Artist Profile
Sohil Vaidya
Sohil is a winner of the prestigious Directors Guild of America (D.G.A) Student Award, 2018 for his thesis film ‘Difficult People’. Difficult People was also nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers Student Heritage Awards. His films have been screened at international film festivals such as the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Palm Springs, Flickers Rhode Island International, Edmonton International, LA Asian Pacific, Dharamshala (DIFF), Kerala (IDSFFK), LA shorts, New York Indian Film Festival and have been acquired by multiple online platforms such as Shorts TV, Omeleto, Discover and Viddsee. Sohil is a BAFTA Fellow for their newcomer’s program in Los Angeles. Sohil is an alum of the University of Southern California (U.S.C) Film School with an M.F.A in Film Directing.
Featured Work
Murmurs of the Jungle
2021, 20mins, India, Documentary
A grandmother tells a story to her grandson about the origins of their remote indigenous village in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra. As the mysterious morning slowly unfolds, spirits wander in the forest and dark secrets buried in time slowly emerge. The trees whisper tales of the Gods and the ancestors. They say that you don’t die. Your spirit assimilates into the jungle. And while civilization, its beliefs, and the cycle of life, death, and rebirth continues, the forest stands eternal. A bridge between the old and the new.
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