Nandini Rao

History

A graduate from the University of Nottingham and the Oxford School of Drama, Nandini Rao is a screenwriter and a movie director from Bangalore, India. In 2021, she participated in and was declared the winner of the CANNESFILMS Unlimited writing residency, a program organised by Vivendi, Canal+, The Black List and the Université Côte d'Azur with the aim of nurturing the next generation of screenwriters. In 2022, she wrote and co-directed the animated short film Spirit of the Forest with a grant received from the National Geographic Society.

Movies

Spirit of the Forest

Writer

A little girl stumbles into a sacred grove near her village in south India. She disturbs the spirit of the forest, who takes her on an adventure to illuminate the origins of this ancient swampland.

Spirit of the Forest

Producer

A little girl stumbles into a sacred grove near her village in south India. She disturbs the spirit of the forest, who takes her on an adventure to illuminate the origins of this ancient swampland.

Spirit of the Forest

Director

A little girl stumbles into a sacred grove near her village in south India. She disturbs the spirit of the forest, who takes her on an adventure to illuminate the origins of this ancient swampland.

Image

Production Assistant

Disillusioned shoe salesgirl Sonja didn't expect to stumble upon love in a photobooth. Nor did she expect that, as she started to open up more and more to her partner Karl, the image she was so used to projecting to the world - and herself - would be called into question...

London Life

Gauri

Movie about the the hardship faced by South Asian students arriving in the UK.