Breakthrough Junior Challenge Finalist
Jackson Wild Media Fellow
Golden Lion Awards - 1st Place 5x
Hodson Trust Scholar
NATAS Emmy Scholarship
NYU Featured Student
Civic Life Project Film Festival 1st Place
Breakthrough Junior Challenge Finalist Jackson Wild Media Fellow Golden Lion Awards - 1st Place 5x Hodson Trust Scholar NATAS Emmy Scholarship NYU Featured Student Civic Life Project Film Festival 1st Place
Amogh Thakkar
A junior in college, Amogh interests are in the combinations of science and art. Astrophysics filmmaking. Neuroscience visual art. Mathematical music. He grew up in Maryland, interning for production companies, then attended NYU studying mathematics and filmmaking, simultaneously interning at NASA, StorySyndicate and Lucky8 TV. There he created science-art for Netflix and NASA Goddard. His own company, artfilm, has created videos for the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute and David Eagleman’s NeoSensory. His films have swept the Golden Lion Awards, earned him the NATAS Emmy Scholarship, and allowed him to be the youngest ever Jackson Wild Media Fellow. His future aims are to perform research in mathematics, neuroscience, and astrophysics while representing the new knowledge through interactive art.
NASA
Netflix
Discovery Channel
Johns Hopkins
NeoSensory
NASA Netflix Discovery Channel Johns Hopkins NeoSensory