GUNPOWDER HOUSE

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WHAT WE DO

At Gunpowder House Productions, we help publishers, marketing teams, literary agencies and authors use video more strategically. Combining cinematic production with audience-led marketing, we create content that captures attention, builds engagement and helps books reach the modern reader across digital platforms.

OUR TEAM

Srishti Chhabria is a director and producer originally from India, now based in London. Holding an M.A. in Film and Television, she brings a rare combination of narrative instinct and structural thinking to everything she makes; a sensibility sharpened further by her background as a UX Designer, where understanding how people experience a story is as important as telling it.

Her own directorial work includes the BAFTA-qualifying short One More Minute, for which she cast a Deaf actress in the lead role and attained a Level 1 Certification in British Sign Language to honour that collaboration with the rigour it deserved. Professionally, Srishti is a founding member of Gunpowder House, where she is leading cinematic marketing content for some of the Major Five publishers in the United Kingdom. She has directed and produced campaigns for Lisa Jewell, James Patterson, Andrea Mara and LJ Ross, with work broadcast across national and international television. She is currently in development of a character-driven war drama television series, in the vein of Zone Of Interest and Band of Brothers, alongside a social impact film addressing domestic abuse.

Srishti Chhabria

Founder & Head of Strategy | Publishing

Harry Norton

Harry Norton is a jack-of-all trades writer-director, producer and graphic design artist. He has worked across the span of short film; high-end television and features in various capacities.

His own directorial work includes a war short Under Heavy Lead; a film that takes place entirely within the confines of a military vehicle, with his latest short Siren Song currently in post-production. Professionally, Harry has experience working in the locations department of high-end TV and film productions, bringing a cross-disciplinary background that includes prior experience in software marketing. Harry is a founding member of Gunpowder House, he is helping spearhead cinematic marketing content for major publishing clients, with work broadcast on national television and produced for authors including Lisa Jewell and James Patterson. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Drama and an M.A. in Directing. He is currently in development on his most ambitious short to date, a grounded sci-fi drawing on the visual language of Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell.

Founder & Head of Operations

Max Mir

Max Mir is a producer and assistant director with a B.A. in Practical Filmmaking and an M.A. in Film Directing, supplemented by further filmmaking training from the National Film and Television School and ESCAC in Barcelona. He has run two editions of the U22 Film Festival in Barcelona, a platform for emerging local talent built around creative collaboration, and has worked as a freelance assistant director and producer across Spain and the UK.

A founding member of Gunpowder House, Max has worked on producing content for Campari, Gala ADETCA, Trinity House, and Phaidon International.He brings a philosophy of getting as much out as you put into everything he produces. That outlook shaped the Gunpowder House Spark Challenge, which he conceived and produced, in which multiple directors each shot one scene of the same film in reverse. Max is currently developing a short film in Catalan, a silent film set to Ravel’s Bolero and a television project with Netflix Spain.

Founder & Head of Strategy | Charity Films

Kirthika holds a B.B.A. in Business Administration and an M.Sc. in Marketing. Her specialism lies in how brands build communities of shared identity rather than simply a customer base. Before Gunpowder House, she worked across foreign exchange trading and the insurance industry. These roles sharpened her ability to identify what a client genuinely needs, often before they have articulated it themselves.

At Gunpowder House, Kirthika translates finished video campaigns into content across digital marketing channels, working alongside the creative team to find the strongest angle for each project before developing the copy for the website and social media channels. She has led Gunpowder House's brand marketing for campaigns produced for Lisa Jewell, Andrea Mara, and James Patterson. She has also published two research articles on consumer behaviour and operations management, formally recognised academic work that sits alongside her professional practice. Outside of work, she is an avid reader, and spends her time travelling, hiking, and practicing yoga, while laying the groundwork of building her own business.