Aditya Mohite is an architect, film-maker and an Art-director. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
He did his graduation from Pune. He developed interest in film-making when he directed his first short film in his third year for a competition. Doing which he realized that his interest lies in constructing or as said directing films. He directed two films during his college days. One was in Marathi, which went to Goa Film Festival and other film festivals as well. After graduation he did a job in architecture for one year. He eventually moved to California to pursue his language of expression, films. And did a Masters in MFA film and television from Los Angeles, California.
He has three years of experience working in the Hollywood film industry as an Art director. During his previous year of Masters he started working as an art director. He directed a French film, “Knead For Love”, shot in hollywood. Aditya worked as a writer and an art director in this film. His architecture background really helped this film to put together visually. In order to maintain visual hierarchy yellow color was used throughout the film, which also represents hope , happiness and conflicting association. To take shot from inside of oven, he and his team managed to build oven in
order to shoot inside without damaging the camera. This film was a fabulous success it received very well recognition all around the globe. It was received in Cannes Film Festival 2018, MedFF 2018, lift Off film festival Amsterdam etc. this film sold its non-exclusive rights to Short Tv london to distribute in India and world region for next four years. He has also directed a film in Mandarin language named, “American Dream”, which won 6-7 awards including ones in Cannes film festival and LA shorts international film festival.
The names of other of his films are- Seek, Hunter and Ashes of Gold, all of which recieved the same appreciation.
He has directed films in seven languages- English, Hindi, Marathi, French, Mandarin, Hebrew and Spanish.
Aditya is currently working on two films one in Persian and other in Marathi.
When asked why did he change his course from an architect to an art director he says that both are the same. In both you have to design just the tools are different!! He says, “Since I studied Architecture, I am more interested in creating my own things, I decided to switch career from Architecture to Filmmaking because I find more freedom in Films than architecture in order to express myself as an individual or as a human. I was able to give out the essence of my creativity through architecture but then I realized making films would be a most efficient way of expressing my vision to the world.”
Apart from film-making he travels a lot. “Traveling helped me grow as a filmmaker, it attracted me towards different cultures, cuisines, people around the world.”
He further aspires to direct films in Marathi. But for now he wants to explore opportunities in Hollwood and shine in abroad as well.
