Akash Shukla
BLUE GOLD
India, 2023, 23 min
After a desperate laborer from the lower caste steals water from the local Brahmin temple, he is banished from his water-impoverished village, forcing him to take destiny into his own hands.
Akash Shukla
Writer, Director and Producer currently based in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was born and raised in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. After graduating high school, he interned at Post House Studios in Mumbai for a year. At the age of 19, he moved to the US in 2019 and has worked on several independent film sets. He produced a short-film “The Bench” in March of 2022, which got an honorable mention at the Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival. He has a keen interest in film, arts, and culture and believes that music and art shapes society.
