Biography

Ashvin was the youngest and is the only Indian Oscar nominee for his live action short 'Little Terrorist' which, also nominated for European Film Academy Awards, honorable mention at BAFTA/LA, winning twenty-four first/best film prizes of the over two hundred film festivals it was invited to around the world.

He is a two time national award winner for his Kashmir series - Inshallah, Football and Inshallah, Kashmir, has among other credits 'Road to Ladakh' (starring Irrfan Khan), 'Dazed in Doon', 'The Forest' (Jaaved Jaffery), and a UNHCR commissioned documentary on migration, 'I Am Not Here'. His films are now available on Netflix and Amazon Prime.

His latest project as writer, director and producer is 'No Fathers in Kashmir', a Sundance Lab/Mumbai Mantra 2014 & Asia Pacific Screen Academy grant winning screenplay of a feature film, the last of a trilogy set based in the Kashmir valley.

Ashvin began working as a director in theatre, and founded one of the first digital post-production studios in India in 1996. Ashvin is a voting member of the European Film Academy.
- IMDb mini biography by: Urvi Vora