Who is Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prix award at the 2024 Cannes?
Filmmaker Payal Kapadia on Saturday scripted history as her spellbinding drama All We Imagine as Light won the Grand Prix award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
The film bagged the award, which is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d’Or, during the closing ceremony of the 77th edition
Back in 2015, when actor-politician Gajendra Chauhan was appointed as FTII's president, she led a four-month long protest against the appointment. This led to the cancellation of her scholarship and a FIR against her
Born in Mumbai in 1986 to painter and video artist Nalini Malani, Kapadia went to Rishi Valley School, a boarding school in Andhra Pradesh
She then went on to study film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, where she was selected on her second attempt in 2012
Kapadia’s feature directorial debut, which screened on Thursday night and has received glowing reviews in the international press, already registered its name in the history books
All We Imagine as Light , a Malayalam-Hindi feature, is about Prabha, a nurse, who receives an unexpected gift from her long estranged husband that throws her life into disarray
CANNES 2024: HOW PAYAL KAPADIA, CHHAYA KADAM, ANASUYA SENGUPTA MADE HISTORY