Darius Shu

Darius Shu is a British cinematographer known for his work on Queer Parivaar (2022), Peach Paradise (2022), Mical (2020), His Hands (2019) and Secret Child (2019). Darius has always been passionate about shooting beautiful visuals and is able to tell a story through visual poetry as he always thrives to bring out the art within the story. Pardaa (2017) reached the Semi-Finalist of the 44th Student Academy Awards with multiple selections of festivals over in the USA, UK, and India, including being screened at Aesthetica Film Festival in the UK. His second British-Indian television-film, ZEE5 Original Khoj (2019) is now streaming on the largest TV streaming platform in India, ZEE5. He was then appointed to shoot the film Secret Child: The Bridge (2018) in late 2017, based on the true story from the bestselling book, Secret Child, by Gordon Lewis working alongside Fiona Glascott (Brooklyn and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), Austin Taylor and Aaron McCusker (Shameless, Bohemian Rhapsody). The film has won over 20 awards with 19 nominations across the world from Los Angeles, Canada, UK, Asia and Europe including 5 Best Cinematography awards. It premiered at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood at the Oscar Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival 2018 and was nominated Best Period Piece. It is streaming on Youtube's largest award-winning film channel Omeleto to over 2.7million subscribers. Darius had his directorial debut after co-directing, writing, shooting, and producing His Hands with Arron Blake which went on to have a world premiere at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival in New York (2019) and was nominated for Best Narrative Short. His Hands is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video in the US, UK, Canada & Australia, and on Dekkoo. Mark Gatiss, the producer of Netflix/BBC series Dracula and Sherlock, quoted His Hands as, "A beguilingly beautiful gem, Arron Blake and Darius Shu's His Hands defies easy analysis. Shot through with strange, homoerotic melancholy it's ravishing to look at and haunts the memory long after." Later that year, Darius reunited with director Yew Weng Ho on a new dyslexia film, Mical (2020). It follows the true story of Pat and Mike Jones on the struggles and journey of being dyslexic. The film is to create awareness on dyslexia and to support the Dyslexia Trust. The film was officially selected at LA Shorts International Film Festival 2020. It was released on Youtube with rave reviews with over a 1.7 million views and was also made available to stream on Amazon Prime Video in US, UK, Canada and Australia. In 2020, he co-directed, shot, and produced the critically acclaimed film with Arron Blake, I AM Norman (2021), and a new TV mini-series Dogging. H In 2021, Darius produced and shot, Stockholm, with director Tom Wright, supported by Arts Council England which was selected to premiere at BFI Flare London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival 2022. He also filmed and directed a music video for the winner of Rupaul's Drag Race, The Vivienne for her latest single Bitch on Heels. Darius also directed and shot a music video for Billy Cullum's latest song Kiss Away featuring Omari Douglas from the hit Channel 4/HBO Max television series, Its A Sin, and a music video with Tia Kofi for her new single, Loving Me Like That. Darius' latest project is with director Shiva Raichandani for a drama-musical Queer Parivaar and their Netflix original documentary Peach Paradise. He is also the producer and cinematographer on a new Sky Arts film, Sent to Cov, directed by Tom Wright, set to release on TV in Spring 2022.