Satya Kharkar

Coin Toss is Satya Kharkar's debut feature film as a director. Coin Toss has won the "Audience Favorite Debut Film Award" at the 11 th International Route 66 film festival at Springfield, Illinois. Satya's other notable directorial credits include short films "D.W.T." (Driving While Texting) made in public interest for encouraging people not to text while driving, an award winning mini short "My Dad, My Hero" - a finalist under two categories Audience Favorite and Best Short Film at the "2011 Life Fest Film Festival" in Los Angele's. Marathi (An Indian language) Short film "Welcome to Chicago" is yet another of Satya's significant directorial achievements. It was a heart warming video invitation made for an Indian community convention held at Chicago's McCormick place in 2011.For this voluntary community effort Satya and his team brought together around forty Chicago artists mostly amateur, ages ranging from 7 to 70 years and made them sing, write, act, and compose music to make this beautiful short film invitation. Satya was directors assistant for the theater adaptation of popular TV series M*A*S*H* presented by the Elgin Theater company in 2010. Recently Satya completed a documentary in an Indian language(Marathi) about a young person who has won India's one of the prestigious award in 2005 for his creative writings despite of suffering from cerebral palsy. Indian news media has appreciated the documentary effort. Satya hope's that Coin Toss will continue making a place in its viewer's heart and he could make more such entertaining films through Satya's production company Anmol Movies.