Parthiban Shanmugam

A versatile writer and director with many years of experience in a wide variety of theater, video, film projects, Parthiban Shanmugam has performed and won several awards world wide at prestigious festivals and theaters. Trained as a Defense and Strategic analyst, lawyer, human rights advocate, stand up comic and story teller, he comes from an extensive creative background. He has focused his career on the emerging south Asian culure in the USA. Parthi has been exposed to variety of creative influences from modern western art, eastern philosophy to literature, Hollywood, Bollywood, and everything in between.

Filmography:

Producer:

• War Within Us (2008)
• We Are Not Far Away (2007)
• Black Men Can Swim (2007)
• Downtime (2007) (V)
• The Celestial Brides (2006)
• Mathamma (2006)

Director:

• You're Rejected (2008)
• Parthi in Love (2008)
• War Within Us (2008)
• A Pizza Story (2007)
• We Are Not Far Away (2007)
• Black Men Can't Swim (2007)
• The Celestial Brides (2006)
• Mathamma (2006)

Writer:

• War Within Us (2008)
• We Are Not Far Away (2007)
• A Pizza Story (2007)
• Black Men Can Swim (2007) (screenplay) (story)
• The Celestial Brides (2006)
• Mathamma (2006)

Cinematographer:

• War Within Us (2008)
• We Are Not Far Away (2007)
• You're Rejected (2008)

Actor:

• The Great New Wonderful (2005)
• We Are Not Far Away (2007)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director:

• Downtime (2007) (V) (first assistant director)