Director

Payal Kapadia

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Directed movies: 8Directed series: 0All crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 1467320

IMDb ID: nm10339953

Known for: Directing

Born: January 4, 1986

Age: 40

Place of birth: Mumbai, India

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1944 - 2025

Years active: 82

Average TMDB rating: 7.1

Wikidata: Q107803283

Also known as

Паял Кападия

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Biography

Payal Kapadia (born 4 January 1986) is an Indian filmmaker. She is best known for having won the Golden Eye award for best documentary film at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for her film A Night of Knowing Nothing. In 2017, her film Afternoon Clouds was the only Indian film that was selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival. Born in Mumbai, Kapadia went to Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh. She got a Bachelor's degree in economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She did a one-year Master's degree from Sophia college. She then went on to study film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, where she was selected on her second attempt.