A South Indian Production House
Stories that look small from a distance, and hit hard up close.
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About
Profile
Uptown Films is a South Indian production house making short films and series rooted in the people, hills, and quiet of Karnataka. We tell stories that look small from a distance and hit hard up close.
Our work moves between two threads — original productions, and craft we lend to other filmmakers. We produced the horror short Abishto, and shot Sarangi (2025) — a Kannada psychological thriller streaming on Prime Video. Our next project, Balli Nari, is a vertical series about a real tragedy from the hills of Kodagu and the silence that lets it happen.
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Selected Work
A small, deliberate filmography. Lead with story; everything else is in service of it.
A tribute project to David F. Sandberg — director of Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation, and Shazam!. Atmospheric possession horror in the vein of Sandberg's early independent shorts: cold light, long shadows, and dread that builds in the silence.
Produced by Uptown Films
A gripping psychological thriller. An ordinary man, lost in the forest, encounters a mysterious woman who forces him to confront his deepest moral truths. A dark study of conscience when no one is watching.
Cinematography by Uptown Films · Directed by J. Achar · Yedathorey Junction Films
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In Production
Vertical Web Series · Kodava
The Predator in the Vines
“In the heart of the hills, innocence met its end.”
A fictional drama set in the mist-covered hills of Kodagu. A young girl walks home from school on a day meant for celebration — and the day refuses to end where it should have.
The series questions the silence around forced marriages and the violence that follows rejection — the Nari that lurks not in the forest, but within society.
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