Samit Kakkad

Samit Kakkad's Born in Mumbai, Samit is a sought after filmmaker in India, who grew up with an Ad/Corporate filmmaker father Amar Kakkad. He started his career as an editor on TV shows. Samit was the producer and the creative director on his 1st home production 'Huppa Huiyya'. Internationally acclaimed and officially selected at 18 International Film Festivals 'Aayna Ka Bayna' (Delinquent Dancers) produced and directed by Samit Kakkad is also the first Marathi film to be dubbed in Hindi for Sony Max. Samit Kakkkad's second film as a director was 'Half Ticket' an adaption of a national award winning film 'Kaaka Muttai' which released on July 22nd all over Maharashtra to four star reviews.  Samit Kakkad's Half Ticket just won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 57th Zlin International Film Festival 2017.Indian filmmaker Samit Kakkad’s “Half Ticket” wins the prestigious ‘Ecumenical Jury Award.Among the only few Indian filmmakers to win this coveted international award Indian filmmakers such as Mira Nair (1988), Awtar Kaul (1974) and Rabindra Dharmaraj (1981) among the only others to have won this award.International filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf, Asghar Farhadi, Fatih Akin and Pedro Almodovar have won this award.