Founder & CEO of Amour Films

Ishq Pradhan is a New York-based writer, director, and producer, and a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her work blends poetic intimacy with bold psychological depth, exploring themes of identity, trauma, and politics through emotionally charged narratives.

Her most recent film, Portrait, set in the world of war journalism, examines how conflict shapes our understanding of empathy. The film was executive produced by Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom, HBO), Omar Mullick (Flight/Risk, Amazon), and Suroosh Alvi (Founder, VICE).

Previously, she wrote, directed, and starred in Tadap, a harrowing look at child marriage in India. The film premiered at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival and the International South Asian Film Festival, and was a Semi-Finalist at the Academy Award- and BAFTA-qualifying Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival.

Ishq has worked under and been mentored by acclaimed filmmakers Lara Shapiro and Vikramaditya Motwane, a pioneer of Indian independent cinema. Her screenwriting has been recognized by the LA Femme International Film Festival, Screencraft, and The Black List.

Bianca is an actor, dancer, writer, producer, and a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts studying Drama and Classical Acting respectively. Bianca is deeply passionate about the human condition and leads with the understanding that artists and therapists work tangential, both studying the relationship between behavior and psychology. She has been described as an intellectual and instinctual artist, pairing her deep sensitivity and empathy with a love for curious analysis and extensive preparation. 

Upon graduating, Bianca made her professional debut with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and has recently completed two California-wide tours with the company as Rosalind in ‘As You Like It’ and Helena in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. In addition, Bianca has had the immense privilege of bringing several new works to life in the independent film and regional theater scenes and is exploring how she can continue honing her craft as a performer and apply it to her work as a writer and producer.

Bianca is drawn to the fact that the exchanging of stories plays a critical and beautiful role in how we understand ourselves and connect with others. Driven by that, she works to tell intimate, relationship-driven stories that exhibit authenticity and vulnerability to help others know that they are not alone and embrace their most courageous, complex, and human selves.