During his time in the Screenwriting Lab, Thapar will be continuing work on his latest project, Alien Kulture—a feature film about a 19-year-old British Indian with punk-rock ambitions who struggles to find his place in Thatcher-era England and must stand up to his "highly politicized and insular-minded older brother."
As a writer / director, Iesh Thapar has earned several awards for his work. He is a Film Independent Project Involve fellow and has been supported by The BFI Network, The Sundance Institute, Tribeca and the Sloan Foundation. His short film Alien Culture, was nominated best UK short at Raindance and screened at the BFI London Film Festival, Palm Springs and Aspen Shortsfest, to name a few. He is a graduate of the MFA Film program at Columbia University, and is currently developing his first feature Alien Kulture, mini-series The Marble Orchard and TV show We That Are Young with Gaumont.