Sachin
Founder
rohī collective

Sachin is a Rajasthan-based filmmaker who employs lens-based art to comprehend the world around him and express his ideas with an experimental approach. Coming from an agrarian family, Sachin is deeply invested in the visual exploration of agricultural practices in rural communities and their interconnectedness with socio-ecological factors. He is interested in oral histories, folklore and community based indigenous knowledge systems. His films often explore the changes in rural landscapes, beliefs and knowledge systems.
He is working on a body of work called Oran project which deals with the community protected sacred land in Thar Desert (western Rajasthan), where folk deities, beliefs system, land, environment and green energy projects are in conflict. Sachin is co-founder of Docustan Cinema Association, which is dedicated to nurturing the practice of documentary filmmaking.

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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

• Docnomads-Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in Documentary Filmmaking, KU Leuven (LUCA school of Arts), Belgium, SZFE Budapest, Lusófona University Lisbon Portugal

• MA in Culture and Media Studies, Central University of Rajasthan, India

• BA in Cinematography, State Institute of Film and Tv, Rohtak Haryana, India 2016

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FELLOWSHIP AND RESIDENCY
Workshop Facilitator at 70th Flaherty Film Seminar, Delhi Pod 2025
Workshop Facilitator, Scene Unseen at Rajasthan Film Collective, Jaipur 2025
Opening Scenes Lab, Vision du Reel, Nyon Switzerland 2024
Taiwan Pitch Grant for producing a short film - 2022 Taipei, Taiwan
Recipient of Erasmus Mundus Scholarship,2021-23
Film Making as Spatial Speculation, Trojan Horse remote participant, Finland 2020
Interaction Fellow, Cinematographer, Film-art Serbia, 2019

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ORGANIZATIONAL ENGAGEMENT

Film Curator at Rajasthan Film Collective - 2025 - ongoing
Visiting Faculty at Ashoka University Sonipat from January 2024-May 2024
Co-founder and mentor at Docustan - a non for profit organization, 2023-ongoing
Assistant Professor, Film Department, Parul Institute of Design, Parul University, Vadodara 2020-21
Assistant Professor, Department of film and visual arts, Chandigarh University Punjab 2016-17
Visiting Faculty at State University of Performing and Visual Arts Rohtak Aug-Sept 2024

FILMOGRAPHY
When Buddha Turns Blue, as blue as the sky/Nonfiction/20 Min/ India, Hungary 2025/ Edit,Sound,Camera,Direction and Produced
In Flanders Fields/16min/India,Belgium/ 2024/Script,Edit,Sound, Direction and Produced
The Ballads of the Forest/Nonfiction/15 min/Taiwan, India / 2022/ Edit, Camera, Direction, Produced
Remnants of the past/Nonfiction/15 min/Portugal/ 2021/ Edit, Camera, Direction and Produced
КØBИЉЕ/Non-Fiction/18min/Film-art Serbia/2020/Camera
Towards a fragmented anatomy/ Non Fiction/14 Min/India/2019/Edit,Camera and Direction
Monsoon fables/Video letter/6 min/NonFiction/India/2019/Edit, Camera, Direction
Noor Islam/Non-Fiction/22min/NID, India/2018/Cinematography
Happy Anniversary/Fiction/ 20min/NID, India/2017/Cinematography
Chaumasa/63 Min/Fiction/India/2017/Cinematography
Daayra/ 25 Min/ Fiction/SIFT India/2016/Cinematography
Samann (Monsoon) /30Min/Fiction/India/2016/Cinematography

EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / WORK SHOWCASE
Vision du Réel, Nyon Switzerland 2024
MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024
40th IDA Documentary awards shortlist LA 2024
55th International Film Festival of India, Goa 2024
43 Filmschoolfest Munich Germany 2024
Special Mention Award at EMAMI art experimental film festival, Kolkata 2024
ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival 2024 - Garden of Earthly Delights, Jakarta, Indonesia
Dharamshala International Film Festival 2024
Pianofabriek, Brussels 2025
Festival En Ville, Brussels 2025 Prix du Jury Award
UnArchive Found Footage Fest, Rome Italy 2025
FILMKUNSTFEST MV (Filmart-Festival), Germany 2025
istart Rajasthan Talent Showcase, Jaipur 2025
Signs Film Festival, Kerala 2024
Interaction Short Doc Film Festival, Serbia 2024
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2023
15 IDSFFK Kerala 2023
Zsigmond Vilmos International Film Festival, Szeged Hungary 2022
Loss and Transience @ the Hong-gah Museum, Taiwan 2022
Kinoproba Russia 2019
The Design Museum, Kingston London
32nd international documentary film festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2019, The Netherlands
Interscreen International Film Camp Serbia Europe 2019
DMZ-DOCS Film Festival, South Korea 2019
21st Busan International film festival (BIFF) South Korea 2016
47th International film festival of India (IFFI) Goa 2016
19th Tel Aviv International Film Festival, Israel 2017
Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival, CHINA 2017
Jogja - netpac asian film festival, indonesia 2016
Durham Region Film Festival, Canada 2016
International Open Film Festival, Dhaka Bangladesh 2016
Beskop Tshechu, Bhutan 2016
Princeton Student Film Festival, New Jersey, USA 2016
International film festival of south asia (IFFSA) toronto 2018
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2017 curated by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni

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