Tanmaya Shekhar

Writer & Director at Freelance
Director, Screenwriter and Location Scout

New York City, New York

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About Tanmaya

Tanmaya Shekhar is a Brooklyn based filmmaker focused on character-based narratives centered on the politics of climate change inaction. A native of India, with a Master’s in Economics, Tanmaya has written & directed several short films and is currently in development for an animated TV series The Grand Tammy, a live-action drama-comedy series Fragrance, and an animated feature Fancy Rat.

He’s produced a feature-length independent documentary Farmers for America (PBS, 2020) and worked as a location assistant/scout on The Plot Against America (David Simon, HBO), Love Life (Anna Kendrick, HBOMax), Power Book III (50 Cent, Starz) and Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, Focus Features). Immersed in the independent film community of NYC, Tanmaya runs a weekly directing collective in Brooklyn - The Sandbox.

Unique traits: Location and Microsoft Excel Ninja.

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Fragrance Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama On a small island nation swimming with trash, a precocious 12-year-old teams up with her nerdy best friend to take on conservative businesses, a lethargic government, and their own families, in their quest to ban all plastics.
Fancy Rat Budget: $10M - $30M | Animation ⋄ Comedy A recently escaped bionic lab rat leads a revolution against her human masters, bringing factory-farmed cattle and chicken into the fold, to become the first female president of the United States.