Chaitanya Tamhane is an independent filmmaker based in Mumbai. His debut feature film COURT premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2014, where it was awarded the Best Film - Orizzonti and the Lion of the Future award. It has since gone on to win over 30 awards at film festivals worldwide. COURT won the National Award for Best Feature Film and was India’s official entry for the 2016 Oscars. 

Tamhane has been featured in the Forbes “30 Under 30 Asia” list and was touted by The Hollywood Reporter as "one of the world’s most promising film-makers under 30". In 2016, he was invited to serve on the jury at the 73rd Venice Film Festival. In the same year, he was selected to be mentored by Alfonso Cuarón as part of the Rolex Mentor-Protégé Arts Initiative. His new film, THE DISCIPLE, was awarded the Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship presented by Netflix. The film will have its World Premiere at the 77th Venice Film Festival in competition.

As part of the fiction/nonfiction mini series, Chaitanya Tamhane will participate in a conversation with Prof. Karan Mahajan.