Raja Choudhury

Raja Choudhury is a National Film Award (India) winning documentary filmmaker who makes films about India, Indian History, Wisdom, Consciousness, and Spirituality. Trained as an Architect at London's AA School of Architecture, he entered the world of media as the art director and co-producer of the 2000 PBS ChannelThirteen Documentary Film "Desi: The South Asians of New York." In 2007 he produced and directed his first documentary film "Spirituality in the Modern World: A Dialogue with Ken Wilber and Traleg Rinpoche". In 2010 he produced the acclaimed film "The Modern Mystic" on spiritual teacher Sri M and then "I Believe" on Dr. Karan Singh. He was commissioned by PSBT (The Public Service Broadcasting Trust) and the Indian Ministry of External Affairs to produce 2 films on Indian History. The first was a seminal film on Yoga called "Yoga Aligning to the Source" and the other "The Quantum Indians" told the story of the 3 Indian scientists who revolutionized the world of Physic in the 1920s. The films were released in 2014 and The Quantum Indians was awarded the prestigious National Film Award by the President of India in 2015. That year he was commissioned to make the International film celebrating the first International Day of Yoga called "Yoga Harmony With Nature" which was shown all over the World. He then produced films on other great Indian wisdom masters and teachers. He is currently producing his first film for US Public Television PBS entitled "America's First Guru" which tells the story of how the arrival of a forgotten Indian monk called Swami Vivekananda in 1893 in Chicago brought Yoga, Meditation the higher ideals of Hinduism into the popular American conversation. The film is set for completion in 2022 and is presented by WTTW Chicago. Raja lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, daughter, and dog.