Amit Patel is a filmmaker and an actor based in East Windsor, New Jersey who was born in india. He currently works as a full-time program manager/PMO and is also an Entrepreneur.
Amit has completed his Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science while performing part-time as an actor. He has performed in TV series and also in many stage acts during his childhood. He used to direct acts during his college days.
Amit has been writing stories and screenplays and directing them to tell those stories in a creative way. He is in love with Film-making. Being an Indie filmmaker, he creates films while wearing different hats as - a writer, director, actor, editor, sound designer, colorist and promoter for his own work.
Amit shot his first Zero budget short film, Corontine: Time to stay home, in 2020 while the whole world was under lockdown during pandemic, which was officially selected in 2 film festivals for best picture and was dedicated to front line workers in pandemic.
Right after that, Amit worked on a very interesting Suspense thriller short, Crosshair: A Tipping Point, which was released in July 2020 by Amazon Prime in USA and UK. This film became truly a reflection of his creativity and art in storytelling, due to the symbolism and audio-visual storytelling techniques, Crosshair: A tipping point, was screened around the world in many film festivals and was officially selected as a best short from a direction, story and an acting point of view.
While being an independent filmmaker, Amit is also shining as a very talented actor in Hollywood films like, Eleos and The final decision.
Amit's dream is to keep directing new films and web-series with professional film makers and actors and is currently building his body of work in that direction. He really enjoys storytelling.