Arun Narayanan (He/Him)

Star, Writer, Producer, Editor

• Worked with the strategy team on the Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International (DTCI) group's Creative Genome project, which collects, categorizes and analyzes metadata (tags) for a wide array of Disney properties, including films and television shows in the STAR WARS and MARVEL franchises, Disney animation and Pixar films, ABC shows like BLACK-ISH and GREY’S ANATOMY, Disney Channel and DisneyXD shows like ANDI MACK and DUCKTALES, and more. Tags include series-level data such as genre and scope, scene-specific data such as character names and locations, storyline-specific data such as character archetypes and motivations, and more. • Reviewed tags collected by other content taggers as part of the quality assurance process. Led quality assurance efforts (i.e. acted as the "comedy expert") during the launch of the humor tagging initiative, in which data was collected about the types and subjects of jokes in BLACK-ISH.

Branded video for Pendry hotels

Branded video for Treehouse Co-Living

Music documentary short film

Highlights video for CHDI Foundation's 2017 & 2018 Huntington's Disease research conferences. Job includes assistant editing, editing, sound design, title and graphics design, and subtitling for 11 different languages.

Original story and teleplay (Unproduced)

Editor and assistant editor for branded web content and agency sizzle reels. Brands include Sephora, CVS, Medium and Wet N Wild.

Commissioned rewrite of independent feature film. The project was an official selection of the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan.

Highlights video for CHDI Foundation's 2016 Huntington's Disease research conference in Palm Springs, CA. Job includes assistant editing, editing, sound design, title and graphics design, as well as creating subtitles for 12 languages. The video is available to watch here: http://chdifoundation.org/video-postcard-from-2016-hd-therapeutics-conference/. I also edited the videos for 2014 and 2015.

Independent feature film starring James Franco, Taryn Manning and Francesca Eastwood: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1785635. Released September 1st, 2017.

Independent horror film starring Olga Kurylenko (QUANTUM OF SOLACE): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1773753.

Video documenting opera conductor and coach Peter Mark's trip to Cuba to begin setting up an opera-focused cultural exchange program with the US.

Original story and teleplay

Independent horror film starring Bruce Davison.

Edited this music video entered into the 2016 NPR Tiny Desk Contest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZUMPz-dWc

Edited the promotional videos, which I also shot, for the start-up fashion company AIE.

Transcode, import, and archive media for multiple reality shows and docu-series, and work with Assistant Editors to resolve media and workflow issues. Recent shows include BREAKTHROUGH (National Geographic), FINDING MY FATHER (Oxygen), and THE KENNEDY FILES (Reelz).

Filmed two 1-minute promotional videos for AIE, a start-up fashion company. I was the only crew member on set, so I acted as cinematographer, camera operator, gaffer, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D606CJo5EpA

Highlights video for CHDI Foundation's 2015 Huntington's Disease research conference in Palm Springs, CA. Job includes assistant editing, editing, sound design, title and graphics design, as well as creating subtitles for 12 languages. The video is available to watch here: http://chdifoundation.org/video-postcard-from-2015-hd-therapeutics-conference/. I also edited the video for 2014.

I contributed story ideas in the writers' room. I received a 'Story' credit on episode 3: Chai Tea. The episodes are available online at http://www.thefobandi.com/

Two pilot episodes were produced in 2014. I edited the second episode, as well as this teaser, which includes clips from both episodes: https://vimeo.com/113942763. The teaser was successfully used to pitch the series to New Form Digital, and new episodes will be produced through USC in 2015.

Edited this 75-second spec for the web

One of two producers of this independent short film, which was a 2014 finalist for the Kodak Student Cinematography Award.

http://www.mofilm.com/video/192042

8-minute highlights video for CHDI Foundation's 2014 Huntington's Disease research conference in Palm Springs, CA. Job included assistant editing, editing, sound design, title and graphics design. View the final video at http://chdifoundation.org/video-postcard-from-2014-hd-therapeutics-conference/