Shilpa Mankikar is a film writer, director, producer based in New York. Shilpa's work combines a commercial sensibility with provocative content. Her films have won the Planet Out 1st Prize at Sundance and the National Board of Review Award. She is currently in development on three feature film projects. She is a recent graduate of the Columbia MFA Film Program in New York.
In 2001, she was a Co-founder of 3rd I, a national film exhibition network that hosts 106 South Asian diaspora filmmakers per year in the US. Shilpa formerly handled Programming and Outreach for the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Marketing for its affiliate CAAM (formerly NAATA) Distribution. She also managed Acquisitions and Distribution for Hypnotic, Universal Pictures' Short Film & New Media Division. This included acquiring films at festivals, packaging films for internet and cable, testing short films on early Palm Pilots at the 2000 Helsinki Trials, and developing business partnerships with Yahoo and other platforms. Shilpa is a contributor to indieWIRE. Credits include Spike Lee's BAMBOOZLED, DESI: SOUTH ASIANS IN NEW YORK (WNET/Channel Thirteen), and the InDigEnt pilot SAM THE MAN (Dir. Gary Winick).
In 2001, she was a Co-founder of 3rd I, a national film exhibition network that hosts 106 South Asian diaspora filmmakers per year in the US. Shilpa formerly handled Programming and Outreach for the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Marketing for its affiliate CAAM (formerly NAATA) Distribution. She also managed Acquisitions and Distribution for Hypnotic, Universal Pictures' Short Film & New Media Division. This included acquiring films at festivals, packaging films for internet and cable, testing short films on early Palm Pilots at the 2000 Helsinki Trials, and developing business partnerships with Yahoo and other platforms. Shilpa is a contributor to indieWIRE. Credits include Spike Lee's BAMBOOZLED, DESI: SOUTH ASIANS IN NEW YORK (WNET/Channel Thirteen), and the InDigEnt pilot SAM THE MAN (Dir. Gary Winick).
