- In the phone scene in Trade Offs (2003), he wears a blue shirt with a white logo of a 'film dragon' which was the logo for an Asian Film Festival of which he was a film-programmer in 2001.
- His first experience of catching the filmmaking/acting bug was at the 2001 Palm Springs Film Festival where he attended as a film programmer from another film festival in hopes of recruiting films. He was given a stipend to stay for three days at a hotel. After the first day, he was hanging out with A-list cinematographers during a panel and was in complete awe. Immediately afterwards, he called his director and told her that he would use the stipend for food and gas then slept in his car for eight days. He ended up watching 34 feature films in that week and as many as seven in one day.
- Shares a birthday with Martin Scorsese and Lee Strasberg.
- Graduate of Musician's Institute - Guitar Institute of Technology.
- Frequently works on music videos. Has worked on: The Number Twelve Looks Like You video for their song "Like A Cat" for director Darren Doane; Difficult Henry's "Rapture" for director Patrick Guera; Fuji Minx's "Cat Wine" for directing team Lady Ransom; The Sleeping's "Don't Hold Back" for director Adam Thomson (also the director of the film 'A Girl and a Gun' with Anup as a lead). Appeared as an extra in The Fabulous Thunderbird's How Do You Spell Love? M.O.N.E.Y. - his first time ever on a set.
- Interviewed Don Davis (composer, The Matrix (1999)), Academy Award Winning screenwriter Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs (1991)), Mani Ratnam (Bombay (1995), Dil Se.. (1998)) for his Filmmaker Interviews site.
- Rehearsed with Russell Crowe and Peter Weir for the finale of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World which never got shot. The experience was mentioned in Sugunan's documentary "Slaves and Ensigns: The Far Side of the Border".
- On A.R. Rahman's Jai Ho World Tour as director, cinematographer and editor for music video promos and behind the scenes documentarian. (June 2010)
- College: Graduated with a B.S. in physiology & neuroscience from University of California, San Diego. He was a teaching assistant for metabolic-based nutrition class and physiology & neuroscience lab. The only class he failed was a visual arts class - he always questioned the art teachers and refused to do the work their way. He took physics from Prof Judge who was rumored to be Mike Judges' father.
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