1. Sandeep Reddy Vanga 

Vanga worked as an apprentice for the film Manasu Maata Vinadhu in 2005 for 25 days at Rushikonda Beach, Vizag. 

2. Lokesh Kanagaraj 

Lokesh kanagaraj is an ex-bank employee. Before becoming filmmaker, he worked in a bank. 

3. Vivek Athreya 

Vivek Athreya is an Electronics Engineering graduate from Sastra University and worked at IBM, Chennai for five years before resigning to pursue a career as film director. 

4. Karthik Subbaraj 

Karthik Subbaraj started his career working as a software engineer in Bangalore working for Infosys. 

5. Venkatesh Maha 

Venkatesh Maha left his house at the age of sixteen and worked at various job. He worked as a spot boy for the movie Teen Maar 

6. Nag Ashwin

Nag Ashwin began his film industry career as an assistant director for the film Nenu Meeku Telusa…?. He has then worked as an assistant director with Sekhar Kammula for the films Leader and Life Is Beautiful. 

7. Sailesh Kolanu

He is an associate professor in medicine at the University of New South Wales before making his debut with HIT: The First Case 

 8. Gowtham Tinnanuri

He worked as in Engineer in Accenture & then later in Deloitte.