Bellagio Residents/

Shalini Kantayya

June 2023 Cohort

Bellagio Residency: June 2023

Project: “Love + Tech (a feature documentary)”


Shalini Kantayya is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and director. While in Bellagio in June 2023, she worked on Love+Tech, a feature documentary about how technology is transforming our relationships and shaping that most human of pursuits: love. Her latest film, TikTok, Boom, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and was official selection at SXSW. Her critically-acclaimed 2020 Sundance film, Coded Bias, was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Independent Lens and globally on Netflix in April 2021. Shalini is a TED Fellow, a William J. Fulbright Scholar, and Concordia Studios Artist Fellow.