Varun Raman

Varun Raman is a Manchester-based filmmaker, programmer and script reader. He is currently Assistant Director of Shorts Programming at Fantastic Fest and a Programming Associate at SXSW, having previously spent five years at London Short Film Festival. He has assessed projects for organisations including BFI NETWORK, BFI Film Fund, Film London and BFI Doc Society. As a filmmaker, Varun writes and directs with Tom Hancock, working across genre and social satire. Their latest short, Into The Betaverse, a sci-fi slacker comedy, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2026.