Rohan Rao is an award winning filmmaker whose films have been a part of the prestigious DOC NYC festival in New York City for two consecutive years and also several other international film festivals.

He has worked for Little Monster Films in New York where he collaborated with Academy Award winners Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi on several documentary films for National Geographic. Independently, he has also shot and edited, ‘A Man of his Time’, for Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons.

Rohan Rao was awarded the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award by the School of Visual Arts in 2020 for Exceptional Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking, where he graduated with an MFA in filmmaking. During the program, Academy Award winner Ross Kauffman and Princess Grace awardee Amitabh Joshi served as his creative advisors.

Rohan interned at NDTV Goodtimes under Sharon Pinto after finishing his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the prestigious St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.

At 17 years of age, after finishing his schooling, Rohan interned with filmmaker Tavishi Alagh and her ADJB Productions in New Delhi on A Billion and One Voices where he was an integral part in the making of 76 short documentary films for the Indian National Congress. On the project he worked with Academy-Award winning cinematographer Benjamin Wolf and cinematographer, Karan Thapliyal (Writing with Fire).

Currently, he is editing an independent documentary film on the blindness community for the USA based TV journalist, Lisa Durden.