Hidden Ridge Productions

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Sanatan Kadakia is an Executive Producer and screenwriter based in Sugar Land, Texas.

Sanatan Kadakia was born and raised in Gujarat, India. He has an Electrical Engineering degree from Government Polytechnic Ahmedabad and a Master’s Degree in IT from Charles Stuart University in the United Kingdom, where he developed his passion for cinema working as a projectionist during his academic years.

In 2002, Sanatan came to the United States, started working in commercials and corporate film as a Production Assistant and Still Photographer in 2015, and launched Hidden Ridge Productions in 2018. 

In (2020) he began seeking business opportunities as an investor and has established himself as a key addition to the independent movie landscape. 

His first investment is the 2021 Netflix documentary Murder among the Mormons, an American true crime documentary television mini series on the 1985 Utah Bombings. 

Since 2022, Sanatan began executive-producing numerous genres and Indies from around the world.

Among them are Los Angeles’ Scrap, winner of 15+ film festivals awards as Best Narrative Feature, Best Director, and Best Actress - with 35+ nominations. The drama stars ‘Anthony Rapp (Star Trek: Discovery/ Rent: Live/Dazed and Confused) and writer, director and lead actress Vivian Kerr (Jimmy Kimmel Live!/ Rizzoli & Isles/Grey’s Anatomy).

The new British Gothic horror film The Baby in the Basket, (filmed in Scotland) starring Maryam d'Abo (The Living Daylights), Paul Barber (The Full Monty), Annabelle Lanyon (Legend) and Amber Doig-Thorne (Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey). The feature is produced by Flickering Myth and Shepka Productions, is being sold worldwide by Strive Global Media at Cannes 2024.

Seattle’s horror feature Winter Island  (filmed in Seattle) written by Chris Taylor and Clark Coffey and directed by Tony Doupe, won best feature awards in Bleedingham horror film festival and Crypticon Seattle Film Festival. It also won best of the fest award from “The Thing in the Basement Horror Fest”. Igor Princ of Princ Films is the sales agent.

The new Australian Thriller Spithood, about a mental health team faced with a challenging situation when a troubled employee’s past comes back to haunt them. The horror film stars Thibul Nettle, Claudia Bonifazio and Natasha Wanganeen which will be going through film festival circuits in Australia, Europe and North America in coming months and  Séance, written and directed by Vivian Kerr, which is based in In 1892 California and about a Victorian woman contemplating adultery is forced to take refuge from a storm at the home of her first husband and his unstable wife, who claims to be haunted by their dead child. 

Most notably he is an Executive Producer of the British action thriller Control starring two-time academy award winner Kevin Spacey, Lauren Metcalfe and Mark Hampton. The feature is now on Apple TV, Prime Video and Google Play Movies & TV in US.

As he continues crafting compelling narratives and producing remarkable films, he embodies the notion that one can turn their wildest dreams into reality with determination and unwavering vision. 

Sanatan expects that Hidden Ridge Productions will find new avenues of growth, bringing out-of-the-box presentations to amaze audiences around the globe.