I’ve been a film & video editor since 2008, having worked in creative editorial across the spectrum of formats and genres.

From short narrative to feature films, commercials to film trailers, music videos to motion design, tv shows to title sequences, corporate videos to social media branded content.

I’ve edited 10 independent feature films that have travelled the global festival circuit.

In recent years I’ve expanded into video making as a shooter, director & editor at shrebel.com.

Email me for collabs at shreyasb.work at gmail dot com. Find me here at IMDB.

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Professional History

2024: I edited the coming-of-age drama Boong which is due for a Official Selection / World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2024.

2023: I was the editor and creative producer (remote) on the action thriller drama Stolen, which is due for a Official Selection / World Premiere at the Venice International Film Festival 2023.

2021-2022: I was cinematographer and editor on numerous short films made in New Zealand, along with editing commercials, branded content and promo videos for Kiwi production agencies.

2019-20: I was invited to Paris, France to edit the India-France co-production of Pan Nalin’s latest feature Last Film Show, which became the first Indian film in 21 years to make the 15-film shortlist for the Best International Feature nominations at the 2023 Oscars.

2018-19: I received my Master of Fine Arts (Film) degree at Miramar Creative Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, under the supervision of filmmaker Dr Paul Wolffram, at the end of which I was awarded the Geoff Murphy Emerging Filmmaker scholarship for shooting & editing 5 capstone short films.

2017-18: I was chief editor on 99 Songs, the first feature produced and written by renowned Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman, directed by Vishwesh K. The film world-premiered at Busan International Film Festival 2020 and is available on Netflix dubbed in multiple Indian languages.

2015-16: I was the editor for the international version of the first ever New Zealand and India co-production, the spiritual thriller Beyond The Known World, the original (New Zealand) version of which was edited by Jonno-Woodford Robinson. The film was written by Kiwi screenwriter Dianne Taylor and directed by Indian-French filmmaker Pan Nalin.

2016: I edited Shreelancer, an independent on-the-road dramatic feature which world-premiered at New York Indian Film Festival 2017 and released theatrically in India to positive reviews.

2015: I was editor and executive producer on the ensemble comedy-drama buddy movie Angry Indian Goddesses, directed by Pan Nalin, which won the People’s Choice Award (1st runner up) at Toronto, while also being picked up for distribution across 60 countries, plus releasing in Indian theatres to critical and audience acclaim.

2015: I edited the romantic drama Kaash, directed by fashion photographer Ishaan Nair, which had its world premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2015.

2014: I edited the independent comedy Hola Venky directed by Sandeep Mohan, which was part of his unique distribution experiment called the Great Indian Travelling Cinema.

2014: I edited French artist Natasha de Betak‘s experimental short 2183, which has played at major experimental film festivals including Oaxaca, Mexico and Signe de Nuit, Paris.

2013: I co-edited (with Julie Delord, from France) the feature documentary Faith Connections, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2013 and has been released theatrically in over 20 countries.

2012: I edited the cult series Bring On The Night directed by ad filmmaker and musician Vishwesh K, as well as season 2 of MTV’s popular music show Sound Trippin‘ produced by OML.

2011: I edited my first feature, the independent comedy-drama feature Love, Wrinkle Free. I also edited the highly-acclaimed music travelogue The Dewarists, which won a bronze Cannes Lion for best branded entertainment. 

2008 – 2018: I’ve also dabbled in cutting music videos & commercials, trailers & promos, as well as editorially designing title sequences for films as part of Plexus, a Mumbai-based motion design studio headed by artists Vijesh Rajan and Yashoda Parthasarthy.

2004 – 2008: I did a short but invaluable stint in documentary editing under filmmaker Pankaj Rishi Kumar in 2005. I studied filmmaking at the Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai in 2007, after which I dabbled in the areas of direction, production and postproduction in ad filmmaking with filmmaker Razy Ghai, whose tv commercials and music videos I started editing in 2008.

SHREYAS BELTANGDY

[photographs on this page courtesy Swapnil Sonawane, Linesh Desai and Cora Gu]