Tanvi Chitre, India
Director and editor

contact: tchitre@gmail.com
Tanvi is a filmmaker, editor, and photographer from Mumbai, India. She’s a second year postgraduate student of Film Editing at the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII). While being part of several commercial projects in varying capacities, she also holds a practice in analog filmmaking. She works with analog and motion picture and has experimented with multiple film formats. Her 16mm experimental film How do you love? is a part of Bambaram – an ongoing analog screening programme of films made at the Harkat Lab which has screened at multiple festivals. Tanvi is also a photographer, primarily shooting 35mm celluloid film.She relates to themes of human expression and connection, transience, spaces, emotions, and explore these by combining her love for film, photo, video art, and words among other things. She has most recently directed a short documentary called Mad Girl and is currently editing another short documentary film along with personal photo-based projects.
Filmography:
- Mad Girl / short documentary / 2023 – WIP / as director, cinematographer, and co-editor
- The date / 8mm short film / 2021 / as director and cinematographer
- How do you love? / 16mm experimental film / 2020 / as director, cinematographer and editor
- Sequence Tree: Filmic Letters – Harkat Lab x Labo K / 16mm experimental performance / 2020 / as performer
- Chinnamasta / 16mm experimental film / 2020 / as co-editor
- Are You All Right? / 16mm experimental music video / 2019 / as co-editor
Festivals / Awards:
- Chinnamasta / HBK / Bambaram / Braunshweig, Germany / 2022
- Chinnamasta / Labor Berlin / Bambaram / Berlin, Germany / 2022
- Chinnamasta / Oberhausen International Film Festival / Bambaram / 2022
- Chinnamasta / Festival Oodaq / Filmic Letters – Harkat Lab x Labo K / Rennes, France / Bambaram / 2022
- How do you love?/ HBK / Bambaram / Braunshweig, Germany / 2022
- How do you love? / Labor Berlin / Bambaram / Berlin, Germany / 2022
- How do you love? / Oberhausen International Film Festival / Bambaram / 2022
- How do you love? / Festival Oodaq / Rennes, France / Bambaram / 2022
- How do you love? /1666 Film Festival / India on Film – Harkat Lab / Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / 2021
- The Date / 16mm Film Festival / Straight8 – Top 8 + India Entries / Mumbai, India / 2021
- Chinnamasta / 16mm Film Festival / Filmic Letters – Harkat Lab x Labo K / Mumbai, India / 2021
- How do you love? / 16mm Film Festival / The Harkat Lab Showcase / Mumbai, India / 2020