about
Shille began with a simple question,
What if storytellers spent less time chasing numbers and creating for algorithms, and more time finding the right people to bring their stories to life?
Shille provides a home where storytellers across crafts break out of their isolations, bump into each other, exchange ideas, find collaborators, create and celebrate their instinct, passion and craft. Come with a half-written script, a crazy concept, a passion project, or just a spark – you’ll find people who get it.
This isn’t a platform built for going viral. It is for telling stories that last longer than a trend and mean more than a metric.
Puneeth Amarnath
the founder
Puneeth Amarnath is an actor, filmmaker, engineer. He juggles content, cinema and corporate since two decades.
He began his creative journey of acting, writing and direction with children’s theatre troupe Hanumanthanagara Bimba. He collaborated with fellow troupe members to create short films, which sparked his growing interest in cinema. His short films, blogs, and quirks on social media received praise and mention inside Kannada art circuits and film festivals.
Alongside computer science engineering, he ventured into content creation, carving a niche in Kannada digital entertainment. He was widely recognised for pioneering the concept of minimalist posters for Kannada films, making him the poster boy in the digital space.
In 2017, he founded Poster Boy Art Studios, a content company that houses – Ideeria, Shille, and One One Za One. He is known for niche digital campaigns, shorts and series. He is also one of the very few creators from the Kannada digital space to have presented his works as case studies in media and business schools. He began his journey in films as a child actor in 2005 with National Award-winning films like Mitaayi Mane and Tutturi. In 2023, he returned to films, appearing in Shivaji Surathkal 2, O2 and various other films.
He also has more than a decade of corporate experience at Bosch Global Software Technologies, where he leads programs in change management, brand and communications, organisation transformation and culture.