Sudarshan Suresh

History

Sudarshan Suresh is a lawyer turned writer/ director, currently working between New York and Mumbai. He is one of ​Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film for the year 2019, and was previously the recipient of the Director's Guild of America Student Filmmaker Award. A graduate of the Columbia University Film MFA program, his thesis film MIZARU was the recipient of the Katharina Otto Bernstein Production Grant and won Best Film at the Columbia University Film Festival. MIZARU had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival 2019. It was the recipient of the inaugural IFP Short Film Award at the 2019 Gotham Awards in New York and will be distributed by Focus Features and JetBlue. His previous shorts ABSENT, THE RABBIT and MEMORIES OF THE SEA have screened at numerous international film festivals, including Palm Springs, Hamptons, Atlanta, New Orleans, Aspen, Miami, Nantucket and more, and have gone on to win awards at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, London Indian Film Festival, Champs Elysees Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, among others, as well as being Vimeo Staff-Picked. He is currently in early development on his first feature MIZARU. Sudarshan is also an accomplished editor and colorist, and has worked on films that have gone on to screen at Sundance, Venice and NYFF, among other international film festivals. He is represented by Alec Ring at Cinetic Media.

Movies

Mizaru
Mizaru
Editor
In the suburbs of Mumbai, a young couple tries to catch some private time in a very public place, when they're paid a visit by the moral police.
Mizaru
Mizaru
Director
In the suburbs of Mumbai, a young couple tries to catch some private time in a very public place, when they're paid a visit by the moral police.
Mizaru
Mizaru
Screenplay
In the suburbs of Mumbai, a young couple tries to catch some private time in a very public place, when they're paid a visit by the moral police.
Alex, Listen to your Heart
Alex, Listen to your Heart
Cinematography
Alex has given up on love completely. However, one day his heart calls him using a public phone to convince him otherwise.
Absent
Absent
Director
Resigned to a mundane life of caring for a mother with dementia, Zola sees a fleeting chance at escape when she runs into an old crush.
Khargosh
Khargosh
Director
A debt-ridden farmer's relationship with his daughter is put to the test when she adopts a stray rabbit.