A young film maker from India is making his presence felt in the stand-up comedy scene in the U.S. Siddarth Salgaonkar from Belagavi is also actively involved in the alternative film circuit there. A polymath with an artistic bent of mind, he is writing scripts and assisting TV crews while working on his next independent film project.
A graduate of the Bengaluru based Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology, Siddarth made a film that was screened in the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The festival was held in collaboration with Instagram. As part of his curriculum, he made ‘Savangadi’, a thesis film that was filmed entirely in his hometown of Belagavi.
He later completed a post graduate course in Dramatic Writing for Stage and Screen from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah in Georgia.
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