Sharat Raju

Sharat Raju
Born Chicago
Occupation Filmmaker, Director
Years active 2003–present
Spouse(s) Valarie Kaur

Sharat Raju is an Indian-American director and writer, known for creating documentaries and films pertaining to the lives of immigrants in American society.

Works

Raju co-founded the Yale Visual Law Project and co-produced three documentary short films as a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. Raju’s first film, American Made, won 17 film festival awards and aired nationally on PBS’s “Independent Lens.[1] American Made was Raju's Masters thesis while studying at the American film Institute.[2]

In September 2004, Raju was named by Esquire Magazine as one of the 20 young film directors to watch. Prior to graduate school he worked for acclaimed casting director Mali Finn on feature films including 8 Mile, Matrix Revolutions, and Matrix Reloaded.[2]

Raju has collaborated on many of his works with his wife, Valarie Kaur; Divided We Fall (2008) was Raju's first film created in partnership with his wife. The couple has made other documentary films including: Stigma (2011),[3] which highlights the impact of New York City police’s “Stop and Frisk” policy; Alienation (2011),[4] about immigration raids; The Worst of the Worst: Portrait of a Supermax (2012),[5] a documentary on the use of solitary confinement in prison; and Oak Creek: In Memorium (2012),[6] a short film about the 2012 mass shooting at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin. He has also directed episodes of famous TV shows like Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, NCIS: New Orleans, Criminal Minds and Mistresses.[7]

Filmography

Television

Title Year Episode Notes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit[7] 2014-2015 2 Episodes
Finding Carter[7] 2015 Episode: "The Sheltering Sky"
Mistresses[7] 2016 2 Episodes
How to Get Away With Murder[7] 2016 Episode: "Is Someone Really Dead?"
Scandal[7] 2016- 3 Episodes

Personal life

Raju grew up in Darien, Illinois and went to Hinsdale South High School. He is the former sports editor of the student paper at the University of Michigan, and he worked as a freelance reporter for the Daily Herald in northern Illinois.[7] Raju lives with his wife Valarie Kaur in Los Angeles, CA.[8] Raju's brother, Manu Raju, is a veteran Washington D.C. political reporter and is currently Senior Congressional Correspondent for CNN.

See also

Valarie Kaur

References

  1. ↑ "Sharat Raju". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Sharat Raju". Independent Lens. PBS. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Stigma". yalevisuallawproject.org. Archived from the original on 2016-06-27. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
  4. ↑ "Alienation". yalevisuallawproject.org. Archived from the original on 2012-12-12. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
  5. ↑ "The Worst of the Worst". yalevisuallawproject.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-20. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
  6. ↑ "Remembering The Oak Creek Tragedy In Film". The Huffington Post. 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0961594/
  8. ↑ "Valarie Kaur". cyberlaw.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
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