Neil Tuli is a writer-director, producer, and musician whose work explores tension and comedy in Immigrant-American culture, music, and small communities. A songwriter-turned-editor, he began his career in Boston, MA working on films including Ted and American Hustle before moving into editing, motion design, and eventually business development and strategy roles at Illumination and Netflix. Neil wrote and directed the award-winning short Birdie Cricket and is currently making his feature directorial debut with ARYA. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his family.

"I started American Haathi films to form a slate that showcases the kinds of slice-of-life, heart-and-humor, American stories that I and my peers grew up around but never saw explored in modern indie cinema."