<p>Born and raised in Bengaluru, Varun Viswanath has been nominated, along with Patrick Tuck, at the 76th Emmy Awards in the category, Outstanding Picture Editing for a Single-Camera Comedy Series for the television series ‘Reservation Dogs’. </p>.<p>‘Reservation Dogs’ is an American comedy-drama series created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi. The series, which first aired on Hulu, follows four indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma. It is currently streaming on Hotstar. </p>.<p>Varun who is now based out of Los Angeles, edited short films directed by Kannada film director Hemanth M Rao (of the ‘Sapta Sagaradaache Ello’ fame), before going on to study film editing at the American Film Institute (AFI), a conservatory in Hollywood. </p>.<p>At AFI, Varun edited eight short films and interned as an assistant editor on a feature documentary at Varsity Pictures. His thesis film ‘Samnang’ (directed by Asaph Polonsky) was nominated for a Student Academy Award, and premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2013. </p>.<p>He then worked on Ravi Kapoor’s first feature, ‘Miss India America’.</p>.<p>‘Arrested Development’, ‘I Am Not Okay with This’, ‘Florida Man’ and ‘What We Do In The Shadows’ are some of the TV series he has edited. </p>.Emmy Nominations 2024: Top 10 Most-Nominated Shows.<p>‘What We Do In the Shadows’ earned Varun an American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Award nomination. He later received the ACE accreditation (highest honour for a Film Editor).</p>.<p>Speaking about the kind of relationship he shares with his directors, Varun says, “I find myself often feeling like a therapist or a cheer leader to the director. They feel the entire weight of the project on their shoulders, and a significant portion of that stress comes during the editing process. That’s when you really know if you have your movie or not.”</p>.<p>Varun wishes the directors talk about their editors and the relationship they share more in public or to the press. “I think it’s a key relationship and process that is so integral to a film. But even people in the industry don’t fully understand or appreciate it,” he tells Showtime.</p>
<p>Born and raised in Bengaluru, Varun Viswanath has been nominated, along with Patrick Tuck, at the 76th Emmy Awards in the category, Outstanding Picture Editing for a Single-Camera Comedy Series for the television series ‘Reservation Dogs’. </p>.<p>‘Reservation Dogs’ is an American comedy-drama series created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi. The series, which first aired on Hulu, follows four indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma. It is currently streaming on Hotstar. </p>.<p>Varun who is now based out of Los Angeles, edited short films directed by Kannada film director Hemanth M Rao (of the ‘Sapta Sagaradaache Ello’ fame), before going on to study film editing at the American Film Institute (AFI), a conservatory in Hollywood. </p>.<p>At AFI, Varun edited eight short films and interned as an assistant editor on a feature documentary at Varsity Pictures. His thesis film ‘Samnang’ (directed by Asaph Polonsky) was nominated for a Student Academy Award, and premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2013. </p>.<p>He then worked on Ravi Kapoor’s first feature, ‘Miss India America’.</p>.<p>‘Arrested Development’, ‘I Am Not Okay with This’, ‘Florida Man’ and ‘What We Do In The Shadows’ are some of the TV series he has edited. </p>.Emmy Nominations 2024: Top 10 Most-Nominated Shows.<p>‘What We Do In the Shadows’ earned Varun an American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Award nomination. He later received the ACE accreditation (highest honour for a Film Editor).</p>.<p>Speaking about the kind of relationship he shares with his directors, Varun says, “I find myself often feeling like a therapist or a cheer leader to the director. They feel the entire weight of the project on their shoulders, and a significant portion of that stress comes during the editing process. That’s when you really know if you have your movie or not.”</p>.<p>Varun wishes the directors talk about their editors and the relationship they share more in public or to the press. “I think it’s a key relationship and process that is so integral to a film. But even people in the industry don’t fully understand or appreciate it,” he tells Showtime.</p>