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The Independent Filmmaker's Playbook: Venk Potula on Financing Indie Films, Beating Imposter Syndrome, and Building a Legacy Without the Studios
He built a production company from short films shot for a few hundred dollars, broke into Tribeca, and landed an IFC release, all without a single studio connection. Venk Potula joins Ritika Agrawal to talk about what it actually takes to finance, direct, and release an independent film as a South Asian filmmaker in America, and why the community's biggest cultural moment in cinema hasn't happened yet.Venk Potula is a multi-hyphenate actor, director, and producer behind Four Samosas (Tribeca 2022, IFC Films) and the upcoming theatrical release Namaslay (August 2025). His directorial feature…
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