Amar Kaleka

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Amar Singh Kaleka
Kaleka in 2014
Personal details
Born	(1978-07-12) 12 July 1978 (age 46) Patiala, Punjab, India
Nationality	American
Children	2
Occupation	Filmmaker
Website	www.neverendinglight.com

Amardeep Singh Kaleka (born 12 July 1978) is an Indian-American film director who won a regional Emmy Award for his direction of the short film Jacob's Turn in 2010 and another one for Esperanza (2014). Following his father's death in the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting in 2012, Kaleka became involved in politics, supporting gun control, progressive economic reform, and the peace agenda. During the summer of 2014, he ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary for the United States House of Representatives in Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, losing to Rob Zerban.^[1]