Rahul Chittella on Clubhouse

Bio

Filmmaker.
Founder, Autonomous Works

Director and Executive Producer of the Global Lives Project, India in 2009 followed by creative producing documentary films for the United Nations Documentary Program at the UNHQ, NYC.

Collaborated as a creative and producing partner on acclaimed projects like THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, WORDS WITH GOD, NAFAS, QUEEN OF KATWE, A SUITABLE BOY and the upcoming MONSOON WEDDING MUSICAL.

Writer and Director of the award-winning film, AZAAD, which was India’s first film to be screened by UNESCO at the prestigious World Press Freedom Day forum and picked up by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, Berlin for screenings across Europe. AZAAD has won awards at film festivals across the globe including the International Film Festivals of Zanzibar and Stuttgart.

Recently received the Global Media Makers Fellowship by Film Independent and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Culture Affairs.
Awarded the Sloan Science and Film grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for an upcoming feature film on the real-life story of India’s first astronaut in space.

Founder of Autonomous Works, an independent film, TV and podcast creative studio.