HELLO, I AM
SHOAIB LOKHANDWALA
Yes, from Lokhandwala.
And yes, I get asked that a lot.
I’m an Indian producer who has spent the last decade and a half telling stories from almost every seat at the table; from
Associate Producer
Assistant Producer
Executive Producer
Creative Producer
before crossing over to the American giants, Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, as a
Studio Executive
I genuinely relished it. But somewhere along the way, I began to miss...
The beautiful mess of building stories from scratch, from the outside. Meeting and discovering storytellers beyond the corporate ecosystem.
Switching between coffee and cutting chai. Solving impossible problems. Living and dying by the strength of an idea. Backing and enabling writing recces far beyond swanky offices, in search of the sweat and grit of stories, and the characters who inhabit them.
So here I am, coming full circle: back to being a
Producer
Producer.
To set the tone for the build phase, I'll be part of Serial Eyes as the first Asian producer selected for Europe's most prestigious television residency. I'm heading there to learn, collaborate and create an Indian - European playbook and lay the foundation for the next decade of storytellers.
to work with exceptional storytellers and make things that move people.
My ambition
Stories that make audiences laugh, cry, argue, question, and occasionally all within the same scene.
If that sounds like your kind of adventure,
I'd love to hear from you.