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TechNous

"TechNous" is about the power of tech money to change the nature of the sibling rivalry between two immigrant brothers, where the struggling liberal arts Professor undergoes a moral transformation as he sees his brother make it big in Silicon Valley.

  • NISHI CHAWLA
    Director
  • NISHI CHAWLA
    Writer
  • "Inclusive Arts Ensemble"
    Producer
  • Adam Lapallo
    Key Cast
    "Ilya"
  • David Patrick Wittle
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 40 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Red Epic
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - NISHI CHAWLA

Nishi Chawla has written and directed three independent movies titled, "Mixed Up," "The Strange Case Of Normalcy" and "TechNous."
"Mixed Up" was released on Amazon Prime in 2021 in the US.
"The Strange Case of Normalcy" will be streaming by August 2023. "TechNous" was completed in May 2023.
Nishi Chawla writes on social issues, and makes independent art house movies.

Nishi Chawla is also an academician and a writer.  She has  six collections of poetry, ten plays, three feature length movies, and two novels, to her credit. She has also co edited an anthology of poems, "Singing in the Dark," with K Satchidanandan in 2020. The book has been published by Penguin Random House. Another poetry anthology, "Greening the Earth" will be published by Penguin in May 2023.Nishi Chawla holds a Ph. D. in English from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. USA. She has also done a two year post doctoral study at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. After teaching for nearly twenty years as a tenured Professor of English at Delhi University, India, she had migrated with her family to a suburb of Washington D.C. She has taught at the University of Maryland from 1999 until 2014. She is now on the faculty of Thomas Edison State University, New Jersey, USA.
Nishi Chawla's plays get staged both in USA and in India.

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Director Statement

Against a narrated description of the history of the wild west, two brothers, Ilya and Kostya, meet in a small American town. Kostya has just got his pot of gold in the silicon valley and cannot believe his own luck. His simple technical idea has landed him with several hundred million dollars, and he is now less than 30 and incredibly wealthy! He chides his older brother for his wrong career choice, and Ilya cannot help feeling conflicted and almost jealous of his younger brother whose success is unimaginable.

TechNous" tries to capture the philosophical underside of the information revolution even as it traces the boom and bust of the dot com era. This is not a defining portrait of a young man caught in the gold rush of the silicon valley boom years. The story aims to evoke the philosophical underpinnings of the whirlwind that arose in the silicon valley. This story is about sibling rivalry in the excitement involved with accomplishing anything in this environment.