Director & Producer
Anshul Chauhan
Anshul Chauhan was born in India. After attending military academy and graduating from MS University Vadodara with an Arts degree, he began working as an animator in 2006 at Paprikaas Studios (now Technicolor India), on Nickelodeon TV series such as Farm Kids and Back at the Barnyard. In 2008 he joined Crayon Pictures as an animator on the National Award-winning film Delhi Safari, and later became a team lead in Bangalore, overseeing production of the BBC TV series Everything’s Rosie.
In 2011 he relocated to Tokyo, where he worked at Polygon Pictures on projects including Disney XD’s Emmy Award-winning Tron: Uprising and the Transformers: Robots in Disguise TV series.
Anshul then pursued his passion for directing and producing. In 2017 he directed his first feature film, Bad Poetry Tokyo, which won the Grand Prix at the Brussels film festival and screened at many prestigious festivals, including Raindance. His second feature, Kontora (2019), received the Grand Prix at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, along with multiple awards and critical acclaim at international festivals, including the prestigious Obayashi Award in 2020.
In 2021 Anshul directed and produced December, a courtroom drama that premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and was nominated for the Kim Ji-seok Award in 2022. The film screened at festivals around the world and had a successful theatrical run in Japan, with releases in Spain, Germany, South Korea and other countries. His latest Japanese feature, Tiger, is to be released soon.
Anshul is in early development on his debut Hollywood project, an MMA sports drama set in Las Vegas, in collaboration with CAA and Radical Media. He is also working on a new Japan–Taiwan project, recently selected for development by TCCF/TAICCA Taiwan and TTB Italy. Having recently finished shooting a documentary as director, producer and DoP, Anshul continues to push artistic boundaries.