Siddharth Chauhan

Siddharth Chauhan is an Indian screenwriter, director, and producer. Hindustan Times Group presented him with the "Young Achiever" award in August 2014. Chauhan is untrained in this area on a professional level. His movies are getting released in Sarajevo, the United Kingdom, the United States, Belarus, Indonesia, New Zealand, Italy, China, Canada, and France. He is the first independent Himachal Pradesh filmmaker to have released every of his domestically made movies outside of India. Amar Colony, Siddharth's first full-length movie, had its world premiere at the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (POFF), where it was awarded the Special Jury Award for "originality of vision." The movie made its Indian premiere at the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), where Siddharth received the Best Debutant Director from India award from the Federation of Film Societies of India. The Golden Halo Prize bagged by his documentary, Boys Don't Wear Nailpolish!, tackles a delicate gender-related topic.

Several other film festivals, including the ViBGYOR Film Festival and the Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, were released both in India and abroad. Also, the movie got invited to a screening by the American Carolina Theatre organization in October 2015. The musical drama The Infinite Space, Siddharth's independent production, tells the tale of a young Buddhist monk who unintentionally discovers the key to the infinite. The well-known Grammy Award nominee Tibetan flutist Nawang Khechog provided the music for the movie, which had its regional premiere at the Gaiety Theatre in Shimla. It was selected to represent Kerala at the 2015 IDSFFK International Film Festival and by the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom for its Insight Film Curation program. PaPa, his short movie, had its world premiere at the IDSFFK 2016 International Film Festival of Kerala, where it took up the Best Short Story Prize.

His approach to filmmaking has been compared to the avant-garde movement, as evidenced by PaPa, which won the Best Film Award "because of its inventive use of narrative gesture and clever comprehension of human behavior. The movie later won the 2017 London Indian Film Festival's Satyajit Ray Award for Best Feature "for its mature storytelling, which strikes the perfect balance between a realistic sense of claustrophobia and irritation and a finely balanced thread of deadpan humor. - Jury, LIFF. His next movie, Pashi, had its US premiere at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, which was Oscar-qualifying. In that 2017 competition, it was the only short movie from India. Afterward, it was released in China and at the Rome Independent Film Festival in Italy. At the Georgian Marietta International Film Festival, Pashi won Best Cinematography. The movie screened at a film festival in Chile, South America, where it won two prizes and received two Honorable Mentions: Best Short Film Award (LGBT), Audience Choice Award (2nd place), and Honorable Mentions for Siddharth Chauhan for Best Director (Short Film) and Chetan Kanwar for Best Young Actor (short film). The World Music & Independent Film Festival, or WMIFF, featured the movie.

The Best Director Award for "Pashi" went to Siddharth at the 2018 WMIFF. "Immersing us into a surprising world of raw emotion and passionate imagination, this fascinating examination of lust and its hazardous urges exposes a brave and razor-sharp budding storyteller," the festival team noted in their review of the movie. The movie is instructive in many ways, from its length to its topics and the numerous storytelling risks it takes ". News media Firstpost gave it a positive response "a dramatic production with ambition. From its runtime to its ideas and the various storytelling risks, it is interesting in more ways than one". At the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2020, The Flying Trunk had its world premiere. The festival described it as a multi-generational tale about loss and memory where Siddharth soulfully explores the distinct mental spaces his characters inhibit as each attempts to cope with the loneliness, hardship, and beauty of their faraway existence.