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OUR STORY

Meera Joshi - Founder

Meera is a filmmaker and documentarian who loves to investigate our connection to each other and the planet through her work. She was born in New Zealand, raised in Australia and moved to New York City to study film at NYU. Driven by her curious spirit, Meera has made short films with farmers in the Andes of Peru and entrepreneurial villagers in India. Her short films have aired on Australian television, been featured in the New York Times and have played at film festivals internationally. Meera uses skills honed from documentary filmmaking when crafting her scripted projects, thoughtfully researching protagonists with different lived experiences than her own.

Meera has worked with large companies such as Google and Bloomberg as well as small businesses. She strongly believes in the power of community and has been an active member of collectives including Pano, WOCU, Kalakars and the Pan Asian Screen Collective. She currently produces and directs commercial, narrative and documentary projects for Darling Street Pictures.

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Eric Mann - Founder

Eric Mann is a filmmaker and documentarian who grew up loving the classic films he’d see with his dad at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. He first learned filmmaking with his brothers on a $74 Tyco Black and White camera that recorded via the VCR. He went on to attend New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts for Film & TV, but left to travel across India with a Canon 7D to make short films. Upon returning to New York, he freelanced until starting full-time work as an overnight editor for Bloomberg News, covering the London time block.

First solely focused on narrative film, his news experience inspired him to pursue non-fiction projects as well. It was during this time he also met his collaborator, Meera Joshi, and they traveled to Peru to teach themselves how to make documentaries. This work was the seed for what would eventually evolve into their production company, Darling Street Pictures.

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DARLING STREET PICTURES

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