Obelisk Studios and TDH Systems, a partnership built on the work.
Kshitij and Siddharth met as MFA Cinematography students at the New York Film Academy, both trained under BAFTA Lifetime Achievement recipient Anthony B. Richmond, ASC, BSC. What began as classmates became years of working together (Kshitij behind the camera, Sid producing) across short films that travelled from the New York International Film Festival to the International Film & Entertainment Festival of Australia to Cannes Marché du Film. Different roles each time, same shared instinct about what makes a picture work.
Before the MFA, Siddharth completed a degree in Computer Science and Communication Engineering, the path that now powers Grace's backend and the partnership's technical work.
Obelisk Studios and TDH Systems are what happens when that work gets formalized. The vision was never a corporate value. It's just how the work has always gotten made.
The partnership is structured as two independent studios, working on the same picture from opposite sides. One shapes what gets seen. The other builds what makes it run.
The picture side. Operates the post house, leads Grace's American business, runs conversations with productions and clients. Shapes the creative direction, the user experience, the industry presence. The studio of record for everything that ships under the Obelisk name.
The engineering side. Builds and runs Grace's backend, infrastructure, and the technical systems that make the platform real. The work nobody sees but that everything the studio ships depends on. Long-form thinking on architecture, scaling, and what gets built next.
Kshitij Kapil is an award-winning cinematographer and colorist with nearly a decade of experience. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Cinematography from the New York Film Academy and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film from Syracuse University. He has had the privilege of being mentored by acclaimed cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond, ASC, BSC. His work spans short films, feature films, documentaries, music videos, and commercials, with a consistent focus on achieving superior image quality and serving the story with intention. Kshitij's cinematography has been recognized at well-established festivals such as WorldFest Houston International Film Festival and IndieX Film Festival.
Read more↗Siddharth Agrawal is a producer and Director of Photography based in Los Angeles, with experience across 100+ productions in film, commercial, and post-production. He holds an MFA in Cinematography from the New York Film Academy, where he trained under BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Anthony B. Richmond, ASC, BSC. Before that, he completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Communication Engineering, the foundation that now powers Grace's backend and TDH Systems' technical work. His films have been recognized at the Cannes Marché du Film, International New York Film Festival, Los Angeles International Film Festival, and the International Film & Entertainment Festival of Australia, where he won Best Production.
Read more↗Films from the partners, together and apart. Each one carried through some part of the cycle the studio now serves.
An emotionally drained young fighter carrying the ache of her late father must summon the strength to outlast her bitter rival in the stale heat of an empty gym.
Piroba is a gritty, intimate portrait of a young female boxer navigating the brutal world of underground fighting while confronting the ghosts of her past. The film explores themes of identity, resilience, and the price of ambition, shot with a raw, visceral energy that places the audience ringside for every blow.
As a desperate father turns to a psychic medium to find his missing wife, his skeptical daughter begins to unravel the unsettling truth behind the séance, and the hidden motives that could cost them everything.
Exsanguination is a tense, atmospheric descent into grief, belief, and manipulation. When Lily reluctantly accompanies her father to a psychic medium in hopes of finding her missing mother, what begins as a fragile act of desperation slowly unravels into something far more disturbing. As the night deepens, Lily's skepticism sharpens, and the line between truth and deception blurs within the claustrophobic setting. With an eerie, slow-burning intensity, the film explores the emotional cost of loss and the dangerous lengths people will go to for closure.
Alex, a talented young dancer at a crossroads in his life, grapples with choices that will define his career and relationships.
Torn between a promising dance tour with the enthralling Maya and a stable emotional connection with his childhood friend Emily, Alex comes to realize that the dance of life requires a balance between passion and stability. The film culminates in Alex's solo dance, a fusion piece symbolizing his internal harmony. The story unfolds as an ode to life's complexities and the courage it takes to make a choice.
A grieving young boy and his emotionally distant father are forced to confront their shared loss when a mysterious supernatural encounter challenges the silence between them.
The Night the Sky Fell is a poignant, atmospheric exploration of grief, distance, and quiet healing. Through the eyes of a young boy mourning his brother, the film captures the fragile, unspoken tension between a father and son struggling to reconnect. When an otherworldly presence disrupts their reality, it becomes a catalyst for confronting the emotions they've both buried. Blending subtle sci-fi elements with grounded emotional truth, the film reflects on loss, faith, and the small, powerful moments that can begin to mend what feels irreparably broken.
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