When Jay Met Ammar

Winner, Best Direction and Best Cinematography, Gandhara Film Festival, 2025

Released on OTT platform myco.io, 2025

World Premiere in Dubai, 2022

Official Selection, Colorado International Film Festival​, 2022

Released on OTT platform Zee5, 2022

Untitled - Webseries

Fellowship - Mudhouse Residency 2023​

CRED Art of Everything

Featured on Buzzingcontent's list of Top 21 Branded Video Content Campaigns from 2022

​CRED The Long Game

Featured on Buzzingcontent's list of Top 21 Branded Video Content Campaigns from 2022

Got Cancer - Survivor's Journey

Official Selection: The NewsFest, 2020​

Talking to the Wind

Grants

Virgin Unite Social Impact Film Fund for Production, 2017

Virgin Unite Social Impact Film Fund for Post Production, 2018

Film Festivals

Remi Winner, Best Social Impact Film, 53rd Annual WorldFest Houston International Film Festival​, 2020

Audience Award, Best Student Film, Riverside International Film Festival, 2020

Best Documentary, Assurdo Film Festival, 2020

Best Soundtrack, Assurdo Film Festival, 2020

Audience Award, Marina Del Rey Film Festival, 2020 

Winner, New York Cinematography Award, 2020

Winner, Canadian Cinematography Award, 2020

Audience Award, The NewsFest, 2020

Finalist, Firenze Film Festival, 2020

Finalist, European Cinematography Award, 2020

World Premiere, DOCfeed International Film Festival, 2020 

Official Selection, Verizo Film Festival, 2020

Official Selection, Skiptown International Film Festival, 2020

Official Selection, Reel East Texas Film Festival, 2020

Screened on Roku Tv and KVMD, National broadcasting channel of Southern California, 2020

Press

Scroll.in, In Film Festival on Women and Farming, Portraits of Struggle, Strength and Wisdom, 2021

VoyageLA, Meet Akshaya Sawant of Talking To The Wind in Southern California, 2020

Indian Women Blog, Filmmaker Akshaya Sawant On How Patriarchy Crumbles Under Extreme Environmental Crisis, 2020

Lokvani, Lokvani talks to Akshaya Sawant, 2020

The SHE Power Network, Natasha Nargolkar in conversation with Akshaya Sawant, 2020

Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker, U. S. Presidential Scholars x Morningside Scholar's Forum in China, 2020

Reel Stores, Lunchtime Guest Speaker, 2020

The T.Smith Experience

Winner, Best Series Award at CreaTV San Jose, 2019​

Out of Boredom

Winner, Best Stopmotion Film, 24fps International Film Festival, 2013