PRANAY NICHANI
Story Seeker
EXPERIENCE
Media Specialist / Assistant Editor
Toronto, ON - 2018-22
Black Life: A Canadian History
Studio 112 / CBC: Docu Series
Dir: Nadia Louis; Prod: Leslie Norville;
Editor: Mike Munn
WITNESS
Scarborough Pictures / CBC Gem
Short Doc Series. Prod: Amar Wala; Soko Negash
Editor: Caitlin Durlak
72 Summit Series
Mercury Films: CBC Docu Series
Dir/Prod: Nick de Pencier; Robert MacAskill; Ravi Baichwal;
Editor: Mike Munn
Evil By Design
Blue Ant Media
3 Episode CBC/Stars Docu Series
Dir: Deb Wainwright | Editors: Pamela Bayne; Deb Palloway; Barry McMann
Prod: Kim Creelman; Sup: Jeff Bessner
National Film Board |NoticePicturesInc
Dir: Nisha Pahuja | Editor: Dave Kazala, Mike Munn
Prod: Cornelia Principe; David Oppenheim
FIB
Freeframe Entertainment
Dir: Michael Allcock | Editor: Dan Hawkes
Prod: Samara Truster
CRUSH
Red Queen Productions
Dir: Maya Gallus | Editor: Dave Kazala
Prod: Howard Fraiberg
Where I Am (NFB Covid Films)
National Film Board
Dir: Various | Editors: Roslyn Kalloo
Sonia Togobo
Prod: Lea Marin; Justine Pimlott
(Avid Media Composer)
Breakout Media | Tortuga Films
Feature Documentary
Dir: Michael Allcock | Editor: Dan Hawkes
Prod: Lalita Krishna
Bangla Surf Girls
Insync Media,
Chicken and Egg Pictures
Feature Documentary
produced by Lalita Krishna
Untying the Knot
Insync Media | Documentary Channel
Feature Documentary
produced by Lalita Krishna
The Nine
Berkeley, CA - 2014-15
Independent feature directed by Katy
Grannan and produced by Academy
Award nominee Marc Smolowitz
(Managed over 17TB of footage shot
over 4 years)
• Prepping the project for editing
• Organizing footage and logs
• Creating and managing workflows
• Prepping and delivering for final sound
• Creating assemblies and outputs for
editing and online
• Troubleshooting and providing
technical support
• Managing workflow for subtitles
• Co-ordinating and managing
translators and other team members
• Animating vector graphics and text on
Adobe After Effects CC
Editor
Professor - Non-Fiction Editing - Seneca College@ York University
Course: Documentary and Non-Fiction Media Production. (Documentary Film Institute w/ Sunny Yi and John Haslett Cuff)
Toronto, ON - 2022 -
Salt+Light TV
Toronto, ON - 2022
Documentaries for Magazine Style TV Shows :
Behold; FAITOC, etc
National Film Board (NFB- Ontario)
Toronto, ON - 2020 -21
Prod: Anita Lee, Kate Vollum
Open Immersion lab with ImagineNATIVE
Trailer video, and pitch videos for 'Paypura',
'A long time ago', and 'Game of strife'
Intel SuperComputing - Globacore
Toronto, ON 2021
Corporate Videos for Intel.
Schneiders Winter Grilling -The Hatchery
Toronto, ON - 2021
Multiple social media videos for the winter
grilling campaign
Shopper's Drug Mart - Friends & Enemies
Toronto, ON 2021
Health Care and Virtual Care Videos for SDM
Global Pluralism Award Video - Route Eleven
Toronto, ON 2021
Short Docs featuring Global Pluralism Award winners.
Royal LePage
Toronto, ON - 2021
Motion Graphics using google earth studio
locations across Canada
TRANSFER - Resolve Films
Toronto, ON - 2020
Short film - Won Best Editing at International British Film Fest 2020
Toronto, ON - 2020
Docu-style and Web commericals for various Clients such as - Menkes, Tridel, Brixton
7 Dale, Kylemore, etc
Toronto, ON - 2020
Motion Graphics for feature Documentary
Prod: Katy Swailes; Dir: Dennis Mohr
Salt+Light TV
Toronto, ON - 2019
Segment for Magazine Style TV Show.
Toronto, ON - 2019
Ads for Toronto General and Western Hospitals.
Toronto, ON - 2019
TV ads for Medifacts / Brand Power;
Theraflu, Polysporin, Crest 3D White Strips
DMS Video
Vaughan, ON - 2019
Editing Videos for various DMS clients on Contract Basis.
National Film Board (NFB - Ontario)
Toronto, ON - 2019
Edited the 2019 Producer's Reel for the National Film Board of Canada.
Editor / Motion Graphics Artist - LA-INC
Toronto, ON - 2019
Created two Marketing Videos for LA inc developer clients - 'United' and 'Sunday'
Editor / Motion Graphics Artist - InSync Media
Toronto, ON - 2019
Created a series of Motion Graphic Videos for feature doc 'Untying the Knot'.
Editor; DP - Real Life Stories, LA-INC
Toronto, ON - 2018
Documentary style commercials.
Nominated for Best Long Video under
Marketing Category for BILD Awards 2019
Andray & the Giant (Feature
Doc - Ongoing), Liam Kearney Media
Toronto, ON - 2018
Feature Documentary on Toronto Politics
Editor; DP - The Things We Carry
(Mira Godard Gallery), TP Films
Toronto, ON - 2018
Short Film on Artist Michael Thompson’s
exhibit ‘The Things We Carry’
Jutta's Atonement
Toronto, ON -2018
Dir: Theresa Bonello
Short Documentary | official selection at 'Rendezvous with Madness' Film Festival
Rune Entertainment
Toronto, ON - 2017-18
AD for GMC Sierra, GMC Acadia,
Chevrolet Silverado, Chevrolet Cruze -
Commercials (Agency: IsoBar)
Loblaws Canada 150 - Taste of Canada
Commercial Videos. (Agency: 6 degrees)
Various, Calira Media
Toronto, ON - 2016-17
Editing Media for multiple clients
Castrol Squadrann
Episode 3 & 4, Rannvijay Singha
Mumbai, India - 2016
Rannvijay Singha and Castrol
Motorbike stunts webseries
Illusion Bound
Dir: Jagadish Metla
Mumbai, India - 2016
Independent feature film
Vox Parables
Mumbai, India 2015-16
Zandu Balm Mood Video
TVC for Dabur’s Zandu Balm
Mentho Plus Balm Tamil
Mentho Plus Tamil TVC starring Ravana
Fair & Handsome - Winter Cream
Casted and Edited Fair & Handsome
Winter Cream TVC
John McNeil Studio
Berkeley, CA - 2014
Edited various corporate videos such as
Microsoft, Samsung, CapCom, etc
Editor; DP - Ploughed Lives
Mumbai, India - 2010
A short documentary about farmer
suicides in rural Maharashtra, produced
by University of Westminster, London
Direction / Production
Director - Various, And Media
Mumbai, India - 2015-16
Directing, Writing, Cinematography
undertaken for various corporate
projects for clients like Godrej, Navratna,
JWC, Parle, etc
Production Coordinator, Stuart Stone
Casting
San Francisco, CA - 2014
Two State Farm TV commercials
Production Assistant, Warner Brothers/
Village Roadshow/New Line Cinemas
San Francisco, CA - 2014
San Andreas, feature film starring
Dwayne Johnson
Production Assistant, Mortarotti -
Ramirez Productions
San Francisco, CA - 2014
For Vote Yes on Prop A, PSA for
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
Casting Director, New Horizon Pictures
Corp.
San Francisco, CA - 2013-14
For Art School of Horrors (Feature Film)
Coordination, Logistics, etc for entire
cast of the film
Director/Writer, The Exotic Others
San Francisco, CA - 2013
Documentary short film, nominated for
Best Documentary at Epidemic Film
Festival
Audition Manager, Israni
Communications
Mumbai, India - 2008
Conducted Auditions for advertisements
and soap operas for various National TV
channels
EDUCATION
AWARDS
Humber College
Postgraduate Certificate
Toronto - 2018
Radio Broadcasting
DFI - Seneca
Postgraduate Certificate
Toronto - 2017
Documentary and Non-Fiction Media
Production
Academy of Art University
Masters of Fine Arts
California - 2014
Producing/Directing
Rajeev Menon’s Mindscreen Film Institute
Associate Degree
Chennai - 2010
Cinematography
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Mass Media
Mumbai - 2009
Advertising
Best Editing for Short Film 'Transfer' at International British Film Festival 2020
Best Long Video BILDA Awards
Toronto, ON -2019
Inspirational Leadership Award for Crisis
Management
L.S Raheja College
Mumbai
First Prize in Rotaract Short Film Festival
Mumbai
‘Freak’uency; Blitzkrieg
1st rank in Radio Jockeying contest
Mumbai
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