Omkar Potdar
Omkar Potdar is an award winning director and executive producer best known for character-driven documentary films exploring figures from the sports world and the world of factual entertainment, extreme reality, adventure, mountaineering expeditions, music, food & off-beat travel.
With close to two decades of experience in the Indian media, Omkar was the creative director and the director on Warrior Hunt- India's first docu series on Mixed Martial Arts which went on to receive the 'Best Sports Docu Series at KISF(Kenyan international Sports festival 2023.which has over 500 entries.
From Amazon Prime's Sons of Soil - The first sports docu series set in India, following the fortunes of Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan's Pro Kabaddi team to Hot Star's - Dream On - A Docu series on upcoming IPL players, Omkar has successfully directed and closely worked with some of the industry's leading platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hot star and Sony Liv.
Omkar has recently directed and co produced India's' five part series on Baseball for Hot Star and Star Sports - India's leading Sports network.
An Avid world traveler, adventure junkie and a mountaineer himself having climbed mountain peaks extensively in the Himalayas and around the world for over a decade, Omkar is now purely focussing on on creating and producing a variety of unscripted formats in various genres.
He has also effectively spearheaded projects with international crews having worked with them extensively for shows in countries like U.S.A, South Africa, U.K, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Tanzania, Bhutan and Nepal to name a few.