Neeraj Churi is the Founder of Lotus Visual Productions, a film production firm he set up for the sole purpose of producing and promoting South Asian LGBTQ+ films worldwide. Under this banner he had produced fiction and documentary films in India and the UK. Through his organisation, he sponsors the Kashish QDrishti Film Grant given to lgbt+ filmmakers to make Queer Short Films. He has also helped curate the LGBTQ+ program segment for Indian Film Festivals in the UK. He was recently invited to the advisory board of the Samabhav traveling film festival organized by Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA) organization for gender and sexuality sensitization. He is an alumnus of the New York film academy. I also holds degrees in Information science management with extensive experience managing multi-million-dollar projects with top-tier financial institutions in NY and London. His Indian short, Sheer Qorma, won the audience choice award at Frameline 2021. His UK short film production, Queer Parivaar, won the IRIS Prize Best British Short 2022. His first feature film, A Place of our own, selected at the 2022 Cannes film Market as part of NFDC Goes to Cannes, won audience choice award at South By South West film festival 2023 in USA and has played in 30+ film festivals. His next feature in development, Arms Of A Man, was selected for Venice Biennale College Cinema 2022 Mentorship Residency.
