Parthiban Shanmugam

A writer and director experience in a wide variety of theater, video, film projects, Parthiban Shanmugam has performed and won several awards world wide at prestigious festivals and theaters.Fact|date=January 2008 Trained as a Defense and Strategic analyst, lawyer, human rights advocate, stand up comic and story teller, he comes from an extensive creative background. He has focused his career on the emerging south Asian culure in the USA. Parthi has been exposed to variety of creative influences from modern western art, eastern philosophy to literature, Hollywood, Bollywood, and everything in between.

Filmography:

Producer:
* That 47 days (2010)
* War Within Us (2009)
* The Ballad of Robert & Haevey aka We Are Not Far Away (2009)
* Osama, Obama, and Parthiban (2009)
* Even the cactus goes to Heaven (2008)
* You're Rejected (2008)
* A Pizza Story (2007)
* Black Men Can Swim (2007)
* Downtime (2007) (V)
* The Celestial Brides (2006)
* Mathamma (2006)

Director:
* That 47 days (2010)
* The Ballad of Robert & Haevey aka We Are Not Far Away (2009)
* Osama, Obama, and Parthiban (2009)
* War Within Us (2009)
* Even the cactus goes to Heaven (2008)
* You're Rejected (2008)
* A Pizza Story (2007)
* Black Men Can't Swim (2007)
* The Celestial Brides (2006)
* Mathamma (2006)

Writer:
* That 47 days (2010)
* Osama, Obama, and Parthiban (2009)
* War Within Us (2009)
* The Ballad of Robert & Haevey aka We Are Not Far Away (2009)
* You're Rejected (2008)
* Even the cactus goes to Heaven (2008)
* A Pizza Story (2007)
* Black Men Can Swim (2007) (screenplay) (story)
* The Celestial Brides (2006)
* Mathamma (2006)

Cinematographer:
* Even the cactus goes to Heaven (2008)
* Osama, Obama, and Parthiban (2009)
* War Within Us (2009)
* The Ballad of Robert & Haevey aka We Are Not Far Away (2009)
* You're Rejected (2008)
* Even the cactus goes to Heaven (2008)

Actor:
* That 47 days (2010)
* Osama, Obama, and Parthiban (2009)
* The Great New Wonderful (2005)
* The Ballad of Robert & Haevey aka We Are Not Far Away (2009)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director:
* Downtime (2007) (V) (first assistant director)