ARMAAN UPLEKAR

Armaan Uplekar is an award-winning writer and filmmaker from South Florida and a graduate of Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts. Born to a Punjabi mother and a Marathi father, Uplekar gravitated toward telling stories that aimed to reflect the crude overlap between racial, cultural and national identity, especially in the long shadow of post-9/11 America. Uplekar is a CAPE New Writers fellow and a Gotham alumnus.

As a writer-director, Uplekar’s work includes DIXIE (Florida Film Festival, Denver Film Festival), EAT GOOD (Bronze Lens Film Festival) and the documentary short ETERNAL (Gasparilla Film Festival, LABFF London), which chronicled the aftermath of a mass shooting that targeted the Sikh-American community of Oak Creek, WI. As a writer, Uplekar’s work includes GILT (Florida Film Festival), which was recently selected for curation by both Omeleto and Director’s Notes.

Uplekar’s short films have netted awards at the Harlem International Film Festival, the Black Warrior Film Festival and the Palm Beach International Film Festival. Uplekar’s additional credits include Amazon Studio’s Peabody Award winning series, “The Underground Railroad" as Writer's PA, Cinemax’s “Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus” as lead researcher and “American Made,” where Uplekar worked as assistant to Academy Award nominated director of photography César Charlone.