Sathe is the recipient[3] of the 2016 Cinereach Producer Award. He is a Trans Atlantic Partners fellow – 2013 and Cannes Producer's Network fellow – 2014, 2015, 2016.[3] His selected short film credits include Breaking the Chain, Golden Palm Award winner at Mexico International Film Festival (2010), First Day of Peace, Grand Jury Prize winner at Slamdance Film Festival (2010) and Off Season, a BAFTA (2010) nominee.[4] Sathe is a member of the Producers Guild of America, Indian Motion Picture Producers Association and Film Writers Association (India).[5]
Shrihari Sathe was born in 1983 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.[4][6] He did his schooling at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and then moved to US at the age of 17.[6] Sathe majored in Film and Video Studies and Global Media and Culture from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also has an MFA-Film Degree from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in New York.[4] In 2007, he took a short sabbatical to assist Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra on his film Delhi-6. He spent almost a year working on that film and then returned to NYC to finish the degree.[7]
His production house, Infinitum Productions, works out of Mumbai and New York.[4] His father, Chandrashekhar Shrikrishna Sathe, worked in the banking industry for over 30 years, retired in 2009 and he decided to join work with Shrihari. They now closely develop projects. And his father finances his productions.[6]
Hector Medina, Leslie Cohen and Shrihari Sathe at the Closing Night Awards at Olympia Theater for Miami Film Festival Closing on 11 March 2017The 45th International Film Festival of India 2014[8]
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