One point of view.
A dozen arenas.

I'm Manan Pandya, an award-winning creative director, writer, and director based in Philadelphia. I specialize in creating content for major global brands, online platforms, and social justice initiatives, and I'm at my best when the brief is ambitious and the deadline is real.

My career runs through luxury hospitality copy for Hilton, Waldorf Astoria, Hyatt, and Equinox, Telly Award-winning documentary work at WebMD, the front office of a professional cricket franchise in the Caribbean, the creative direction of a national diaspora media network, a record-breaking nonprofit fundraising campaign, and the management of a congressional campaign in PA-01. The common thread is simple: I find the story, build the system that tells it, and ship.

I also make my own work. Under the name Taizu, I've released over 65 original pieces in the last two years alone and passed 4 million streams worldwide. My short film The Whole of Loneliness, which I wrote, directed, produced, scored, and starred in, won Best Experimental Short at VAEFF 2025 and Best Short Film at PRISM Pride 2025. I co-founded XVII Records, a Philadelphia collective building queer and allied voices in the local creative scene.

Tenacious. Endlessly curious. Passionate about telling people-centered stories that shine a light on ways to make things better.