consideration.

Awards & Festivals

 

Angangba Lei [Scarlet Red Flowers], Documentary, 13min, 2016

SELECTION

  • International Festival Signes De Nuit, France 2016

  • Indian Film Festival, Prague 2016

  • Le Mup One Day Short, 2016

  • Alpavirama Asian Short and Documentary Film Festival, India 2016

Songs We Wrote, Fiction, 22min, 2014

AWARD

  • Best Audiography, Pune International Film Festival, India 2015

SELECTION

  • A Long Week of Short Films, China 2015

  • International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala, India 2015

Love. Love. Love., Documentary, 12min, 2013

AWARD

  • Best Short Documentary, Chicago International Film Festival, USA 2014

  • Special Jury Award for Non-Fiction, Sundance Film Festival, USA 2014

  • Best Short Film, Milwaukee Film Festival, USA 2014

  • Best Editing, Pune Short Film Festival, India 2014

  • Grand Jury Prize, Festival Les Percéides, Canada 2014

  • Best Short Film, Dvijenie Film Festival, Russia 2014

  • Jury Honorable Mention, Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, USA 2014

  • Honorable Mention-Documentary Short, Nashville Film Festival, USA 2014

  • Best Documentary, One Voice International Film Festival, UK 2013

SELECTION

  • Documentary Shorts Night, Northwestern University, USA 2015

  • Chicago South Asian Film Festival, USA 2015

  • Eastern Breeze International Film Festival, Canada 2015

  • Chalchitra Film Festival (MSU Baroda), India 2015

  • Artfix, London 2015

  • Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia 2014

  • Visions Du Reel, Switzerland 2014

  • Pune Short Film Festival, India 2014

  • 24fps International Short Film Festival, USA 2014

  • 12th Tofifest - International Film Festival, Poland 2014

  • Filmi Toronto's South Asian FF, Canada 2014

  • Crested Butte Film Festival, USA 2014

  • 2014 CNEX Documentary Film Festival, Taiwan 2014

  • Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, UK 2014

  • Nevada City Film Festival, USA 2014

  • Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival, Canada 2014

  • Molise Cinema Festival, Italy 2014

  • 12th Tabor International Short Film Festival, Croatia 2014

  • Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA 2014

  • 61st Sydney Film Festival, Australia 2014

  • Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia 2014, Japan 2014

  • Huesca International Film Festival, Spain 2014

  • Kaliber35: Munich International Short Film Festival, Germany 2014

  • Big Sur International Short Film Festival, USA 2014

  • Salón Internacional de la Luz, Colombia 2014

  • 40th Seattle International Film Fest, USA 2014

  • 16th International Eskisehir Film Festival, Turkey 2014

  • Sundance London Film and Music Festival 2014, UK 2014

  • Bratford International Film Festival, UK 2014

  • Darklight Film Festival, Ireland 2014

  • IAWRT Film Festival, India 2014

  • 2014 Angkor Wat International Film Festival, Cambodia 2014

  • Kanyakumari International Film Festival, India 2013

  • Hangzhou Asian Film Festival, China 2013

  • 8th Vilnius Film Shorts, Lithuania 2013

  • Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq 2013

  • ARTDOCFEST, Russia 2013

The Drowning Song, Music Video, 6min, 2013

AWARD

  • Best Music Video, International Documentary & Short Film Festival Kerala, India 2013

  • Excellence in Music Video, Kanyakumari International Film Festival, India 2013

Do Re Mi Fa, Fiction, 11min, 2012

AWARD

  • Best Editing, Filmsaaz Student Festival, India 2013

SELECTION

  • International Film Festival of India, India 2014

  • First Frame Film Festival, India 2013

  • Short and Documentary Film Festival, India 2013

  • Skena Up International Students Film Festival, Kosovo 2012

  • Con I Minuti Contati International Short Film Festival, Italy 2013

  • BRICS International Short Film Festival, India 2012

  • Kalpanirjhar International Short Film Festival, India 2012

  • Kolhapur International Film Festival, India 2012

  • Pune Short Film Festival, India 2012