Siddharth Chauhan

Siddharth Chauhan, born in 1990, is an award-winning Indian independent filmmaker from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. He was awarded the "Youth Achiever" award by Hindustan Times Group in August 2014. Chauhan has not received any professional training in this field. His films have been screened across countries including Sarajevo, England, the US, Belarus, Indonesia, New Zealand, Italy and France. He is the youngest and the first independent filmmaker from Himachal Pradesh to have continuously taken his locally produced films outside India.

His docu-fiction, Boys Don't Wear Nailpolish!, based on a sensitive gender issue, was awarded the Golden Halo Award. The film was screened at several other film festivals in India and abroad, including Mumbai International Queer Film Festival and ViBGYOR Film Festival. The Carolina Theatre group in the United States also invited the film for a screening in October, 2015.

Siddharth's next independent production, the musical drama The Infinite Space, is a story of a young Buddhist monk who accidentally discovers the secret to infinity. The film featured music of the well known Grammy Award nominee, Tibetan flute player Nawang Khechog, and had its local premiere at the Gaiety Theatre, Shimla. The film was selected to compete at the IDSFFK 2015 International Film Festival of Kerala and was also selected by the University of Manchester UK for their Insight Film Curation scheme 2015.

His latest film, PaPa, premiered at the IDSFFK 2016 International Film Festival of Kerala, where it won the Best Short Fiction Award. His filmmaking style is inspired from the avant garde filmmaking movement, as seen in PaPa, which received the Best Film Award "for its innovation in narrative gesture and wicked understanding of human behaviour."

• Peace is nowhere! (short film, 2012)
• Boys Don't Wear Nailpolish! (short film, 2013)
• The Infinite Space (short film, 2014–15)
• PaPa (short film, 2016)
• Pashi (short film - under production, 2017)
• KARMA (feature film, 2018)