
Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Directing
Known For

As a couple moves in together, full of hope and worry, their day is unexpectedly interrupted by the ghosts of former relationships.
Houseplants

Ten aliens in human host bodies learn how to be men.
Dominant Species

A woman goes on a daytime show to confront a famous music producer of sexual harassment, only to find him armed with the “perfect apology.”
Real Talk

A woman with no feelings tries an unusual therapy to reverse her condition.
Decompression

After hitting dead ends in life, Jyothi, an Indian housewife, and Sophie, a stoner musician, find themselves on the run from the law, together on a wild, surreal American road trip from Durham, North Carolina to Montreal, Canada.
Have a Nice Life
It turns out that Agatha’s mom is still too insane for a family celebration, but the show must go on.
A Celebration

14 year-old Janiyah Blackmon wrestles with her new life in New York City as her mom tries to move her family out of the shelter system and into a stable home.
If There is Light

Struggling with new parenthood and stalling careers, Kallia and Ram's lives are thrown into chaos when Kallia's blind mother goes on a mission to exorcize the family from the evil eye.
Removal of the Eye
Raleigh, North Carolina's Holderness family makes viral videos.
daddy you're sweet

A young outcast is recruited to join the Rejectors, an anti-fascist gang.
Rejectors

Lines get blurred after Lisa's coworker offers to drive her home.
A Hand

This cheerfully humdrum rom-com presents a very homemade slice of first-lockdown life. But can its squabbling couple make it through a mysterious pandemic? Co-writers and filmmakers Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan play Kallia and Ram: young lovers vacationing to New York just as the pandemic unfolds. They’ve already descended into petty name-calling when the travel ban prolongs their trip indefinitely, trapping them in Kallia’s uncle’s apartment.
New Strains

Born and raised in the US, Lisa Lin seems to have a perfectly wholesome American life. However, when her mother lost her English language ability due to Alzheimer’s, Lisa suddenly realized that fundamentally something has been missing in herself which has kept her away from her mother in her entire life.
Mother Tongue

An Indigenous man takes a Happy Thanksgiving wish very very personally.