Filmmaker
Satyanshu Singh is a National Award-winning filmmaker, writer and professor of cinema, best known for his Netflix series Black Warrant, for which he won several awards, including Filmfare Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay.
A medicine graduate, Satyanshu entered the film industry by writing poems for Udaan (2010) and made his feature directorial debut with Chintu Ka Birthday (2019). He later directed the web series Jehanabad (2023), streaming on SonyLIV. On Black Warrant, he served as writer, director and showrunner with Vikramaditya Motwane.
As a script consultant, Satyanshu has worked with AIB, SonyLiv, and Kommune. He has also worked as a mentor on Netflix projects in Germany, Thailand, and the Netherlands, while also being part of a mentorship programme with Quezon City Film Commission in the Philippines.
Satyanshu has been teaching for 14 years now, and is a guest lecturer/mentor at premium Indian film schools such as FTII, SRFTI and Whistling Woods. He conducted two batches of AIB First Draft - a six-month residency program for writers. Many of Satyanshu's students are now working professionals in the film industry having worked in projects like 'Sacred Games', 'Gullak', 'Jubilee', 'Call Me Bae', 'Adarsh Baal Vidyalaya', and so on.
He has co-authored the Hindi screenwriting book Idea Se Parde Tak and created an online screenwriting masterclass with Film Companion. His work continues to bridge filmmaking, education, and mentorship, with storytelling at the heart of all three.