The Great Artist (Trailer)

The Great Artist Film   

Short version (password Indrani)

The Great Artist  looks at the struggles of mental health through the lens of the art world. Created to destigmatize  and drive LGBTQIA+ and racially inclusive conversations about mental health to help save lives from suicide. 

Hollywood Reporter  selected The Great Artist as one of the "Top 5" contenders for The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film 2021." 

With a diverse cast and crew, actor/writer Matthew Postlethwaite (Peaky Blinders), Emmy-nominated transgender actress Rain Valdez, an original score by American Idol's Pia Toscano, and writer /producer Sunny Vaccher. Directed by Indrani.

With partner nonprofits:  GLAAD, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, National Association of Mental Illnesses (NAMI), National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Movember, Kindred, Tethr, Tramuto Foundation, and Stand with Impact.

Girl Epidemic

CNN Freedom Project 

Directed by and Cinematography by Indrani. Produced by and Cinematography by GK Reid with Project Nanhi Kali and Strawberry Frog. Written by Justin Via.

Girl Epidemic 

Millions of girls are missing in Asia due to child labor, female infanticide, and sex trafficking. Won the CNN Expose 2018 Best Picture Award, and was created in partnership with Anand Mahindra's Nanhi Kali Foundation and ad agency Strawberry Frog.  Its premise: girls are being treated like they're an infectious disease. As a result, over a million disappear every year -- many falling victim to female infanticide, neglect and sex slavery. 

Huffington Post: "Indrani's creative lens, coupled with an impassioned perspective on gender realities in India...[are] powerful and provocative."

Forbes: "Riveting, shocking and touching... Indrani's direction is brilliant and provocative!"

CNN Freedom Project  

Interview with Quincy Jones, Tony Schiena, journalist and editor Leif Coorlim.

Tribeca Film Festival: Disruptive Innovation Award 2019

CNN Expose Award: Best Picture 

Legend of Lady White Snake

A reversal of an ancient Asian legend, with a poem by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Coraline, American Gods).  A snake demoness, having transformed into a NewYorker to experience love, struggles with obsession, time, heteronormative gender-based power dynamics, and transgender metamorphosis. Reverting to her all-consuming nature, she finds unity and redemption through transmigration.  

Directed and Written by Indrani. Executive Produced by and Starring Daphne Guinness. Produced by and Costumes by GK Reid.

Huffington Post  Cator Sparks:    "A magical little film, Guinness shines in this epic tale of love, life and loss." 

Tatler Hong Kong  Arne Eggers:   "A highly conceptualized interpretation... Daphne ignites a Gothic Chinese legend." 

Los Angeles Independent Film Festival:

      Best Picture Award
      Best Production Design Award
      Best Costume Design Award 
      Best Visual Effects Award 

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla Fashion Film Festival 

      Best Picture Award 
      Best Director Award
      Best Costume Design Award 
      Best Visual Effects Award
      RED Epic Camera Award

ASVOFF at Centre Pompidou, Paris:  

      Official Selection

Till Human Voices Wake Us

Directed and Written by Indrani. Starring Lindsay Lohan. Produced by Rick Schwartz (Black Swan, Gangs of New York) Music by Grammy-winning Henri Scars Struck

Reversing T.S. Eliot's Love Song of Alfred Prufrock, Selkies - Celtic mythical creatures that are seals in water and women on land - storm Manhattan to save one of their own, and the oceans. Before mayhem and police brutality awakens the leviathan. 

Los Angeles Independent Film Awards:

     Best Director Award  
     Best Picture Nomination

New York Short Film Festival:    

     Best of New York Award

International Fashion Film Awards:    

    Best Picture Award

Centre Pompidou Paris, ASVOFF (curated by Jean Paul Gaultier): 

     Official Selection

David Bowie: Valentine's Day

Directed by Indrani, Produced by GK Reid, Executive Produced by Markus Klinko

David Bowie: Valentine's Day

and the HBO Movie: The Last Five Years

David Bowie explores the mind of a high school shooter, for the last  single released during his lifetime. The video has inspired considerable debate: Do the shadows of his guitar look like an AK47? Does his pose mirror former NRA president Charlton Heston's "cold dead hands" salute? 

Rolling Stone  Eric Danton:  "Radiates intensity."

NPR  Robin Hilton:  "Thrilling and intense."

The Uncut  Francis Whatley interviewed about the HBO / BBC film tells Michael Bonner: 

"Indrani's video. It is compelling.  I think

Digital Death 

Directed and cinematography by Indrani

Video and stills campaign for families with HIV/AIDS in Africa, won two gold lions at Cannes 

Alecia Keys: New Day

Directed by Indrani, Produced by Good Day

Mero Gaon: My Village 

With Gyetrul Jingme Rinpoche and Ripa Ladrang Foundation. 

Directed by Indrani 

Crescendo: 

Beats of the Beautiful Game

Music by Jetta produced by Pharrell Williams

Nonprofits: Yuwa, Shambali Trust, Shakti Empowerment Education 

Directed, Cinematography, and Written by Indrani Produced by GK Reid

Jezebel  Julianne Escobedo Shepherd: 

"Rad...feminist film director and fashion photographer Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri captured a group of girls (and an elephant!) playing soccer in the streets of Jodhpur. It's jubilant...[with] an underlying feminist message... Inspiring."