Devansh Mathur is an award-winning filmmaker and co-founder of Floating Tiger Films, working at the intersection of cinematic storytelling and emerging AI-driven filmmaking. With a background in direction and cinematography, he studied at Srishti School of Design, Bangalore, and later at the Prague Film School.

Devansh began making films at the age of nine with Birds Through My Window, which won the Golden Tree Award at the Vatavaran Film Festival (2003). His work has since been recognized internationally. In 2008, he was invited to the Global Peace Summit ‘Three Dot Dash’ in New York.

His 2016 short Gotya was the only Indian film selected at the Filmed by Bike Festival (Ohio) and now streams on Disney+ Hotstar. His documentary Uprooted has screened at 15+ international festivals, including Respect Belfast, Auroville, and Stories Lived. Imaging the Unimaginable (2021) was shortlisted for the Sony Asia Pacific World of Film Competition (2022).

His fiction debut Marham Rao was selected for the Journey to Europe Script Lab by the European Union Film Festival in partnership with DIFF and Cineuropa. His short film Alternism has screened at festivals including Dharamshala International Film Festival, Jaipur International Film Festival, Flickfair, and Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films.

Most recently, Devansh co-directed the documentary JJI Exile Brothers (2025), selected as one of ten international projects at DocEdge New Zealand 2025, where it received both the Alexandra Johnes Prize (USA) and the Elemental Legal / The Doc Catcher Prize (New Zealand).

At Floating Tiger Films, Devansh has directed advertising and branded content for global and Indian companies including Adobe, Workday, Reliance Entertainment, Nykaa, Adani, Lodha, Truecaller, Hamleys, JioHotstar, TAFE, Piramal Realty, Godrej, Wipro, Body Shop, Rustomjee, Behrouz Biryani and many others.

Floating Tiger Films was recently recognized at the Economic Times AI Awards 2025, where the studio won the award for “Generative AI for Content and Creativity.”

Devansh also co-directed Migoi, an AI-driven cinematic short film created for Adobe, which premiered at the AI Impact Summit as part of the company’s showcase of emerging generative filmmaking.

He is currently developing two original web series for OTT platforms while continuing to explore new forms of storytelling through AI-driven cinema and visual innovation.