Satish More

Director at Slumdog Pictures, LLC
Director, Director of Photography and Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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About Satish

Growing up in the depravity and obscurity graced by the Mumbai slums, I've learned with time that I actually had an experientially rich upbringing. Science and cinema, my two passions, seemed like distant dreams. But through hard work and focus, and a lot of great teachers and mentors, I got a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from India and an MFA in Film Production from Ohio University.

I have lived in small towns and big cities in Ohio, New York (Manhattan), Florida, Texas and California. I currently reside in Los Angeles. My interesting life journey has taken me through the brightest and darkest corners of human experience and that shines through in my projects. I gravitate towards dark topics and the journey of resilience through that darkness.

I am also a cult survivor which forces me to challenge norms and biases in my works.

As an INFJ, I've always been a confidante and a counsel among friends, often witnessing vulnerabilities and helping them through it. I believe that it is one's privilege to have earned the permission to behold someone's deepest truths. And one is to respect to those truths, never to be used against.

I am a people-spectator. I really appreciate the various perspectives that thrive in our society. Our perceptive and experiential limitations coupled with our expedient bias formation makes us an emotionally vibrant and electric group of organisms. I believe that each of us is trying our best to be happy in our circumstance, based on our best knowledge. We are learning, we're full of conflict, and we're perfect for storytelling!

Writing :
I like writing high-concept, fast-paced, sci-fi, thrillers and dramas.

As an Indian native, I can not help but infuse my stories with deep emotion, punctuated at times by moments of transcendence; striking one's heart.

I love developing detailed, uniquely flawed characters and subjecting them to internal and external challenges, driving them to make difficult decisions, beyond what they ever believed they could do, for better or worse. In my experience however, despite these challenges, or maybe because of them, the audience receives a 'breakthrough' experience at the end.

I enjoy creating expansive alternate universes featuring complex, yet logical rules. My engineering background inspires me to write tangible science fiction that can be technically realized.

I like exploring abstraction in concrete scenarios and vice versa, endowing a surreal effect on the viewers over the course of the narrative. That, coupled with the connected-symbolism in my stories, often opens them up to multiple interpretations.

Gender:
Male

Ethnicity:
Indian/South Asian

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The Perfect Breakup Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance ⋄ Drama Can two adults plan a perfect break-up?
Erehwon Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller In a dystopian future, humans hide from fire-breathing AI robots in high mountain caves. Drake, a curious pacifist forced into servitude, defiantly discovers a computer virus called Erehwon that shows a promise of ending humanity's perilous state. But, to go on this epic quest, he must first inspire a team of supporters in a community that has lost all trust and hope.
Neveah Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance ⋄ Comedy Shakti, an executive officer, and Blaine, her trophy husband live a seemingly happy life in a matriarchal world. Their lives are disrupted when Blaine gets kidnapped while on a business trip and gets taken to the 'Underworld', known for its patriarchy. Shakti sets off on a road trip with her friends in this dangerous land to get her husband back, hoping he has not already been corrupted by that culture.
10 Minutes Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller ⋄ Crime In the first 10 minutes, a gruesome murder of an innocent woman and her two little kids in a suburban home. The next 70 minutes, we follow the monstrous murderer real-time, slowly piecing together; who he is, who his victims were and why those 10 minutes happened.
The Club Budget: $30M+ | Comedy A billionaire's club is headed to a fantasy island for a party weekend. Unfortunately, they crash-land off the coast of the most dangerous island in the Nicobars, inhabited by a violent tribe. They must work together to get out of this catastrophe. There is just one problem, they have a lot of past issues with each other that need sorted out. Oh, and they are billionaires.
Hancock II Budget: $30M+ | Action ⋄ Comedy After Ray Embrey's sudden passing, John and Mary Hancock have found themselves together sharing a beautiful but vulnerable life. Unfortunately, their world is flung into jeopardy after Red Parker escapes from prison and joins forces with another 'superhuman' seething with a past vendetta against the Hancocks. The couple are pushed to their edges as they strive to protect their family, including Aaron, Mary's son.
Mangal Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller A group of seven astronauts encounter a strange energy field when attempting to land on Mars. As they setup habitat and study the electromagnetic fields, they discover a vast ethereal ecosystem full of large biped beings. The astronauts' curiosity catches ire of the sublime beings, and they attack the astronaut habitat. Will our fleeing heroes be able to defend themselves from these energy monsters? Will the follow our astronauts all the way home?
Shady Tree, OH Budget: $1M - $5M | Mystery ⋄ Comedy Ken, a middle aged, non-profit employee from the Southwest, temporarily relocates to a rural town in Southeast Ohio to install solar chargers along the Appalachian Trail. With the backdrop of the turbulent mid-western summer, and the town's customs and traditions, Ken accidentally uncovers dark secrets of the town and its people. As he digs deeper, the townsfolk too catch a scent of Ken's backstory. In this game of cat and mouse, it turns out that Ken is hiding a few skeletons of his own.
Orbit Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller A planetary chunk, too large to disintegrate, is headed to destroy Earth in 7 months. Do we have what it takes to come together and survive, or will we give in to our differences and go extinct?