Film editor & director

Kochi, India / --:-- IST

I cut feature films, commercials and music videos, and I direct. My work includes the feature Qalb (2024) and Seematti’s pan-Indian ad, The Great Indian Saree.

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00Brands & productions

  • Seematti
  • Friday Film House
  • News Malayalam 24x7
  • Swa Diamonds
  • Cedar Home Store
  • ECH
  • Feel at Home
  • Aaranyam
  • Maneraa
  • Tentgram
  • Potafo
  • MAAC
  • FTV Salon
  • MenoVeda
  • Delishh
  • Elinor Jewels
  • Nutcase
  • Paras

01Selected work

Selected work

Commercials, films and music videos, starting with Seematti. Campaigns open as a playlist.

02Feature films

Feature films

Films I’ve cut for the big screen, newest first. Trailers play right here.

Film & music credits

Title / Format / Role

    03Social & performance

    Made for the feed

    Vertical cuts, UGC-style ads and launch reels for Meta, Instagram and YouTube. Hover to preview, clickTap to watch with sound.

    04YouTube

    Breaking films down

    Black Light is my Malayalam film-analysis channel: long-form breakdowns of what makes a film work, and sometimes why it doesn’t.

    Amal Manoj on set, checking a shot on the monitor

    05Direction

    Behind the camera

    I direct too. FIND is a short film I directed and edited. Time on set, directing and supervising shoots, means I know what the edit needs before the camera rolls.

    06Services

    What I do

    From a single social cut to a feature. Hire me for one part of the process or for all of it.

    01

    Video editing

    Features, shorts, commercials and music videos. Structure, rhythm and performance come first, and everything else follows from them.

    • Feature films
    • Commercials
    • Music videos
    02

    Trailers & promos

    Trailers, teasers and launch promos that sell the story without giving it away.

    • Trailers
    • Teasers
    • Launch promos
    03

    AI video production

    AI-generated shots, product visuals and fully AI-assisted spots, cut and finished like any other film.

    • Gen-AI video
    • Product visuals
    • Hybrid ads
    04

    Social & performance ads

    Vertical-first cuts for Meta, Instagram and YouTube, with a hook in the first second and versions ready for testing.

    • Reels
    • UGC
    • Meta ads
    05

    Direction

    Commercials, music videos and short films, from treatment to final cut. I direct with the edit in mind.

    • Ads
    • Music videos
    • Short films
    06

    Production supervision

    Keeping shoots on schedule and on brief, and making sure post gets everything it needs.

    • Planning
    • On set
    • Post handover
    Portrait of Amal Manoj holding a camera
    Kochi, Kerala

    07About

    Editor first, director too

    I’m Amal Manoj, a film editor and director based in Kochi. Most of my time is spent in the edit, on feature films, commercials, trailers and music videos.

    I edited Qalb (2024), Sajid Yahiya’s feature for Friday Film House, now on Prime Video. I’ve also cut a long run of Sajid’s commercial work at CP Film Productions: Seematti’s pan-Indian ad The Great Indian Saree, the Dream Girls ad series, and campaigns for Swa Diamonds, Cedar Home Store and Potafo, as well as the on-air launch of News Malayalam 24x7.

    I direct as well, and I use AI video tools alongside live action when a project calls for it. On my YouTube channel, Black Light, I break down films for 23.9K subscribers. Whatever the brief, the job is the same: find the story and cut everything that doesn’t serve it.

    Views on work I’ve cut
    15M+
    Commercials
    41
    Social cuts
    20
    YouTube subscribers
    23.9K

    08Contact

    Have a project?
    Let’s talk.

    Editing, direction or a full production. Send a brief, a script or just an idea.