WonderRoot Artist Feature - PRASHANT NAIR & SWATI SHETTY

Prashant Nair and Swati Shetty talk about their journey to becoming filmmakers and some of the important decisions they made along the way in producing their first project, Umrika, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Nair and Shetty visited WonderRoot as part Sundance Film Forward, a touring program which introduces a new generation of audiences to the power of story through the exhibition of film and conversations with filmmakers to create greater cultural awareness. To learn more about Umrika, visit: https://www.facebook.com/Umrika To learn more about Sundance Film Forward, visit: http://www2.sundance.org/filmforward/ WonderRoot is an Atlanta-based non-profit arts and service organization with a mission to unite artists and community to inspire positive social change. By providing production facilities to Atlanta-based artists and coordinating arts-based service programs, WonderRoot empowers artists to be proactive in engaging their communities through arts-based service work. For more information, please visit: http://wonderroot.org 
 
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