Agneya Singh
Agneya Singh is an Indian independent filmmaker, visual artist and documentary photographer. His mother is the journalist Seema Mustafa.
Career
Starting out as a documentary filmmaker and photographer, Agneya is to the forefront of the revolutionary new wave of Indian cinema. He has worked as a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and production sound mixer on various films, including documentaries, that are related to the cultural exploration of the relationship between individual human beings and the society wherein they live.
Short films produced by Singh include Esther Raped (2009), which explores the relationship between a young African-American soldier deployed to Iraq and the girlfriend who must bid him farewell; Significant Non-Happenings on Sugar Hill (2010), which follows the struggles of a young African-American girl named Whitney (Lela Bryant) as she attempts to reconcile her own ambitions with the hideous realities of her existence and the area in which she lives;[1] and Red Lamas (2010), which uses poetic metaphors to explore Tibet's struggle with China and the West's lack of concern for Tibet.
In 2011, Singh graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts, one of the fifteen schools that make up New York University. In 2012, Singh was working on a feature film titled M Cream, slated release around December 28, shooting in various parts of New Delhi and Himachal Pradesh.[2][3][4]