Born in 1988, Piyush Thakur is a filmmaker from Mumbai, India. He is a graduate of the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India. His student short KHARA KARODPATI (The Real Millionaire) was selected at the 34th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, where it competed for the International Grand Prix. He won The Indian Express and the Indian Documentary Producers Association Gold Award for the same film, which travelled globally to more than 75 film festivals, winning multiple awards. In 2012, he got selected for the International Student Film Camp in Serbia, where he edited a Documentary short for Filmart Pozega. In 2014, he worked as an assistant director to Sanjay Leela Bhansali on the period film ‘Bajirao Mastani’. In 2016, he was selected for the Kyoto Filmmakers Lab in Japan, where he worked on a Japanese Samurai short film. In 2017, he was invited by the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea for Platform Busan. THE FIRST FILM is his second short film.