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Click on names to view individual bios:
Rehana Mirza, Writer/Director
Rohi Mirza Pandya, Producer
Gitesh Pandya, Executive Producer
Deep Katdare, Executive Producer/Actor
Vijay Vaidyanathan, Executive Producer
Renato Falcao, A.B.C. Director of Photography
Michelle Botticelli, Editor
Samrat Chakrabarti, Composer
Meetu Chilana, Associate Producer
Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Kavita Gupta, Associate Producers
Arati Nath, Production Designer
Graphic Design: Nilou Moochhala, Nymdesign
Filmmakers & Crew
Rehana Mirza, Director & Writer
Rehana Mirza is a screenwriter, playwright and director. HIDING DIVYA marks her feature film debut. Mirza, 29, is co-founder (with her sister Rohi Mirza Pandya) and Artistic Director of Desipina & Company, a South Asian and Asian-American arts company promoting cross-pollination in theatre and film.
Rehana has written and directed seven short films: the award-winning Modern Day Arranged Marriage, (NBC Short Cuts Audience Award; LOGO short film feature; featured in over thirty international film festivals), Love Story, Ode to NYC, Looking Good, Feeling Better, Memory & Dream, Fillum Star: The Peter Patel Story, Sightlines and Dear Santa. Her feature screenwriting credits include There’s Something About Marriage (IFP Emerging Narrative Selection), Tiger Meat, Paradise, Quarter Life Crisis, and Far from Home (Sundance Feature Film Labs Finalist).
Her debut full-length play, Barriers, premiered at HERE Arts Center in New York City to sold-out audiences before being co-produced by the Asian American Theatre Company in San Francisco/Los Angeles. Other stage plays have been presented in New York (Culture Project, EST, The Flea, Tenement Museum, DR2Lounge), Los Angeles (Artwallah), Toronto (Rasik Arts), Philadelphia (Asian American Centre) and Washington, D.C. (Arth).
Mirza received a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council artist grant for HIDING DIVYA and was a 2002 Independent Feature Project trainee. She was a Leopold Schepp Foundation Scholar, John Golden Award Recipient, and is published by Alexander Street Press. She has been recently selected as a P2 for a Cause Recipient to shoot a PSA regarding Thalassemia in the South Asian and Asian communities. A member of the Ma-Yi Theatre Writer's Lab, Mirza graduated with honors from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dramatic Writing and a minor in Asian Pacific American Studies. She has an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.
Rehana has written and directed seven short films: the award-winning Modern Day Arranged Marriage, (NBC Short Cuts Audience Award; LOGO short film feature; featured in over thirty international film festivals), Love Story, Ode to NYC, Looking Good, Feeling Better, Memory & Dream, Fillum Star: The Peter Patel Story, Sightlines and Dear Santa. Her feature screenwriting credits include There’s Something About Marriage (IFP Emerging Narrative Selection), Tiger Meat, Paradise, Quarter Life Crisis, and Far from Home (Sundance Feature Film Labs Finalist).
Her debut full-length play, Barriers, premiered at HERE Arts Center in New York City to sold-out audiences before being co-produced by the Asian American Theatre Company in San Francisco/Los Angeles. Other stage plays have been presented in New York (Culture Project, EST, The Flea, Tenement Museum, DR2Lounge), Los Angeles (Artwallah), Toronto (Rasik Arts), Philadelphia (Asian American Centre) and Washington, D.C. (Arth).
Mirza received a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council artist grant for HIDING DIVYA and was a 2002 Independent Feature Project trainee. She was a Leopold Schepp Foundation Scholar, John Golden Award Recipient, and is published by Alexander Street Press. She has been recently selected as a P2 for a Cause Recipient to shoot a PSA regarding Thalassemia in the South Asian and Asian communities. A member of the Ma-Yi Theatre Writer's Lab, Mirza graduated with honors from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dramatic Writing and a minor in Asian Pacific American Studies. She has an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.
