Charu Menon

Background

About Charu Menon

Charu Menon is Executive Producer at the Europe HQ of Heckler Studios, based in Amsterdam. She is a multi-platform producer with more than twelve years of experience in film, TV, advertising and digital content across Australia, India and South East Asia. She has produced award winning TVC campaigns, including Nike’s Hyper Court and Tinder’s Interracial Couple Emoji project. Her global clients include Vodafone, Nike, Adidas, Lego, Pepsi, McDonald’s, IBM and Samsung to name a few. In addition to her work at Heckler, she has produced a documentary short exploring the hotels in the holy Indian city of Varanasi where people of strong faith go to die in the hopes of achieving salvation. The film was broadcast on the ABC in April 2020 and has garnered international attention with broadcasters in Japan, Europe and New Zealand expressing interest in airing the film. The film picked up a Gold tripod at the Australian Cinematographer Society Awards 2020. It is an Official Selection at the two Oscar qualifying festivals St Kilda Film Festival in Melbourne and Doc Edge Film Festival in New Zealand. The film has picked up a Silver for Editing at Oslo International Film Festival and the trailer has also been featured in Best Ads of the World. The film has been shortlisted at the Euregion Film Festival Awards 2020 Charu was recently named as a finalist in B&T’s Women in Media Awards 2019. She was a recipient of the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Media Awards in 2019. She is a delegate speaker at the Emergence Festival 2020 and is a D & AD 2020 judge for the Direction Category.