Rohan Kanawade

Rohan comes from a humble background, raised in a one-room house in a Mumbai slum by a chauffeur father and homemaker mother. He is a self-made filmmaker with a background in interior design. His shorts have been screened globally. U Ushacha won him the prestigious Satyajit Ray Short Film Award at London Indian Film Festival 2019.

His first feature Sabar Bonda was developed in Venice Biennale College Cinema 2022-2023 under the working title Arms of a Man. It was also the part of Film London PFM 2021, NFDC Marathi Script camp 2021, Film Bazaar CPM 2022, 80th Venice Gap Financing Market 2023 and Goes To Cannes 2024.