Kanad Rishiraj (Rishi)

Founder

Rishi was studying computer engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia when he met with a freak accident that left him blind just before he was about to graduate. During this time, stories became his refuge and listening to stories and coming up with his own stories became a way to cope. He was fortunate enough to eventually regain vision in one eye and decided that he had to be involved in storytelling in some way. He taught himself filmmaking, made a couple of short films and then started to think about distribution. Soon it became clear that reaching the right audiences is a monumental challenge for independent filmmakers and a lot of amazing films simply get lost because no one finds out about them. Rishi started MovieSaints to solve this problem.