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The National Film Development Corporation’s Screenwriters Lab at the WAVES Film Bazaar has established itself as a crucial launching pad for independent Indian filmmakers, providing rare…
Producers Xavier Yamamoto and Simon Barrionuevo have come aboard the animated feature “Neelu,” marking a significant milestone for director Saraswathi’s four-year passion project through…
India’s Platoon One Films has boarded Pramati Anand’s debut feature “A Late Autumn Dream” as lead production company. The project was among six titles selected for the Women in Film India…
India’s Reliance Animation has secured character IP rights to develop an animated series based on the life of soccer legend Diego Maradona. The Mumbai-based studio, a division of Reliance…
Kiran Rao‘s production banner Kindling Pictures is backing commercial director Bosco Bhandarkar’s feature directorial debut “Shadow Hill: Of Spirits and Men,” which has been selected for…
Two new awards, UNESCO Creative Cities Network City of Film Award for the Best Co-Production Market Project and the Matchbox Gap Award for the Best Film Bazaar Recommends Project, have…
Immigrant drama “Feather Men” (Khoriya), the debut feature from Delhi-based filmmaker Vishwendra Singh, has been selected for the Work-in-Progress (WIP) section at WAVES Film Bazaar, the…
Set within the charged social landscape of Ahmedabad, writer-director Aarti Neharsh’s debut feature “Kanda” or “No Onions” uses psychological horror to probe questions of purity, caste and…
BAFTA Breakthrough Fellow Sindhu Sreenivasa Murthy is set to direct “Teacher’s Pet,” a coming-of-age comedy set in an all-girls Catholic boarding school in India. The project is being…
The New Zealand Film Commission is mounting a push into the Indian market, unveiling enhanced incentive packages while seeking to revitalize a largely dormant co-production treaty that has…
Platoon One Films has come aboard as distributor and sales agent for “Deshlai” (Zewel), a film from iconoclastic Indian filmmaker Q, with plans to release the project across multiple…
Indian filmmaker Raam Reddy is moving ahead with his third feature, “Lavender Fire”, a pared-down coming-of-age drama set in Mumbai’s modelling and influencer scene. The project follows…
Indian entertainment platform PTC Punjabi has partnered with Australian production company Temple to co-present three Punjabi-language feature films under the Australia-India Audiovisual…
Matchbox Shots, the Mumbai-based banner behind “Andhadhun,” “Monica O My Darling” (Netflix) and “Scoop” (Netflix), is backing “Shamed,” an official adaptation of Sarbjit Kaur Athwal’s…
Emerging Ladakhi filmmaker Stenzin Tankyong, whose shorts “Sekool” and “Last Days of Summer” (Rotterdam 2023) have screened widely on the festival circuit, has written and is set to direct…
Australia’s National Indian Film Festival (NIFFA) is expanding into regional territories and has signed partnerships with India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) and the…
India’s vibrant Telugu-language film industry, known to the western world for Oscar winner “RRR,” was a dominant presence at the inauguration of the 56th International Film Festival of…
The 56th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) kicked off the 19th edition of its industry market — now rebranded as WAVES Film Bazaar — with a promise to support emerging filmmakers…
Revered filmmaker and International Film Festival of India (IFFI) festival director Shekhar Kapur is steering the Goa-based event toward a future emphasizing technological innovation,…
Filmmaker and producer Sonya V. Kapoor is partnering with Amrita Mendonza to establish the M5 Entertainment Global Film Fund, which is debuting with its first award presentation during the…
