Girish Balakrishnan

Girish Balakrishnan is the Senior Manager of Virtual Production at Netflix, enabling the studio's unique roster of creatives with breakthrough real-time technologies & dynamic new collaborative workflows to help democratize the future of filmmaking. Throughout his career, Girish has sat at the intersection of real-time graphics and virtual cinematography working on the R&D of innovative visualization paradigms for creatives. Most recently, his involvement (along side the stunning visual effects teams) in productions such as Disney's The Lion King and Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One helped engage directors, production designers, and DPs through the use of game engine technologies and virtual/augmented reality.

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