# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/payal-kapadia
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:48:55.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/payal-kapadia"
name: "Payal Kapadia"
slug: "payal-kapadia"
description: "Payal Kapadia is an Indian filmmaker. In 2017, her short film Afternoon Clouds was the only Indian film selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival. In 2021, she won the Golden Eye award for best documentary film at the 74th Cannes Film Festival for her debut feature A Night of Knowing Nothing."
tagline: "Indian filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/All_We_Imagine_as_Light_Director_Payal_Kapadia_at_2024_Cannes_Film_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1986-01-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.12244133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm10339953"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Payal Kapadia"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump