69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez

Vikram Gandhi is an award-winning and boundary-pushing director of fiction and non-fiction film and television. In 2012, his feature documentary Kumaré, in which he impersonated a religious leader, won the Audience Award at SXSW and was distributed by Kino Lorber. His narrative film Barry, inspired by a year in Barack Obama’s youth, premiered at TIFF 2016 and was released as a Netflix Original. In 2018, he directed and produced the Netflix Original’s Trigger Warning and  Grass is Greener, respectively. Vikram has also been producer and correspondent on the Emmy-Awarding documentary series VICE on HBO (and now on Showtime) for seven years. 69 is his third feature-length film, and was produced through his production company Prophets.

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