Victoria Harwood Kapadia

BIOGRAPHIE

With a Theatre Design BA, Victoria gained her first film experience in the design departments on feature films that include 'The Madness of King George' and 'Richard III'. While studying set design, MA (RCA), Victoria made her first short 'GunGirls' (shown as part of 'Riot Grrls' programme at the ICA). Her second short film as writer/director ‘Preserve’ was funded by Southern Arts / Lazennec, was screened on Film 4 and French TV2 and won the David Altshul award. Victoria joined the Fiction Direction course at the NFTS and one of her shorts ‘Blood Money’ was shortlisted for Best Newcomer Award, Rushes Film Festival. After graduating with ‘The Visitor’, which screened internationally at festivals such as Karlovy Vary, she was commissioned by Screen South to make ‘Lilly’ which aired on Meridian TV. She next wrote, directed and produced 'Rajkumari' which she made in India and which starred Irrfan Khan (Lunchbox, Life of Pi). It premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, won Special Jury Recognition for Outstanding Performance by a Child at Aspen SFF, and showed at the LFF before winning the Satyajit Ray award.

FILMOGRAPHIE