Manauvaskar Kublall

Manauvaskar Kublall is an immigrant artist, filmmaker, and cultural organizer whose work lives at the intersection of storytelling, community, and transformation. His practice moves between documentary film and public space, centering voices and histories often pushed to the margins. His first nationally televised film, American Beatboxer (2013), was inducted into the Archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and The Hip Hop Archives at Harvard University. His current feature documentary explores a community’s fight for self-determination in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood.

As co-founder of Media Sutra and a founding member of the Woodbury Arts Council, Manauvaskar building from his work on the screen into shared civic life—creating spaces where artists and communities can gather, create, and be seen. Rooted in his Indo-Caribbean heritage, his work seeks to dissolve boundaries between art and life, inviting connection, visibility, and collective imagination.