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Vicky Thomas, Pan Nalin & Priyanka Chopra Jona

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The Academy Party 2023 - Pan Nalin & President of The Academy Janet Yang

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Oscar Shortlist Nominee, Pan Nalin is a writer, director, and producer of fiction and non-fiction movies. He is a self-taught filmmaker who achieved worldwide critical and commercial triumph with his debut feature Samsara (Miramax/Disney).

His latest movie; Last Film Show (Chhello Show) was India's Official Entry to the 95th Oscars. And it went on to win the shortlist nomination from The Academy as the Best International Film at the 95th Oscars.

Pan Nalin's new project Satori Trilogy has been recently optioned by Lucas Foster (Ford vs. Ferrari, Law Abiding Citizen, Jumper, Man on Fire, Mr. and Mrs. Smith...) Satori Trilogy is a high-voltage action-adventure epic about an Asian superhero. Satori Trilogy is now in development, and Lucas Foster is attached to produce it.

Pan Nalin has established himself as a true auteur that adapts to different genres and styles of filmmaking and has made movies in English, French, Hindi, Gujarati, Japanese, and Tibetan.

Pan Nalin's Last Film Show (Samuel Goldwyn Films / Shochiku) won the Best Picture, Golden Spike, at Seminci 66th Valladolid International Film Festival 2021 in Spain, Audience Choice Award First-Runner-up at the Tribeca Film Festival 2021, and Audience Favorite Award at the Mill Valley Film Festival. It also won The Snow Leopard for The Best Picture at the Los Angeles's Asia World Film Festival. The last Film Show is currently being theatrically released worldwide.

Pan Nalin won Audience Choice Award First-Runner-up for Angry Indian Goddesses (Netflix /Mongrel International) at the Toronto International Film Festival and Prix du Public at the Rome Film Festival. Since then Angry Indian Goddesses has been theatrically released in 40 countries and now streaming on Netflix worldwide.

Nalin was born in a remote village near Gir Forest in Gujarat, and he left his home at an early age to pursue filmmaking. He studied Fine Arts at the M.S. University of Baroda, where he adopted his artist's pseudonym "Pan Nalin." A year later Nalin went to study Design at the prestigious NID (National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad). While studying at NID, he discovered cinema beyond Bollywood movies. He saw for the first time Hollywood movies. Soon after he started managing NID's film club where he programmed movies from all over the world. He was one of the first students in the city to write and promote cinema from French New Wave, Italian Neo-Realism, German Expressionism, American Indies, and Hollywood Classics. Also while still at NID, Nalin started making movie clips with 16mm and 8mm cameras. Nalin worked as a videographer on Indian weddings to finance his passion for films.

After NID Nalin moved to Mumbai where he made TV commercials and corporate films. Soon after Nalin combined his love for travel with moviemaking and started filming documentaries for BBC, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Canal Plus, and other leading international TV networks. His multiple award-winning feature documentary Ayurveda Art of Being (Kino / Pandora) was theatrically released worldwide with major success.

But making a debut feature with creative freedom was nearly an impossible task within the structure of the Indian movie industry. So Nalin went around the globe looking for funds for his first feature Samsara. After seven years of struggle, broke and homeless, Nalin was introduced to legendary producer Karl Baumgartner who fell in love with the screenplay of Samsara. Within a year Samsara went on to the floor, and it was produced by Baumgartner's company Pandora Film as a Germany-France-Italy-India coproduction.

Samsara premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and on the same day, Harvey Weinstein acquired the movie for Miramax. Not only that, within the same week Samsara was acquired by 40 other countries. Samsara went on to become a massive commercial and critical success worldwide and won dozens of international awards. To date, it remains the highest-grossing Indian Independent film.

What followed was a first-ever India-Japan-France-Germany coproduction, Valley Of Flowers, where Nalin set out to make an "Eastern" epic love story with an Asian soul. Valley Of Flowers (TF1 International) went on to become a major underground hit with cult, critical and commercial success worldwide. Valley of Flowers was awarded Best Picture at IFFLA Los Angles, also four nominations at IAAC New York, including The Best Picture and The Best Director.

Nalin's feature documentary Faith Connections was an Official Selection at Toronto, won the Audience Choice Award at IFFLA Los Angeles and has been theatrically released worldwide.

Nalin's tragi-comedy screenplay Slightly Sane, won the CJ Entertainment's Award for The Best International Project at Asia Film Market in Busan, South Korea.

Nalin recently completed The Disappearance of Eva Hansen, a spiritual thriller set in the Himalayas. It's the first New Zealand - India coproduction starring David Wenham and Emmanuelle Beart.

Pan Nalin is currently developing English language features and series with Gotham Group in Los Angeles.

Other English language picture in the line-up includes an epic biopic Buddha The Warrior Within. Nalin also created Greeks, a multi-season drama TV series in association with producer Fred Fuchs, which is in development. Nalin has been scripting Paris set spy-thriller Codename: Madeleine inspired by the real-life story of Noor Inayat Khan during WWII.

Pan Nalin has been a member of the Jury at many leading International Film Festivals. Nalin has been often invited to seminars, panel discussions, and conclaves. Nalin has also conducted Masterclasses on film direction and screenwriting.

Pan Nalin is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (Oscars), in its prestigious Director's Branch of Class of 2022. Nalin is also a member of the European Film Academy and the French Academy of Arts and Techniques of Cinema (Cesars) in its coveted Directors wing.

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