Writer · Director · Cinematographer
Sahadev Kelvadi is an award-winning Writer, Director and Cinematographer from Bangalore, India. A graduate of the MFA Film Production program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, he brings a global perspective rooted in the textures and stories of his hometown.
He is the co-founder of Ameyukti Studios, an independent production company dedicated to free-spirited storytelling, honesty, and originality. His feature directorial debut, Kenda, is an absurdist political satire that earned critical acclaim.
His work spans feature films, web series, shorts, 3D films, and virtual reality — always united by a commitment to visual storytelling that serves the narrative above all.
Feature films, web series, and short films — each driven by bold visual storytelling.
Writer · Director · Cinematographer
An absurdist crime and political satire about the disenchanted youth of Bengaluru. The film centers on a young man who works in a foundry in a busy metropolis, unflinchingly portraying how the degradation of state machinery threatens social stability and harmony.
Director of Photography · Co-Producer
A high school coming-of-age drama set in 90s Bangalore, following a young girl navigating her complex world. Ameyukti Studios' debut feature film. Premiered at The New York Indian Film Festival, 2019.
Director of Photography
Popular Indian web series starring Ranvir Shorey and Pooja Sawant. An Eros Now Original Series.
Writer · Director · Cinematographer
Over the course of a single day, a young boy peers out from behind a brick wall and watches the man across the street — his stance, his handshakes, the easy power he holds over the corner. Without a word spoken, the child begins to mirror everything he sees: the walk, the posture, the gestures. A four-minute silent film that unfolds like a held breath, revealing the moment innocence quietly learns the wrong lesson.
Director · Cinematographer
Before dawn breaks, a man's hands are already at work — cracked, calloused, shaped by decades of the same quiet labor. He moves through the farm the way the animals know him: by sound, by habit, by the weight of his footsteps on familiar ground. A short documentary portrait of one man's unbroken bond with the land and the creatures he tends — told not through words, but through the rhythm of a life lived in service to something older than himself.
Writer · Director · Cinematographer
A teenager walks back into the apartment he once called home, fresh out of juvenile detention and carrying more silence than luggage. The rooms are the same. His mother is the same. But there is a new man in the house — her boyfriend — who has settled into the walls like he owns them. What follows is a quiet collision of authority and defiance, as a young man who answered to guards and concrete now refuses to answer to a stranger sitting in his father's chair.
Writer · Cinematographer
Three lives orbit the same museum but never truly meet — a guard who watches without being watched, an artist and new mother vanishing behind her own creation, and a trans girl searching for a reflection the world refuses to show her. A short virtual reality narrative that places the viewer inside the quiet ache of being overlooked, asking what it costs to be seen and what it takes to disappear. Directed by Lilian T. Mehrel. Official Selection, FIVARS 2016.
Cinematographer
As daylight fades and the ballroom doors open, a young person named Hanna steps between two worlds — the home where she is still Hassan, and the floor where she is finally herself. Directed by Elegance Bratton, this 12-minute short captures the collision of identity, family, and freedom through the lens of New York's voguing scene. Winner of the Golden Palm Award at the Mexico International Film Festival. Released on the Criterion Channel.
Writer · Director · Cinematographer
Amidst political turmoil, the lives of a struggling factory worker and a precocious young school boy converge. Winner of the NYU Firstrun Award for Best Direction with faculty commendation.
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