Anvita Gattani trained at NYU Tisch. She was one of 100 filmmakers selected globally for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Gold Rising Program and was chosen as the cohort’s speaker, giving a speech before the Academy President and Board. As an actor, Anvita has appeared on HBO, NBC, and on regional and Off-Broadway stages. As a director, they crafted the award-winning dystopian film Alone, Alone, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea. She was named one of Minorities in Film’s Directors to Watch and selected for the Rickshaw Writers Room. Anvita is the Co-founder and Head of Programming at Saphlicks, a film organization dedicated to amplifying sapphic voices within the LGBTQ+ community. In Hindi, Anvita means "who bridges the gaps" and it is their mission to utilize storytelling to bridge the gaps between different groups of people.
I am performing in the workshop of Bhangra Nation produced by McCarter Theatre and Tom Kirdahy Productions.
I am acting in The Matchmaker, Comedy of Errors, Octet and Julius Caesar at Hudson Valley Shakespeare.
Alone Alone Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, a film I directed is showing at the Angelika Theater in New York and the American Cinematheque in LA.
Happy Enough, a film I starred in as a romantic lead had it's New York Premiere Screening!
I starred on an episode of Law and Order SVU playing Lexi Hall.
Alone Alone Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, a film I directed, won best short film of festival at NCIFIF.
Aloo Poori, a film I starred in both won best short film at Planet Female Global Festival.
I spoke on a Queer Filmmakers panel in conversation with the hit film A Nice Indian Boy.