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PrashanthGunasekaran

  • Director
  • Producer
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Malaysian-born filmmaker Prashanth Gunasekaran studied both science and theatre at the University of Otago before stepping into the screen industry. He began as an assistant director on Auckland indie romance Urban Turban (2014). Gunasekaran went on to direct a run of short films including Irumanam (2017), Don’t F With Me (2022), and For Thom (2023). He has also worked across production for several international feature films. In 2024 Gunasekaran co-directed another feature, castaway romance Stranded Pearl, set in the Cook Islands. Alongside his film work, Gunasekaran is also a practicing physiotherapist.

Screenography

2024 Co-Director, As: Sid Film
For Thom
2023 Producer, Assistant Director Short film
The Trade
2023 Director, Producer Short film
Don't 'F' with Me
2022 Director, Producer Short film
The Art of Kung Fu
2021 Director Short film

“As a storyteller from an underrepresented community, every frame of film becomes more than just art — it becomes reclamation, a voice where silence once was. Filming Stranded Pearl in the Cook Islands wasn’t just a challenge: it was a return. The land, the people, the story — it all reminded me that our voices may be small in number, but they run deep like the ocean.”

Prasanth Gunasekaran