Aneri Shah Studios. ASS for short. A multidisciplinary production house telling bold, raw, comedic stories about love, sex, connection, and identity through a South Asian woman’s lens.
We develop documentaries, video podcasts, TV series, and emotionally intelligent voice characters designed to surface the confessions, contradictions, and uncomfortably raw truths that make us human. Stories that travel across big screens, little screens, audio feeds, and the spaces in between.
Founded by writer, comedian, filmmaker, and tech entrepreneur Aneri Shah, the studio brings together cinematic storytelling with emerging technologies to tell stories about women who are complex, flawed, hilarious, culturally specific, and fully human - expanding who gets to take up space.
Not Quite | Podcast
A space with no limits for the misfits, the artists, the perpetual reinventers, and public figures whose headlines rarely reflect their truth.
Where creatives, entrepreneurs, deep thinkers, and cultural icons unpack the gap between how they are perceived vs. who they actually are.
Because most people…are not quite…what you think.
Lives on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok
A slice-of-life feature documentary intimately following 6 South Asian and Black female emergency medical physicians throughout the early days of the pandemic in New York. Acquired for distribution.
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I’m Doing My Job | Film
“It brought a lot of different emotions including tears. These young women you have documented and so many others that I know personally, lived through a nightmare that few knew about. This documentary tells so much more about them in addition to their challenges during the pandemic. Women in general, and moreso, brown and black women will need to continue to be stronger and raise their voices to be heard. ”
Not Quite | TV Series
A Brooklyn-based podcaster in her mid-thirties comes out, blows up her long-term relationship, and starts choosing curiosity over certainty. Herself over her parents. Meanwhile, her best girlfriend in a “perfect on paper” marriage questions her own choices.
Not Quite is a half-hour dramedy following two South Asian women who continuously realize their most defining relationship might be with each other.
Blends the confessional intimacy of Fleabag with the psychological depth of I May Destroy You and the friendship dynamics of Broad City.
Pilot written. Currently packaging.
