Asmit Pathare is a screenwriter, filmmaker, actor and stage lighting designer.
His films have been screened at MAMI, IFFLA, IDSFFK, SASFF and many other festivals. He has been part of the first collaborative ventures in film-making - international and national.
The Owner (2010) brought 25 filmmakers from 16 countries together to make one feature film. Back home, Asmit spearheaded the Creative on The Last Act (2012) which brought 12 filmmakers from 12 different cities in India together to make a film. It received the ABBY Award at Goafest 2013.
Asmit's recent short film Two Way Street (2023) has won him the V Shantaram Golden Award for Direction at South Asian Short Film Fest. He also won Best Director (Narrative) at Pune Short Film Festival and is a Semi-Finalist at the Oscar Qualifying Best of India Short Film Festival.
Asmit has worked as an actor in Motorbike (FTII Diploma Film) which received the Best Director Award at PIFF (2012). His first feature film Vees Mhanjhe Vees was an NFDC Production. His latest work is Karan Gour's much-awaited Fairy Folk which has travelled to Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne Indian Film Festival, and Chicago Film Festival.
Asmit has lit for theatre productions in English, Hindi and Gujarati. He won the 2017 META Award for Best Light Design for their play Elephant In The Room. He has conducted Storytelling Workshops for children and worked as the First AD and Language Coach for lead actor Manoj Bajpayee in the Hindi film Aligarh (2017).
Escort(2023)
Two Way Street(2023)
The Poem Thief(2014)
Jai Janardhan(2012)
Unpaused(2020)as Food Distributor (Segment "Vishanu")