Sharad Kant Patel

Born in Texas, Sharad started with audio plays on a cassette recorder and made super-8 films as a child. Now he works as a one-man production house, writing, shooting, editing films, and composing original scores in his home studio. In 2012, a feature comedy he worked on in multiple creative roles (DP, actor, Color Grader) entitled "Bindlestiffs" won the audience award at Slamdance and was then picked up by distribution by Kevin Smith. Sharad has screened short films at SXSW (Austin) and Raindance (London). He collaborated with painter Shiva Ahmadi on Lotus, an animated short that was exhibited at the Asia Society Museum in New York in 2014. Through an Aurora Picture Show program, he is collaborating with patients from the children's ward of MD Anderson Cancer Center to create an animated short. Sharad has served as a short film pre-screener/programmer for the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Slamdance. In 2015, he completed his first feature, "Somebody's Darling", an independent psychological horror film. He also taught Intermediate Video Art at the University of Houston and is proud that two of his student, upon his encouragement, entered and made it into a local art film festival. His 2013 short film "The Bubble" continues to play on a rotating screening slot at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.