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Swetha Regunathan

Swetha Regunathan is a writer and filmmaker based in NYC. Her series THE ACADEMY was a finalist for the 2016 Sundance New Voices Lab, and her short HASIM OCTOBER was shortlisted for a 2017 Lexus Short Films Award. The film also screened at the Indie Street Film Festival, Chicago South Asian Film Festival, New Cinema Club, and premiered on NoBudge in June 2019. Most recently she produced IF THERE IS LIGHT, a short documentary about a family living in a shelter in NYC; the film premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Her short script FOREVER TONIGHT won the 2019 BlueCat Screenplay Competition and was a finalist for the 2019 Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition. It is currently in post-production.

SLOAN-AWARDED FILMS

2019