MANU REWAL is an award-winning Indo-French filmmaker. A screenwriter, director and producer, he is the CEO of film production and distribution companies, Karma Productions SARL France and Duniya Vision India Pvt. Ltd.
His first feature, a coming-of-age satire in Hinglish (English & Hindi), CHAI PANI ETC, (Love, Bribes etc) was distributed in theatres in India, after a nine-month battle with the censors. It won the Special Jury Award at the International film festival in Brussels in 2007.
His short comedy also in Hinglish HOLLYWOOD KI PUKAR (the call of Hollywood) was premiered in the Director’s fortnight Cannes in 2002.
His most recent documentary, INDIAN MODERNITY was coproduced in 2017, with the Centre Pompidou, Paris, one of the world’s leading museums.
He perfected his craft by making fifteen architecture documentaries which he sold to TV in India and to the educational market in US. Seven were selected, and three received awards in international film festivals.
LE CORBUSIER IN INDIA (2000), (2 x 52 minutes), won the Prix Architecture at the UNESCO Film Festival on art and education in Paris and The Jury Award at MIPA in Madrid.
LUTYENS’ DELHI (1999), (30 minutes), won the Prix Archives ethniques at the UNESCO Film Festival on art and education in Paris, France.
MANDU (1996), (31 minutes), won a certificate of Honorary Mention at the Columbus Film Festival, Ohio in USA and the Prix Information Architecturale at the UNESCO Film Fest on art & education in Paris, France.
He has also made films for exhibitions in India (National gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi) and in France (Centre Pompidou & Institut français de l’architecture, Paris) and has given conferences in universities, architectural schools and cultural centers.
He has served as a Jury member for feature films in Belgium, France and Morocco as well as for student films in Canada.
He studied acting (international atelier) & film making in Paris (Sorbonne) and in New York (NYU).
He is based in Delhi and Paris.
