Aneesh Chaganty
Directing
Biography
Aneesh Chaganty (/əˈniːʃ ˈtʃɑːɡənti/; Telugu pronunciation: [əniːʂ tʃɑːɡəɳʈi] born January 30, 1991) is an American film director and screenwriter. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2018 thriller Searching, for which he won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Chaganty was included in the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment list. In 2021, Chaganty was featured in the December issue of Vanity Fair, representing Gold House as an AAPI leading member. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aneesh Chaganty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.
Searching
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
Missing
Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
Run
In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he's surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.
Plainclothes
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Dìdi (弟弟)
An original take on the spy thriller. Plot TBA.
Doppelgänger
A dark comedy about a failing couple who discover a dead body in the trunk of their car and how they use it to get back together.
Alibi
When Cody, a third grade wimp, devises a business scheme to stop getting picked on, he realizes he must team up with the school's biggest bully to pull it off.
Microeconomics
A love story set in the midst of a supernatural event.
The Sound of Evanescence
A crime story told in reverse.
Nug
When small town boy Scout Cooper stumbles upon a fortune-telling soda bottle, he is thrust into a global adventure spanning three continents.
Adventure, Wisconsin
Eight-year-old Grace is about to realize that sometimes having a large imagination isn't a good thing.
Monsters
A tale of freshman year woes, told through the lens of a children's story.