Tarun Saldanha

Tarun Saldhana is a competent producer and archive producer, excelling in producing factual documentaries. He was born in May 1981 in Bangalore and later shifter to Bristol, United Kingdom. He pursued Broadcast Journalism from Asian College of Journalism. He is a non-fiction television practitioner and documentary filmmaker with an excellent track record for producing innovative, high-end and cinematic content for global broadcasters and SVODs. He has multifaceted experience in international broadcast production covering a decade of work on highly commended documentaries. He worked as a principal collaborator and cinematographer in his first documentary “Kho-Ki-Pa-Lu” translated as “Up, Down and Sideways” which is a multi-award-winning musical portrait of rice cultivators in Nagaland. He was the location producer for “Great Indian Railways Journey” with Boundless Productions, UK in 2016 broadcasted at BBC TWO. In 2019, he produced a television series “Bad Boy Billionaires: India” with Minnow Films, UK broadcasted on Netflix.

“Who Do You Think You Are?” S11- SBS is produced by him with Warner Bros, Australia. “Crime Stories: India Detectives” is a Netflix documentary-series produced by him with Minnow Films. With Minnow Films only, he worked as a development producer in a documentary presented by Sky Documentaries “Mother Teresa: For the Love of God?” and as Archive Producer in “Mumbai Mafia: Police vs the Underworld” broadcasted on Netflix. Currently, he is working with Passion Pictures as an Archive Producer. Projects with them include “Caught Out: Crime. Corruption. Cricket” on Netflix and “AP Dhillon: First of a Kind” on Amazon Prime. Kho-KI-Pa-Lu won the “Award of Excellence at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2017, and was nominated for “Best Documentary Feature Film” at Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2018, and “Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award” at Ethnocineca, 2018.