Null Hypothesis [Shorts Session 4]
Null Hypothesis, is a short film about a female private investigator who is hired for an infidelity case and discovers things about the case which are unexpected. A story about love, money, betrayal, motives, morals and how this impacts a family is at the center of the film. “An uninformative prior” is known to be synonymous with null hypothesis. This story unfolds and does just that.
Director
Archita Mandal Fallini is a writer, director and producer. Her directorial debut, Untread, is a science fiction thriller short film that was screened at Women’s International Film & Arts Festival, 2015 and received other film festival accolades.
Archita was born in Calcutta, India, grew up in Kuwait, and later moved to Canada with her family. Her undergraduate studies were in Business and Management Information Systems, in Michigan. She currently lives in the bay area and works as a writer at a high tech firm in the networking industry.
She was drawn to independent movie-making. Film gives her a powerful platform upon which to exercise her talents in storytelling and visual arts.
Archita has been wearing many production hats on indie projects in the past 10 years spanning from art direction, script writing to direction. She also acted, wrote, directed, and shot an experimental short conceived, shot, and edited in a 24 hour period with three people crew. This short “Meeting SHANTI”, about individual perceptions, garnered a few festival selections. Another experimental short film “Null Hypothesis” was shot and released in 25 days. It was part of a female film-makers challenge and is currently doing the festival rounds.
Diva Motherhood, her latest music production is a music video with a social angle featuring an original score, composed by Farhan Mohamed and sung by Ranjini Vijay. Archita has written, directed and produced this music video. With this, she has forayed into music production. The “Diva Mom song” released on mothers day 2017 and has since garnered a lot of accolades. It has been submitted to music festivals around the world.
Archita is currently working on a feature film script and several other production ideas.