Autocorrect (short film)

Logline: An apologetic, self-doubting actor of color strives for visibility with a harried, big-shot white director who just wants to enjoy her lunch.

Produced by: The BGB Studio

Directed by: Priyanka Shetty & Anu Bhatt

Written & Edited by: Anu Bhatt

Starring: Anu Bhatt as Ansu & Elizabeth Bates as Laura

Special thanks: Ryan March, Risa Bramon Garcia, Mike Faiola and Dominic Burgess

Copyright 2021 Anu Bhatt. All music royalty-free.

Updates (April 2023):

AutoCorrect won Audience Choice Award for Best Acting at Poppy Jasper Int’l Film Festival in Morgan Hill, CA on April 14, 2023.

AutoCorrect is an official selection of TEN festivals and has screened in nine. Previous accolades include BEST FILM February 2022 at WILDSound FEEDBACK Film Festival and Nominee for Audience Choice Award at Los Angeles Asian Film Awards (LAAFA). 

Next up: LA Women in Film (TBD 2023.)

Poster of AutoCorrect film. A young South Asian woman, seated, looks apprehensively at a laptop computer screen. The title AutoCorrect is superimposed over the back of the laptop. Four film festival laurels are featured across the bottom of the poster and one is on the top left.

How do I watch AutoCorrect?

AutoCorrect is finishing the festival circuit and will be available to watch online SOON~!

So well done! Bravo! I want to send this to old bosses.

Rabiya Mansoor

Artist

This was really really good, Anu. Bravo and thanks for making it. ♥️

Anne Akhila Rubins Kang

Improviser, Actress, Dancer

This was so cathartic. Thank you for this great short. ♥️

Marushka Almeida

Only Much Louder