20th Century Fox
Goes from working at Jamba Juice to writing his first script.
Repped by Paradigm
Writer. Director. Founder.
A writer-director and founder building across three worlds — Film & Television, MAMAS®, and Big Soil™ — with one purpose: to leave the story, the table, and the ground better than he found them.
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Sunny has been running around with a camera since he was 8. His first series on YouTube went viral and led to a blind script deal with 20th Century Fox.
“If it involves a good story, a good meal, or a good deed — you have my attention.”
Sunny tells ambitious stories about family, identity and the pressure to become somebody. He loves big worlds, big laughs, and big heart. He misses the good old days of 2000s movies that made you feel like life —and the world— was okay, and he’s doing his best to bring that back.
Goes from working at Jamba Juice to writing his first script.
Original comedy series with Will Arnett’s Electric Ave and Sony TV. Sells to Amazon in a competitive bidding war.
Sunny’s first feature spec, an original dance comedy, developed with Amie Karp and Ivan Reitman, sells to TriStar.
Hired to rewrite a feature already set-up at Netflix.
Sold an original animated feature pitch to Sony Pictures Animation.
Untitled Aladdin Project with a producer of Lord of the Rings.
Writing an animated feature for DreamWorks Animation based on a bestselling book, with David Hoberman producing.
An original feature starring Manny Jacinto with Nicky Weinstock producing.
Two former best friends clash in the high end world of luxury real estate.
Additional projects under NDA.
Get in TouchIn 2025, Sunny became 1 of 15 fellows chosen for the prestigious Rideback Rise Fellowship founded by Dan Lin, the Chairman of Netflix Films.
Sunny wrote and directed a short thanks to Rideback Rise.
It’s now in the festival circuit, and in development as a feature.
An extremely kind and passionate guy who oozes his love of filmmaking the moment you spark a conversation with him.
Tripathy hopes to address harder issues while using comedy as a backbone for bringing people together.
He’s not that good, and his cousin’s a doctor.
Sunny is the co-founder of MAMAS®, a modern food company reintroducing ghee as functional butter. The husband-wife founders bootstrapped their business from farmers markets, and with no outside investors, scaled it to an Amazon #1 New Release. They recently beat out 5000 other brands to get into Target’s Accelerator and are now preparing for a launch into retail.
Planted 2024 — Now Growing
Sunny and Sonia founded Big Soil™, an environmental nonprofit focused on restoring living soil—the thin, biological layer that supports farms, food systems and terrestrial life.
Big Soil begins with public education and local restoration work, while building toward farmer support, scientific partnerships and more accountable food sourcing.
