Rishi Chandna's debut short, Tungrus (2018), traveled to 150+ film festivals (Hot Docs, BFI London Film Festival, IDFA), won 28 awards, and became an Oscar-qualifying short documentary after winning at Slamdance Film Festival, 2019. Tungrus has released online on the prestigious NYT Op-Docs, PBS POV SHORTS, The Criterion Channel and several other platforms. His second short, PARTY POSTER, has just had its World Premiere at the 36th Fribourgh International Film Festival, where it won the CH Cinema Award. It's also shown at the Palm Springs ShortFest, Krakow Film Festica, DocAviv Israel and more. Rishi is currently in development on the script of his first feature-length fiction film titled GHOL. The project has been mentored at the 2021 Sundance Screenwriters Lab, and selected at the Cannes Film Market 2021, the 2021 NFDC Film Bazaar Co-Production Market and the 2021 Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum where it won the top HAF Fiction Award for a non – Hong Kong project.