Gaurav Pandey

Gaurav Pandey was born and raised in Delhi, India. Gaurav fell in love with his father's Hot Shot camera at the age of 8, and started snapping photos to make people feel happy. From then on, his creative, passionate and curious nature has inspired him to capture life's most provocative stories on film. Pandey holds a Master's degree in Broadcast Journalism from the National Institute of Social Communication Research and Training, as well as a certificate in Mass Communication and a Bachelor's Degree in History from Delhi University. Pandey has explored different realms of film making. He first worked as a video journalist for a news channel and then as a cinematographer editor for an advertising agency. Pandey has since focused his efforts on documentary film making. He has directed, scripted, and edited Are Women Safe in Delhi?. In his recent documentary Prayana (year 2014), for the second time (earlier in year 2013), he traveled with and filmed the leadership journeys of 130 students throughout the state of Karnataka. His film 10 Paisa was selected Official Screening Category at Voices from the Water Film Festival, Bangalore 2013 and International Health Film Festival, Belgium, 2014. Recently, Second time in a row! our film 30FT, has been officially selected for the Voices from the Waters 2014 - 9th International film Festival on Water.