meet the founder
South Asian Productions was founded by Trisha Batra in 2019 as an Instagram page to showcase her talented friends and family. In her last quarter of college, she attended an after-party that occurred after Spring Splash at the University of California Riverside.
At the party, she and her friends started to discuss their post-grad plans. She was shocked to find out that most of them were quitting their creative passions to focus on their corporate jobs. They complained about the lack of support within the South Asian creative community – especially how difficult it was to get opportunities without a large social media presence. After she left the party, she couldn’t sleep and created an Instagram page with ideas to share with her friends.
Just a few months later the Instagram page started to go viral…reaching 20,000 followers in just under one year. During the pandemic, she hosted 60 ‘Coffee with Creatives’ workshops through zoom that brought in South Asian creatives from all over the world.
Her goal is to create the largest South Asian creative community online. She would like every South Asian creative to find a home within South Asian Productions by engaging audiences through our podcast, college ambassador program, blog, monthly newsletter, career development workshops, and more.