HUNTER DARU(KHANAVALA)

is a Filipino-Indian-American, self-taught director/cinematographer/editor from the suburbs of Chicago, IL.

His work blurs the line between beauty and melancholy, pushing creative boundaries to evoke powerful emotion through haunting imagery and raw human moments.

His cinematography, photography, and visual style captures the attention of a 50k follower audience, spanning across a wide outreach of several millions of views.

He is also a co-founder of the freshest, up-and-coming creative production company, HAT Studios, based in Hawaiʻi and Chicago.

Aside from filmmaking, he also reps the fashion world signed in NYC, having been featured in Vogue Philippines.