Sharad Kant Patel
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Editor
Originally from Texas, Sharad started with audio plays on a cassette recorder and made super-8 films as a child. He has over 25 years professional experience writing, shooting, editing films/commercials/commissions/documentaries, even composing original scores in his home studio. He's worked as alone man band and with talented teams in long term projects.
In 2012, a feature comedy he worked on (Cinematographer, Actor, VFX, Colorist) entitled "Bindlestiffs" won the audience award at Slamdance and was then picked up by distribution by Kevin Smith.
Sharad has screened solo short films at SXSW (Austin) and Raindance (London). He collaborated with painter Shiva Ahmadi on Lotus, an animated short that was exhibited at the Asia Society Museum in New York in 2014. Two more animations followed over the next decade. Through an Aurora Picture Show program, he is collaborating with patients from the children's ward of MD Anderson Cancer Center to create an animated short.
Sharad has served as a short film programmer for the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Slamdance.
In 2015, he completed his first feature, "Somebody's Darling", an independent horror film. He also taught Intermediate Video Art at the University of Houston and film history at Eastern Michigan University.
His 2013 short film "The Bubble" continues to play on a rotating screening slot at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
In 2024 he was accepted into the program at the American Film Institute Conservatory.
In 2012, a feature comedy he worked on (Cinematographer, Actor, VFX, Colorist) entitled "Bindlestiffs" won the audience award at Slamdance and was then picked up by distribution by Kevin Smith.
Sharad has screened solo short films at SXSW (Austin) and Raindance (London). He collaborated with painter Shiva Ahmadi on Lotus, an animated short that was exhibited at the Asia Society Museum in New York in 2014. Two more animations followed over the next decade. Through an Aurora Picture Show program, he is collaborating with patients from the children's ward of MD Anderson Cancer Center to create an animated short.
Sharad has served as a short film programmer for the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Slamdance.
In 2015, he completed his first feature, "Somebody's Darling", an independent horror film. He also taught Intermediate Video Art at the University of Houston and film history at Eastern Michigan University.
His 2013 short film "The Bubble" continues to play on a rotating screening slot at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
In 2024 he was accepted into the program at the American Film Institute Conservatory.
