Podcasts about tanuj chopra

Jeff and Phil welcome back friend and filmmaker Tanuj Chopra, director of season two of the Netflix series Delhi Crime. He talks about making the leap from indie films to international television, bringing an  insider/outsider perspective to get the tone right, and the future of global storytelling.

On this week's Saturday School, we're continuing our exploration of Asian American sci-fi with a second episode on Futurestates, a groundbreaking sci-fi short film series spearheaded by Karim Ahmad that ran from 2010 to 2014 on public television and online. Before Black Mirror was another anthology series set in the future, Futurestates gave directors – including many notable Asian American filmmakers - opportunities to tell unique stories that imagined the future. Last week, we looked at Greg Pak's short films, and this week, we delve into Tanuj Chopra's shorts “Pia” and “Teacher in a Box,” and J.P. Chan's “Digital Antiquities.” “Pia” takes place in a futuristic San Francisco where robots are named Pia – and played by Pia Shah. “Teacher in a Box” explores a relationship between a teacher (Rebecca Hazlewood) and a student (Sarika Sanyal) who mostly converse through virtual reality but find reasons to connect in the real world. And “Digital Antiquities,” starring Jo Mei and Corey Hawkins, takes place in a future where CDs are antiquated and a man finds the only store that can help him decode the data his mom left for him after she died.   Watching these shorts ten years later, many aspects of these stories seem uncannily similar to our current reality.

This week we talk to filmmaker / showrunner Tanuj Chopra. His first film, Punching at the Sun, was the first South Asian American film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and since then he's made four MORE features. His most recent credit includes taking over as showrunner for the hit Netflix series, Delhi Crime. Tanuj shares pearl after pearl of wisdom when it comes to filmmaking – including how to find your voice and, just as importantly, your taste as a creator and an arts lover. What do you think is cool? That's more valuable than you may even realize.

We're back, baby! The Chaat Room returns with a new mini episode to introduce our newest season and guests, including singer/songwriter Jay Sean, screenwriter Utkarshini Vashishtha, actress Richa Moorjani, filmmaker/showrunner Tanuj Chopra and Kutti Gang comedy duo, Zubi Ahmed & Pooja Reddy – just to name a few! We're also bringing back our Now Re-Playing segment to celebrate some Bollywood anniversaries with some of our favorite comedians. Check out this re-introduction to the show and stay tuned for our first guest episode, dropping Thursday, June 23rd!

Jeff and Phil welcome filmmaker Tanuj Chopra and actress Grace Su to talk about their feature STAYCATION ahead of the film's world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival. They discuss, among other things, the Good, Bad and WTF of being "hella indie."

On this last day of #AsianAugust, our guest is one of our favorite independent filmmakers, Tanuj Chopra, director of 2006 Sundance Selection Punching at the Sun, and last year's fun festival favorite Chee & T. We chat about his newest film Staycation, premiering next month at the LA Film Festival, as well as dive into how he got started (and fell in love with) making movies. Special guest co-host Jess Ju from CAPE fills in for Minji. Intro & outro music for this episode is “Set Free” from Singer Songwriter & Kollab Alum Travis Atreo As always, send us your listener emails at podcast@kollaboration.org Learn more about the KollabCast and listen to past episodes here Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Stitcher, Spotify, Radio Public or via our RSS feed (http://kollaboration.libsyn.com/rss) Follow our guests at: Tanuj Chopra@Chopsfilms Jess Ju@JessJuTweets Follow our hosts at: @minjeeeezy @marvinyueh The KollabCast is a podcast about pop culture and the creative life from an Asian American perspective A proud member of the Potluck Podcast Collective

Filmmaker Tanuj Chopra and I have known each other for almost 20 years, going back to our days in Film School together. Since then, Tanuj has made films that have landed him at Sundance, Tribeca and more! This month, he's releasing TWO films: the indie stoner comedy 'Grass' and the buddy comedy 'Chee and T', both of which feature Tanuj's strong talent of diversity casting. We talk about indie filmmaking, Hollywood whitewashing, getting your stories told and so much more. This episode will take longtime fans back into my pre-Geekscape days! Enjoy!

Classic VMA performances, spoken word reunions, Colin Kaepernick, donuts, Star Wars, haircuts at the gym, and the mystery of red velvet cake — those are just SOME of the wonderful topics discussed in this jammed packed episode with the talented cast and creators from the film Grass which include director/writer/second-time guest Tanuj Chopra, actress/Vampire Diaries alum Emily Chang actress/reverse-immigrant Pia Shah as well as executive producer/Keanu co-writer Alex Rubens. I had a damn good time on this episode and loved my guests so much that I'm now stalking each and every one of them.

It's L.A. Film Festival time and filmmaker Tanuj Chopra and actor Sunkrish Bala join me to talk about their film "Chee and T", Bay Area rent prices, the genius of Prince, and being brown in the biz.