Aneil Karia
Director
Is this you? Claim this profile
Bio
Aneil Karia is a British director and writer whose short Work was BAFTA nominated and whose short Beat screened at 50 festivals. His debut feature Surge, backed by BFI and BBC Films, premiered at Sundance, where star Ben Whishaw won the jury's best actor prize. He directed the finale of Top Boy for Netflix and Kano's UKMVA winning film Trouble. The Long Goodbye, set to Riz Ahmed's track, won the Oscar for best live action short and was the first music video ever recognised by the Academy. He and Ahmed followed it with a contemporary feature version of Hamlet, which premiered at Telluride in 2025.
Links
Filmography
No titles linked yet.



