Support Samiksha Thakur’s film “Clouds in My Coffee”

by Rebecca Martin

September 4, 2024

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Learn more about Samiksha’s project and support here: https://seedandspark.com/fund/clouds-in-my-coffee#story

Samiksha Thakur

Samiksha Thakur is an award-winning Indian-American filmmaker whose shorts have screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals like Seattle International Film Festival and Indy Shorts (by Heartland Film). As a writer and director, she avoids the wax poetic, underlining authentic character-driven narratives through her work, instead.

She is a YoungArts Award Winner in Film and a recipient of the WarnerMedia, AT&T, and Ghetto Film School production grant. Currently, she is a BFA candidate for Filmmaking with a Sociology minor at Montclair State University.

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Rebecca Martin

Rebecca Martin is the Managing Editor of Cinema Femme magazine and the Festival Director of Cinema Femme Short Film Fest. She founded her publication in 2018 because she wanted to create a platform for female voices in the film community. She has hosted film screenings in Chicago, led virtual panel discussions, Q&As, is the Cinema Femme Short Films Director, and has covered festivals like the Chicago International Film Festival, Sundance, Tribeca, and the Bentonville Film Festival.

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