Talent Guide

Mahesh Pailoor

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Project Involve 2008, Screenwriting Lab 2012

Bio

Mahesh Pailoor is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker whose short films and commercials have won awards at festivals around the world. A graduate of NYU and AFI, he is a recipient of the Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award, was a 2008 Project Involve Fellow, and was most recently an ABC/DGA Directing Fellow. Pailoor is currently in post-production on his feature film, Brahmin Bulls, starring Sendhil Ramamurthy, Roshan Seth, Mary Steenburgen and Justin Bartha.

Current Project

Asphalt Symphony

Logline

A washed up basketball phenom-turned-recruiter catapults an undiscovered young prodigy from the streets of Detroit into the high stakes world of amateur basketball but then must fight to protect him from following in his tragic footsteps.