Good Pitch India 2018 Catalogue

1 Goals of Good Pitch Good Pitch 3 Good Pitch India India GOALS OF GOOD PITCH

ROCKET FUELS Magic CONNECTS Fuels the very best independent Connects changemakers with powerful films documentary filmmaking in the world. they can deploy in their work. puzzle-piece FORGES Cogs BUILDS Forges new partnerships between filmmakers Builds a global ‘good’ network of filmmakers and changemakers from across civil society. and changemakers. power-off UNLOCKS CHILD ENRICHES Unlocks new investment and new audiences Enriches the lives of individuals, transforms for documentary films. communities and improves societies. 4 Hello & Good Pitch Good Pitch 5 Welcome India India WELCOME TO GOOD PITCH, HELLO & A.K.A. THE RADICAL COLLABORATION CLUB!

Welcome to Good Pitch India, a forum We couldn’t have put together an We would also like to thank our friends that uses powerful documentaries to event of this global standard without and allies - Samhita, Pocket Films, create meaningful social change. In its the generosity and shared passion of Whistling Woods and Luminosity who second edition, it features four remark- our supporter, Tata Trusts. The support whole heartedly supported our able stories from the states of Madhya received from Tata Trusts for this outreach efforts. We wish we could WELCOME Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra one year program has motivated us invite everyone who expressed and West Bengal. For the uninitiated, to deliver to the highest standards interest in Good Pitch India. we promise this is going to be a bit of of commitment and excellence. a ride! Good Pitch is a radical collab- Our gratitude to our well-wishers, who oration club. It is an invitation to roll To our global partners, Doc Society have extended themselves in terms of up your sleeves and join a room of and Sundance Institute - their gener- connections, being our ambassadors, issue experts, of inspiring community osity, mentorship, time, and guidance advice, and helping in all sorts of ways. Good Pitch brings together documentary filmmakers and business leaders, of organisers, has been an invaluable teaching to us media and technology networks, and in the past 5 years. We could not have We are proud to serve you and with foundations, NGOs, campaigners, philanthropists, everyone who wants to know how they been more blessed with our gurus. the documentary community and to could work with documentary film. work together to create a more policy makers, brands and media around leading We warmly acknowledge the time sustainable and ambitious future for This forum aims to offer their best ideas and commitment Kiran Rao brings as documentary film. social and environmental issues - to forge coalitions for partnership with the film teams, to a moderator to Good Pitch India – her help make strategic connections, to energy and focus is a source of Finally, our sincere thanks to everyone and campaigns that are good for all these partners, propose funding, and to offer pro bono constant amazement to us. who travelled distances and took the services. Together, working with and time to share in the Good Pitch India good for the films and good for society. lifting up these exceptional stories, Our collaborators, Akshara Foundation journey. May it be the first among many! we can connect to the audiences who of Art and Learning (AFAL), Vivanta by matter and change hearts and minds. Taj President, Grey Group, Consulate We wish you safe travels and see General of Canada in Mumbai, Accord you again at Good Pitch India. Good Pitch India also features two Equips, Desmondji, Great Ale Works, filmmakers who will present their Ignite Mudra, MIT Media Cloud, Radio inspiring stories of creating change One, Light Craft, Camera Corp, With love from the as case studies. The intention is to CoolLab, Bright Outdoor Media Pvt communicate to all present here the Ltd, Face Entertainment and the Good Pitch team. idea that change is possible with a Arambhan Group – your support has creatively told film. been the wind beneath our wings. 6 Partners, Hosts, Good Pitch Good Pitch 7 Collaborators & India India Friends

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GLOBAL IN PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME BY WITH EVERYONE 8 Tata Trusts Good Pitch 9 India THE IDEA OF FILMS AS DRIVERS OF SOCIAL CHANGE TATA TRUSTS RESONATES WITH THE TRUSTS’ BELIEF THAT A CURATED ART FORM CAN NOT ONLY RENDER A LASTING INFLUENCE BUT ALSO INSTIGATE CHANGE.

From fuelling aspirations to enabling healthcare and nutrition, water, energy, not only render a lasting influence initiatives, Tata Trusts has come a data driven governance, sports, but also instigate change. long way since its inception by the enhancing civil society and governance, venerable industrialist, Jamsetji Tata, media, arts, crafts and culture. From setting up institutions to in 1892. Cultivating the vision of facilitating elementary healthcare, their founder, the Trusts were built The Trusts’ large impact created a the Trusts have always graciously as an accretion of proactive societal pool of partnerships with like-minded delivered on their responsibility of initiatives across sectors. With a people extending from government public welfare and growth. strong underlying desire to contribute bodies to international agencies. Grassroots-level initiatives have to the communities, Tata Trusts has Encouraging the coalition of several always taken the top shelf amongst deployed a range of programmes and alliances between organisations, the Trusts’ primary concerns and endowments throughout the country. the Trusts aim to improve the quality have instilled a definitive difference of life is not limited to a particular in the life of its beneficiaries. While Laying the foundation of many section of society or group. The Jamsetji Tata’s vision remains integral, philanthropic ventures, the Trusts have support is interlinked as well as direct. a gradual metamorphosis has always played a significant role in not only For the charitable organisation’s way been underway to ensure relevance challenging but also transforming the of life relies extensively on uplifting the with the evolving needs of the people. traditional ways of beneficence. growth-drivers and enablers, thus From leveraging financial support to nurturing a self-sustaining ecosystem Tata Trusts executing direct implementation of for all. tatatrusts.org societal strategies, the Trusts embody the guiding principles of their founder Over the years, Tata Trusts has in every venture. Touching the lives entered into several new partnerships of millions of people, Tata Trusts’ to make a real difference to commu- assortment of programmes is delivered nities. The association with global in more than 17 states in India through documentary pitching forum Good an efficient network of 450 plus partner Pitch India and Indian Documentary organisations apart from their own Foundation (IDF) is one such new network of direct implementation approach to philanthropy. organisations. Spread across various sectors, the Trusts support and The idea of films as drivers of social foster innovation in areas of natural change resonates with the Trusts’ resources management, education, belief that a curated art form can 10 Good Pitch 11 India CONTENTS

Welcome to Good Pitch 05 Writing with Fire 32 Participating Sushmit Ghosh Organisations 50 Tata Trusts 08 Rintu Thomas Case Study: Timetable 12 Her Song 36 Driving with Selvi 140 Atin Mehra Elisa Paloschi Forum Rules & Mae Thornton Mehra Forum Decorum 14 Case Study: Climbing Uphill 40 Thank you for the Rain 148 Doc Society Team 16 Vaibhav Ingole Julia Dahr Bhushan Ingole Kisilu Musya Doc Society 18 #MissingGirls 44 Sundance 20 Miriam Chandy Menacherry Aliya Furniturewala Good Pitch Team India 22

Indian Documentary Foundation 28 12 Time Table Good Pitch Good Pitch 13 India India 09.00 – REGISTRATION 10.30 – WELCOME & INTRODUCTION TIME- 11.15 – IMPACT CASE STUDY - DRIVING WITH SELVI 11.30 – WRITING WITH FIRE TABLE 12.15 – HER SONG 13.00 – LUNCH 14.30 – IMPACT CASE STUDY - THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN 14.45 – CLIMBING UPHILL

Twitter 15.30 – #MISSINGGIRLS Follow Good Pitch India @GoodPitchIndia Tweet about the event with #filmsforchange – Facebook 16.15 CLOSING REMARKS Find IDF on Facebook facebook.com/IndianDocumentaryFoundation – Find Good Pitch India on Facebook 16.30 POST-PITCH TEA facebook.com/goodpitchindia

See the Projects goodpitch.org 14 Rules & Good Pitch 15 Decorum India RULES & DECORUM

• Each filmmaking eamt has seven • Good Pitch is about making minutes to pitch their project including connections - please do follow any time they wish to use showing a up directly on the day with the trailer, clips or photographs. filmmakers taking part, or enlist help from the Good Pitch team • After each pitch, there will be a feedback to get connected. session of up to 30 minutes, led by the moderator. Feedback is welcome from • There are microphones at the front participants around the roundtable and of the auditorium. If you’d like to offer from the floor. support during one of the feedback sessions, come stand next to a mic so • We are looking for positive feedback the moderator can bring you into the about the impact potential and conversation. engagement opportunities around the film and how it intersects with the work • For those of a shyer persuasion, of the participants. you should have received a postcard (I’m A Big Fan Of Your Work), which • Brief questions, advice, expertise and also lets you share your ideas with especially offers of partnership to amplify the filmmakers. Please hand over the film and outreach campaign are all completed cards to any member of warmly welcomed. the Good Pitch team. 16 Doc Good Pitch Good Pitch 17 Society India India Team DOC SOCIETY TEAM

BEADIE FINZI JESS SEARCH NICOLE VAN SCHAIK JAMES FRANKLIN Foundation Director Chief Executive Deputy Director Creative Director

Having worked in documentary for Jess is the Chief Executive of Doc Nicole strategises with filmmakers James looks after design at Doc the past 20 years, Beadie is in heaven Society. Before that, she was a and impact producers on how they Society as well as the websites in her role at Doc Society – befriending Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 can use their films as a strategic tool for all the Doc Society brands and independent filmmakers globally, and a founder of Shooting People, for social or environmental change. programmes, starting with the first funding great films, brokering new the online filmmakers’ network. She also brokers new and exciting website back in 2006. With 20 years partnerships and sharing knowledge. She is also a board member of the partnerships with organisations experience in design and the web, UK think tank IPPR and has an MBA from across civil society, including: James previously ran a design agency Beadie Finzi Nicole Van Schaik In addition to executive producing a from Cass Business School. Jess foundations, philanthropists, NGOs, in London for 7 years. Currently, he number of films, Beadie is responsible likes to moderate for IDFA, the Skoll brands, policymakers, activists, is also the founder of the web-based for the global Good Pitch programme World Forum, the Trust Women technology innovators, and media for film-marketing system Assemble. and helping develop tools for the conference and Doc Society’s the global Good Pitch programme, me and has produced the design field such as the Impact Field Guide Good Pitch. and Doc Society as a whole. She is behind many of Doc Society’s films. and the Doc Impact Award. proud to be part of the 2017 Rockwood JustFilms Fellowship. Before joining Beadie is also an experienced filmmaker. the foundation, Nicole worked as a Titles include Only When I Dance, television journalist for broadcasters, released theatrically in the UK and US. including RTL News and Al Jazeera. She produced Unknown White Male in She finished her MA in International 2005, which played at Sundance Film Journalism in Cardiff in 2008, and has Jess Search Festival and was Oscar shortlisted. James Franklin previously lived in The Netherlands, USA, South Africa, and Wales. 18 Doc Society Good Pitch 19 India “FOR MANY YEARS DOC SOCIETY HAS SPOTTED DOC SOCIETY AND SUPPORTED THE MOST URGENT PROJECTS - Collaborator NURTURING THEM WITH LOVE, ENSURING THEY MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IT IS THE FORUM FOR OUR MOST IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS IN

Doc Society is a non-profi t founded NONFICTION CINEMA.” in 2005 committed to enabling great - Joshua Oppenheimer, Director, Act of Killing documentary fi lms and connecting them to audiences globally.

Based in London and New York, we work with fi lmmakers and partners all over the world. “GOOD PITCH IS A PHENOMENAL OPPORTUNITY

Our Mission We bring people together to unleash TO IDENTIFY SOCIAL ISSUES THAT NEED TO the transformational power of docu- mentary fi lm. We stand in solidarity BE AMPLIFIED THROUGH THE POWER OF FILM with fi lmmakers and work to unite them with new friends and allies, building new models globally. We aim to innovate, AND COLLABORATION.” share and innovate again. - Mitch Markson Ogilvy Our Driving Principle Great documentaries enrich the lives of individuals. They have a unique ability to engage and connect people, trans- form communities and improve societies. “GOOD PITCH IS THE BEST PLACE TO That’s why we are dedicated to the Impact of Art, and the Art of Impact. GAIN MOMENTUM AND SUPPORT FOR Doc Society docsociety.org AN INTERNATIONAL IMPACT CAMPAIGN.” - Mark Edwards, ARTE France 20 Sundance Good Pitch 21 Institute India WE COULDN’T HAVE MADE GOOD PITCH WHAT IT SUNDANCE IS TODAY WITHOUT OUR COLLEAGUES AT SUNDANCE INSTITUTE INSTITUTE DFP. ENCOURAGING AND ENABLING US Global Programme OVER THE PAST THIRTEEN YEARS. Partner

The Sundance Documentary Film Program (DFP) supports nonfi ction TABITHA JACKSON fi lmmakers worldwide in the produc- Director, Documentary Film Program tion of cinematic documentaries on And Fund, Sundance Institute contemporary themes. Established With almost 25 years experience in in 2002 with founding support from the fi eld, Jackson is an award-winning Open Society Foundations, the commissioning editor, director, and Program is a vibrant global resource producer of nonfi ction work. Prior to art. reach. change. for independent nonfi ction story- joining Sundance, she most recently telling. Recent projects include served as Head of Arts and Performance Hooligan Sparrow, Whose Streets?, at Channel 4 Television in London, where Tabitha Jackson Casting JonBenet, Cameraperson, she supported and championed the and I Am Not Your Negro. independent and alternative voice and sought to fi nd fresh and innovative ways Led by Tabitha Jackson, the Document- of storytelling. She also executively ary Film Program believes that art produced a number of projects for Film changes the way we reach people. 4 including Mark Cousins’ cinematic We focus on those values of Art, Reach odyssey The Story of Film, Clio Barnard’s and Change through encouraging hybrid The Arbor, Sophie Fiennes’ essay excellence and experimentation in form; The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, Bart championing under-represented voices; Layton’s thriller The Imposter, and Iain facilitating the strategic distribution Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s recent of grantee projects where needed, Sundance-winning Nick Cave biography and supporting the social and creative 20,000 Days on Earth. Betsy Tsai impact of this work upon release. Sundance Institute salutes our In summary, the year-round support of Good Pitch friends around the world, fi lmmakers through the granting fund, in celebration of your 10 years of the creative labs, a fellows program and partnerships in the fi eld. Congratulations! strategic advice from development to Tabitha Jackson Director distribution amounts to a commitment Bruni Burres Senior Consultant sundance.org to documentary as an increasingly Kristin Feeley Labs and Artist Sundance Documentary important global art form and a critical Support Director Film Program GOOD PITCH is a project of the Doc Society in partnership with Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program cultural practice in the 21st century. Betsy Tsai Film Fund Assistant sundance.org/documentary 22 Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch 23 India Team India India GOOD PITCH Ruchi Bhimani Manohar Kabeer Impact Director Outreach Director

Having worked as a producer on Manohar Kabeer is the outreach INDIA TEAM several fi lms, she became focused director at Good Pitch. He makes sure on documentaries in the last few the right people and organisations do years, and worked as a Co-Producer not go unnoticed. He is an engineering on An Insignifi cant Man, and the walk-out and a self-taught media Ruchi Bhimani recently completed, Finnish professional. Having worked on TV produced, Boys Who Like Girls. shows and documentaries for over As Outreach Director for Good Pitch 5 years, Manohar identifi es his mission SOPHY VSIVARAMAN JAAVED JAFFERI India, she loves her job of fi nding the to create knowledge resources and CEO Co - Founder right allies for documentary fi lms to edu-tainment across mediums have greater and more far-reaching and platforms. Sophy is the co-founder and chief Jaaved Jaff eri is an Indian actor, impact in aff ected communities. executive of the Indian Documentary voice actor, dancer, comedian and Foundation. This not-for-profi t impressionist known for his work in organisation was founded in 2009 several Bollywood fi lms and Indian with an aim to promoting, developing television shows. Apart from his Manohar Kabeer and funding of documentaries in India association with India’s substantial and about India. Sophy strategises and signifi cant fi lm industry, he Sophy VSivaraman Dipika Dayal Faebitha Rahiman impact campaigns for documentary gained approval for his performance Project Production Manager Project Producer fi lmmakers and helps raise funding for in a Maggi tomato ketchup outreach activities. She collaborates advertisement aired in the 1990s. She has honed her organisational and After her Masters Degree from Tata on CSR-led training workshops for He is a noted impressionist, famous aesthetic skills with advertising’s best Institute of Social Sciences, Faebitha social entrepreneurs. She also curates for his role in Bombay Boys, starring Directors, Photographers and Film has donned many roles such as programs for fi lm festivals and has been in its hit song ‘I am Mumbhai’. He is makers. She has a small travel company executive producer, director, content instrumental in linking the documentary well known for his portrayals of which designs tours for visitors to curator being a few among them. She genre with the fi ction industry and Mumbai hoodlums referred to as India. As Head of Production / currently works with the Good Pitch concentrates on building alliances. taporis within Mumbai and the state Dipika Dayal Production Controller at Good Pitch India team as a Project Producer. An She has successfully led the Good of Maharashtra. He hosted and 2018, she is looking after all logistics aspiring screenwriter by night, Faebitha Pitch India program since 2014, and produced the highly popular dance vis-a-vis hotels, airline bookings, travel enjoys all things related to speculative is the pioneer of the #fi lmsforchange show called Boogie Woogie on Sony and other sundry requirements. fi ction and manufacturing consent. In Jaaved Jaff eri movement. Entertainment Television, and her spare time, she tries to test the limits dubbed commentary to the famous of awkwardness in social scenarios. Japanese television show Takeshi’s Castle on Pogo TV. He is also a proponent of documentary fi lm- making, being the co - founder of the Indian Documentary Foundation. Faebitha Rahiman 24 Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch 25 India Team India India

Urmi Chanda Shruti Sengupta Anjali Vyas Abhimanyu Singh Partnerships Manager Systems Manager Research Associate Research Associate

A passionate Indologist, who writes, Shruti wishes she was a fi lmmaker Anjali was the Foundation Director Abhimanyu is working as a Research edits and researches in the realm by profession, but in reality she is a for the Indian Documentary Foundation, Associate with the Indian Documentary of Indian history and culture. She fi lmmaker by occasion. Her docu- which is a not-for-profi t company for Foundation and is associated with Good is also the Partnerships Manager at mentary Six Sacred Days is a happy the promotion of documentary fi lms. Pitch India 2018. He is also an award- Good Pitch India, where she oversees tale of sex workers of Sonagachi Anjali was the Outreach Director for winning documentary fi lmmaker Like( Urmi Chanda all PR and Media-related activities. fi ghting for their right to hold their Anjali Vyas TriggerPitch in 2011 and 2012. She Dust We Rise, Best Indian Short Eco- own Durga festival and winning. She has moderated panel discussions on documentary at TEFF 2017) and his writes, assists, and directs whenever documentary fi lms. She has been part work has also been screened at the providence has her in sight. On other of fi lmmaking workshops handling the U.S. Consulate General in Mumbai. occasions, she retreats to the shell production. She has organized screen- Abhimanyu holds a Masters in Media she came from, and binges on British ings of documentary fi lms in Mumbai, and Cultural Studies from the Tata TV shows. At Good Pitch India, she collaborating with other organizations. Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. works as Systems Manager, to make She assisted Kiran Rao in moderating Apart from enjoying power naps, sure we got the facts right Good Pitch India, in the year 2014. he is a self proclaimed cuisinier and (grammatically too!). aspires to explore geographies. Shruti Sengupta Abhimanyu Singh Nikita Nair Suyog Gavas Vishanth Kumar Apexa Shah Project Executive Finance Manager Research Associate Compliance Offi cer

Young, enthusiastic and an adventure Suyog has been with IDF since its A chef and a sustainable farmer, Apexa Shah is a qualifi ed Company lover. After doing her Post Graduate inception. He provides fi nancial Vishanth has done his MSc in Secretary and LLB. After working Diploma in Event Management, she information to the management Sustainable Development and has with Deloitte for 2.5 years, she now decided that events and everything by searching and analyzing a keen interest in issues regarding practices as a Company Secretary surrounding it is her passion. She has accounting data. In addition, he the food system. He was involved under the fi rm named Apexa Shah taught children speech and drama, prepares reports by compiling and in various grass roots movements and Associates. Her area of practice Nikita Nair worked towards understanding people analyzing account information. Vishanth Kumar like ‘Slow Food’ and other farmers’ is advisory and compliance under and their personalities through True movements. Over the last four years Corporate Laws. At Good Pitch Colors Asia and is a detail oriented he has started ‘Kikui Farms’ - an India, she is a Compliance Offi cer. event manager. She believes cooking organic and sustainable vegetable is the best stress buster. At Good and dairy farm. He has worked for Pitch India, she is a Project Executive Good Pitch India in 2014, and returns working to bring Good Pitch to as a Research Associate and Floor everyone. Director for the 2018 edition.

Suyog Gavas Apexa Shah 26 Good Pitch Good Pitch Good Pitch 27 India Team India India KIRAN RAO “EACH OF THESE STORIES HOLD AT THEIR HEART Devashish Guruji Nikita Malhotra THE HOPE THAT WE CAN CHANGE OUR REALITIES, AND Graphic Designer Social Media Supervisor Moderator, Good Pitch India EACH OF THE CHARACTERS IN THESE FILMS SHOWS Devashish Guruji is the founder Nikita is a passionate digital and lead designer at G.A.S marketer. In her free time she (The Graphic & Art Studio) in tries to fi gure out ways in US THAT WE CAN.” Mumbai. Through his projects he which digital can transform the has worked with independent masses’ perceptions and reaction Devashish Guruji people and global businesses to to issues plaguing society in order develop and express their identity to aid good people tackle and strategy through design. bad problems. “Stories are our shared experience, Kiran Rao is a Mumbai-based fi lm bringing us together across space and director and producer at Aamir Khan time, and allowing us to believe that Productions. She has worked on fi lms things can and should be diff erent in like Lagaan (2001), Monsoon Wedding our increasingly complex world. The four (2001), Swades (2004) and produced documentaries chosen this year at Good such fi lms as Taare Zameen Par (2007), Pitch India open up new debates, create Peepli Live (2010), Delhi Belly (2011), space for introspection, and inspire and the television show Satyamev Jayate move us to change with their unique (2012-2014), Dangal (2016) and Secret Nikita Malhotra stories of courage and human resilience. Superstar (2017). Her debut as a director These stories take us into the lives of was the feature fi lm Dhobi Ghat women and men who are faced with (Mumbai Diaries), which premiered odds that seem insurmountable, for at the Toronto International Film whom it would appear that hope is not Festival in 2010 and had a worldwide an option. And yet, each of these stories theatrical release in 2011. She is also hold at their heart the hope that we can the Chairperson of the board of change our realities, and each of the trustees at the Mumbai Academy of characters in these fi lms shows us that Moving Image (MAMI) which organises we can. At Good Pitch India, we want to the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival celebrate these people and encourage annually, and Co-Founder of Paani the fi lmmakers who have brought us Foundation, which is working towards Kiran Rao these stories. Because we believe that making Maharashtra drought-free. Photo Credit when we hear these stories we are “IF YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN FILM’S IMPACT ON Shreya Dev Dube emboldened - each one of us - to aspire for life without needless pain and violence, and that when we share them, SOCIAL JUSTICE, THE ENVIRONMENT, OR ANY OTHER we lighten the burden that we all carry.” PRESSING ISSUE OF OUR TIME, THEN YOU CANNOT MISS GOOD PITCH. ” - Reid Williams, Threshold Foundation 28 IDF Good Pitch 29 India OVER THE YEARS, THE INDIAN DOCUMENTARY INDIAN FOUNDATION HAS ENGAGED WITH REMARKABLE FILMS, DOCUMENTARY HELD SEVERAL STRATEGY AND IMPACT WORKSHOPS, AND COLLABORATED WITH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION TO PITCH THEIR IDEAS FOR INVESTMENT.

Indian Documentary Foundation with social entrepreneurs to pitch Indian Documentary was co-founded by Sophy VSivaraman their ideas for investment. Foundation and Jaaved Jafferi in 2009. This not- indiandocumentary- for-profit organisation is dedicated Most notably, the Indian Documentary foundation.org to the promotion, development, and Foundation has been host to two funding of documentaries in India consecutive editions of Good Pitch and about India. India in Mumbai in 2014 and 2018. This collaboration has yielded some powerful The foundation firmly believes in the alliances and has started what we call power of creatively told documentary the #filmsforchange movement in the films and their potential to create country. Films like Driving with Selvi positive social change. Over the years, that were part of the Good Pitch India the Indian Documentary Foundation forum have gone on to make history. has engaged with remarkable films like Oscar winner Megan Mylan’s After My Indian Documentary Foundation has Garden Grows; has held several been instrumental in linking the strategy and impact workshops across documentary genre with the Indian the country, including those at the fiction industry and concentrates International Film Festival of Kerala on building alliances and partnerships and the Mumbai International for filmmakers who want to create Film Festival. It has collaborated impact with their films. 30 31

THE FILMS 32 33

WRITING WITH FIRE SUSHMIT GHOSH & RINTU THOMAS 34 Writing with Good Pitch Good Pitch Sushmit Ghosh Rintu Thomas 35 Fire India India Director / Producer Director / Producer [email protected] [email protected]

The Team Sushmit Ghosh Rintu Thomas Sushmit Ghosh has directed and shot several Rintu Thomas is an award-winning director- award-winning shorts, many of which have producer whose films have been used as WRITING WITH FIRE been used globally as education and social advocacy tools for social impact, included in impact tools. Winner of the National Film the curriculum of global universities, and used Award of India, Sushmit’s work is also by governments as policy tools. Her work has supported by the Sundance Institute and The been supported by The Japan Foundation, Bertha Foundation. His interest lies in using Bertha Foundation and the Sundance Institute. he film, Writing with Fire new technologies and creative strategies to A recipient of numerous awards, including the WILL KHABAR LAHARIYA BECOME A MODEL enhance both, the visibility and impact, that National Film Award of India, Rintu enjoys locates itself in the heart of storytelling can create in the digital era. producing films that have transformative social Uttar Pradesh, a state that is a impact and has had these films screened at NEWSPAPER FOR THE WORLD THAT REDEFINES In his spare time, Sushmit enjoys biking and T key global platforms like United Nations trekking in the Himalayas. petri dish where politicians practice Climate Change Conference and broadcast on a tested cocktail of caste hate and THE MEANING OF DIGITAL JOURNALISM, international television networks. communal violence, making this one Rintu loves bookshops, dogs, and seashores. of India’s most politically volatile HAVING THE POTENTIAL TO DIRECTLY IMPACT regions with a corrupt local media system. It is in this socio-political THE LIVES OF MILLIONS? context, that we see Meera’s desire to create and lead India’s first Hindi digital news agency, reporting news At Good Pitch India we are looking for We want our film to that truly matters to India’s many • A network of institutions as grassroots • Build visibility for KL’s work both in India screening partners for the film and internationally marginalised millions. • Global education institutions/ spaces with a • Create opportunities for fundraising to These are dangerous times for minorities, focus on journalism to host screenings, Q&A, strengthen KL infrastructure - partnerships that women and journalists in Uttar Pradesh, and dialogue around the film (film tour) are invested in KL’s mid and long-term growth especially for Meera and her team. Working • Public figures/ brand-ambassadors to • Screenings across India – focus on disrupting in a rapidly changing socio-political amplify the voice of the film social norms and generating conversations environment with a heightened sense of risk about equity, gender, justice and dignity for and fear, Writing With Fire looks at how Meera • Achieve on-ground infrastructural support all life negotiates these new obstacles, inching closer for Khabar Lahariya (KL) by fund-raising, to her dream. With exclusive access to the including resource partners for phone units, • Policy and education tool - leverage the personal and professional worlds of Meera and network partner, Apple systems for post- film as a policy and education toolkit in India, her journalists, we journey with her as she production, and two-wheelers for journalists particularly in academies for public inspires more women to join her team. Will administration and journalism schools • Media and network partnerships Khabar Lahariya become a model newspaper • Create opportunities for Meera to present her for the world that redefines the meaning of • Media partnerships with international work at global forums, ensuring international digital journalism, having the potential to news agencies visibility and creating a protective mechanism directly impact the lives of millions? Through • Funders / philanthropic organisations to for the work they’re doing in India Writing With Fire emerges a picture of a support KL work woman’s power and courage that the world needs to experience urgently. Khabar Lahariya News Portal khabarlahariya.org 36 37

HER SONG ATIN MEHRA & MAE THORNTON MEHRA 38 Her Song Good Pitch Good Pitch Atin Mehra Mae Thornton Mehra 39 India India Director / Producer / DP Co-director / Producer [email protected] [email protected]

The Team Atin Mehra Mae Thornton Mehra Atin Mehra was born in India. After his father Mae Thornton Mehra leads the historical died when he was only ten, Atin was forced research on the Banchara, providing critical HER SONG to work in a factory to support his family. He context for the story. Her academic pursuits survived abuse and discrimination that fi lled rooted in oral history and the history and him with a desire to speak out for those who languages of South Asia have been a are silenced and marginalized. In 2002, after tremendous resource while making this fi lm. pregnant and couldn’t work. She gave birth to a boy, a huge anchara is one of the lowest a friend lent him a camera, he discovered an Mae is also largely responsible for gathering disappointment to her mother who was hoping for a girl innate talent for still photography, which the award winning fi lm team, raising funds, castes in India, and suff ers – then left town to attend nursing school and never came back. eventually led him to becoming a cinemato- and providing a vitally important woman’s This meant she escaped the trade, but at a terrible cost: her from some of the worst, most grapher, producer, and now director. His keen perspective. B parents and brothers disowned her. As Bulbul thinks about her eye, technical skills with camera, sound and systemic discrimination. Her Song own close-knit family, she starts to realize how limited her editing, and intimate familiarity with living and options actually are. tells the story of three Banchara shooting in India, all proved invaluable during

this often stressful and dangerous fi lm shoot. women, who attempt to break free The truth is, the Banchara have survived generations of brutal of this oppression. In doing so, we oppression with their spirits amazingly intact. And as we can see from Laxmi, escape is possible. They just need help unravel a story over a hundred years dismantling the system from within, which requires awareness in the making, dating back to when of the injustice they suff er. the British colonized India and used the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 to control nomadic populations across the subcontinent. For the Banchara, At Good Pitch India we are looking for We want our fi lm to this meant a forced livelihood of • Finishing funds for the fi lm, including • Provide a larger historical context completion of historical, anthropological to caste-based prostitution caste-based prostitution. and linguistic research of Banchara • Serve as a mirror for the Banchara to community Generations later, this devastating legacy continues. see themselves in a new light and become Because of the prejudice they face, no one will hire • Sponsorship of community screenings a genuine step towards healing for the the men for even menial jobs, which means the across India (Banchara, Bedia, Nat, and community women and girls are forced to prostitute themselves, others) • Raise awareness about the intersectionality often starting as young as 10 years old. • Sponsorship of Educational Guide of caste discrimination, poverty and sex

Lesson Plans for use in university traffi cking Our fi lm follows three women – a young girl forced classrooms and alongside non-profi t into prostitution, Lina; her younger sister, Bulbul, • Through on-ground alliances, catalyze and community screenings (names changed) who hopes to escape her fate; and real, pragmatic, community-based solutions Laxmi, one of the few women to accomplish this, as • Legal assistance for the fi lm and the to the issues addressed in the fi lm their lives are transformed by “the trade.” community • Ensure basic human rights for the

community including access to justice, A passionate advocate for women’s health, Laxmi healthcare, education and alternative mentors Bulbul, taking her along as she performs work opportunities rounds as a midwife. She encourages Bulbul to stay in school. Laxmi shares her heart-wrenching story of how she was prostituted by her family at 16, then condemned to live in a shack when she became 40 41

CLIMBING UPHILL VAIBHAV INGOLE & BHUSHAN INGOLE 42 Climbing Uphill Good Pitch Good Pitch Vaibhav Ingole Bhushan Ingole 43 India India Director Editor [email protected] [email protected]

The Team Vaibhav Ingole Bhushan Ingole Vaibhav Ingole is a filmmaker, screenwriter Born in Wardha, Maharashtra, Bhushan and producer based out of Mumbai, India. Ingole is a final year student at the Film CLIMBING UPHILL He’s a recent alumnus of the Crossing and Television Institute of India, where Borders Program, conducted by Document he is currently working on his final year -ary Campus and European Documentary diploma film. Previously, he has been Network where his project was developed in the co-writer and associate director for South Korea and was later pitched at Leipzig a couple of Marathi feature films. He has Marathi-speaking Networking Days in Germany and Docedge directed shorts and edited documentaries, CLIMBING UPHILL ENCAPSULATES AN Kolkata. Previously, he has worked on a and was selected for the student exchange middle class family — the number of ad films, PSAs and Marathi feature program at La Femis, France, where he Patils — live in Mumbai, films in various creative capacities. He has developed his editing skills. A UNNERVING UNIQUE PHASE OF A CLOSE- also worked on a documentary with a French India. Suresh (53) is a lawyer, production company for Voyage Channel. In Archana (45) is a homemaker, KNIT FAMILY IN TRANSITION. the coming days, he will be working with a Spanish production company for an inter- and Rashmi is their 20-year-old national documentary as an Indian co happy-go-lucky daughter. producer. On the side, Vaibhav is currently developing a feature length screenplay, and Although she is hearing and Climbing Uphill is his first feature-length speech impaired, she is a classical documentary. dancer and designs jewelry. At the center of the Patil family is

Jatin (18) - a person with autism. At Good Pitch India we are looking for We want our film to • Monetary support for production and • Create awareness and support structure The family has single-handedly struggled to live post-production. There is an immediate for families with children with Autism and up to the challenges of this unique situation with requirement for equipment and logistics Hearing Disability, emphasising early a sense of acceptance and humour. Through Jatin’s intervention with children who are autisic story and events in his life, we get to know Rashmi, • Distribution avenues with broadcasters and Archana and Suresh. Recently, he left home to festivals. Contacts for community screenings • To bring about an attitude change, pursue higher studies, and is now facing the ‘real’ especially in terms of autism and mental • NGO tie-ups to use the film for world. Mother – Son – Siblings have been separated disabilities dissemination and create awareness about for the first time. Will Jatin be able to cope with differently-abled children • Create awareness on existing policies the real world? and encourage policy changes in the realm • Impact Producer to execute outreach of mental disabilities with a special focus Climbing Uphill encapsulates an unnerving unique program on India phase of a close-knit family in transition. • Educational guide design & basic discussion • Empowering people with disabilities, guide design for parents and teachers especially young girls and women • CSR Funding for creating and disseminating • Specially designed campaigns, profiling packets Archana Patil, to share her story with parents • Avenues to help Jatin and Rashmi of children with disabilities, nationally and internationally. Achieving financial independence for Rashmi 44 45

#MISSINGGIRLS MIRIAM CHANDY MENACHERRY & ALIYA FURNITUREWALA

Photo Credit Leena Kejriwal 46 #MissingGirls Good Pitch Good Pitch Miriam Chandy Menacherry Aliya Furniturewala 47 India India Director Associate Producer [email protected] [email protected]

The Team Miriam Chandy Menacherry Aliya Furniturewla Miriam’s award-winning films have been Aliya Furniturewla has worked in media broadcast on the National Geographic for almost a decade. In her vast spectrum #MISSINGGIRLS Channel, BBC World and Arte. Her of experience she has worked on content documentaries include The Rat Race for Channel News Asia, UTV, which has that won the Mipdoc Co-production produced shows for the likes of National Challenge at Cannes and won the audience Geographic and BBC. She has grown in her awards at Florence and Kerala. Lyari Notes, line of work from a Researcher, Reporter he true life stories behind her Indo-Pak co-production with filmmaker, to a Producer. THE MYSTERIOUS WATERSCAPES OF THE Maheen Zia, premiered at IDFA and was a nationwide MISSING public nominated for the Alliance of Women Film art campaign. In villages like SUNDERBANS AND LEENA’S EVOCATIVE STILLS Journalists Award and the Youth Jury at T Sheffield. It won the top awards at the Kultoli in the Sunderbans, every Bodhisattva International Festival, IDPA other home has a tale of a missing CREATE DRAMATIC PAUSES TO AN INTRIGUING and ARY International Film Festival and girl. Villagers worship the powerful multiple broadcasts on Al Jazeera. Mother Goddess and yet child NARRATIVE THAT GIVES A GLIMPSE INTO marriage for girls is so prevalent that it drives them into the hands INSTITUTIONALISED TRAFFICKING. of traffickers.

Cases of abduction of underage girls At Good Pitch India we are looking for We want our film to that lead into hostels, homes, police • Pledge to support and/or execute an • Travel as widely as possible besides stations and sometimes face-to-face outreach campaign for the Missing public broadcasts and the festival circuit. Theatrical with traffickers are rampant. The film art and awareness project with the film at release in India as well as internationally; a captures the hurdles for artist, Leena the centre well-designed pre-release campaign with Kejriwal, and her band of girls to access celebrities supporting the film and campaign, • Missing public art installations with each story including a landmark case working out a series of pre-booked screenings Augmented Reality (AR) component that where a missing girl returns to file a across alternative theatre networks, with link back to the film case against her traffickers. The mysterious “Missing” public art installations and stencil waterscapes of the Sunderbans and • Help with funds to contribute to production project attached Leena’s evocative stills create dramatic of the film Focus group and academic screenings in pauses to an intriguing narrative that gives • • Outreach design and impact strategy schools, universities, NGOs and policy makers; a glimpse into institutionalised trafficking. organise sponsored screenings as fundraisers, The protagonists provide a counter-narrative • As a co-producer, connect with the right attached with art campaign stencil activity; of grit and determination that reclaims the alliances for the film special events to raise funds for the Missing strength of the Mother Goddess. Public Art comic books or game plays for the participants; special screenings in vulnerable rural areas with a projector and screen set up

• Sponsor academic and vocational training for the girls in the film

The Missing Public Art campaign @ www.SaveMissingGirls.com 48 49 50 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 51 India India

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1018MB Parth Salva ABHIVYAKTI MEDIA Ranjeet Gadgil Business Manager Program Head, Media Production Unit What does your job involve? 1018MB’s Vision FOR DEVELOPMENT What does your job involve? Abhivyakti Media for Parth is an experienced Media Specialist 1018MB is the next generation of I work in an NGO named Abhivyakti Development’s Vision with a demonstrated history of working cinema viewing, where you get to Media for Development in Nashik. Abhivyakti facilitates media and in the media industry. He is skilled in watch your favorite fi lm at your My job involves capacity building communication strategies for Media Production Management, Film favorite cinema, with your friends. of social activists from grassroots grassroots organizations since 1987. Marketing, Public Relation and Commu- organisations and voluntary groups We believe community media is an nication. He is a strong operations What is your website? with media skills and perspectives. eff ective tool for generating social professional with a Post Graduate 1018mb.com We facilitate the process of community change. Currently, we are working with Diploma focused in Communication video production and promote use 60 villages from 4 districts of North and Media. Studied from Whistling of community media as a tool for Maharashtra, and training communities Woods International. advocacy at the grassroots level in with video production as well as Parth Salva Ranjeet Gadgil order to strengthen local governance. other forms of community media. Each year, we organize the Ankur Film Festival, which is a platform for young, What is your website? budding grassroots fi lmmakers to abhivyakti.org exhibit their socially relevant fi lms.

AAVISHKAAR Abhishek Mittal AIB Manaswi Mohata C E O ’ s O ffi c e Senior Writer

What does your job involve? Aavishkaar’s Vision What does your job involve? AIB’s Vision Abhishek has nearly 12 years of experie- Aavishkaar founded in 2001, with Manaswi is a senior writer at All India AIB is a comedy collective and a nce across Investment Management, a vision to catalyse development in Bakchod (AIB). She has written videos youth infl uencing company. Basically, Corporate Finance & Business Consulting the underserved regions - identifi es like A Woman’s Besties Parts 1 and 2, we make cool shit for young India. roles. While working with JM Financial capable entrepreneurs, provides The Bollywood Diva song with Kangana and Everstone Capital, he managed them with capital, supplements Ranaut, An Ode to Karni Sena and What is your website? fi nancial assets worth $450 million and them with nurturing environments headed the YouTube Creators for facebook.com/IndiaBakchod worked on investment deals across the and helps build sustainable Change project for AIB. She’s also real estate, retail and hospitality sectors. enterprises. It has adopted venture written this bio, but she’s afraid it’s He also worked on conceptualizing capital methodology to serve the not her best work. investment products targeting socially low income market segment by Abhishek Mittal Manaswi Mohata conscious capital. He has a Master in creating scalable enterprises Public Administration from the School of International and Public Aff airs, Columbia What is your website? University an MBA from Indian Institute of aavishkaar.in Management with an Engineering Degree from Delhi University. At Aavishkaar, Abhishek works with the CEO and is spearheading the Africa Fund launch. 54 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 55 India India

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AKSHARA FOUNDATION Mridula Chakraborty ALI YAVAR JUNG Dr. Ashok Kumar Sinha Founder NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SPEECH AND Director OF ARTS AND LEARNING What does your job involve? Akshara Foundation of Arts HEARING DISABILITIES (DIVYANGJAN) What does your job involve? AYJNIHH’s Vision With her passion for art and aesthetics, and Learning’s Vision As Director of Ali Yavar Jung National Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of Mridula brings great knowledge Akshara Foundation of Arts and Institute of Speech and Hearing Dis- Speech and Hearing Disabilities (Divyan- and direction to the projects of the Learning is a not-for-profi t public abilities (Divyangjan), my work is to gjan) is one of the apex National Institutes Foundation since its inception in 2007. trust based in Mumbai. It was founded lead the Institute on modern lines for of The Ministry of Social Justice and A masters in English Literature, she in 2007 by professionals from the diagnosis, rehabilitation and training Empowerment, Department of Empower- believes in the integration of liberal education and the arts, with the aim of of the professionals in the fi eld of Audio- ment of persons with Disabilities, arts in education for all children. integrating the arts and education. logy, Speech and Language pathology, Government of India located at Bandra education of children of hearing disability West in Mumbai. The Institute provides What is your website? and sign language.Persons with hearing state of the art facilities for the diagnosis afalindia.com disability are now provided with digital and therapy of speech language and Mridula Chakraborty Dr. Ashok Kumar Sinha programmable hearing aids and cochlear hearing disorder. Institute provides aids implant free of cost as new government and appliances under the Government of policy. Speech language disability is now India Scheme free of cost to persons having included in new Rights of Persons with family income of ` 15000/- per month. Disability Act 2016. What is your website? ayjnihh.nic.in

AKSHARA FOUNDATION Vaibhavi Kunal ALLIANCE MEDIA & Sunil Doshi OF ARTS AND LEARNING Co - Founder ENTERTAINMENT PVT. LTD. Director What does your job involve? What does your job involve? Alliance Media & Entertainment I spearhead the programmes for Curation, Aggregation and Pvt. Ltd.’s Vision Akshara Foundation of Arts and Distribution of Premium Content. Alliance Media & Entertainment is one Learning and am also involved in the of the leading content aggregators management of Akshara High School and curators of premium content from around the world, including feature fi lms, TV series and documentaries for traditional and non-traditional distribution in the Indian sub-continent.

Vaibhavi Kunal Sunil Doshi What is your website? alliancemedia.in 56 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 57 India India

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ARAMBHAN GROUP Alfred Arambhan ATMA Mary Ellen Matsui Chairman Executive Director

What does your job involve? Arambhan Group’s Vision What does your job involve? Atma’s Vision Mr. Alfred Micheal Arambhan is Ethically forward is our tagline, Mary Ellen Matsui is the Executive Atma is an NGO, acting as an the Founder & Group Head of and this belief and mindset sets Director of Atma. She has grown accelerator for education in Mumbai the Arambhan Group. He is a fi rst the strong culture and foundation Atma’s portfolio substantially in and Pune. We help NGOs become generation Serial Entrepreneur. of all our businesses. We strive Mumbai bringing a concerted focus bigger, better, and stronger over a He is responsible for the Vision, to provide reliable and effi cient, on special education and life skills 3-year hands-on capacity-building Policy & Planning for the Group. top quality, and competitively-priced education. She has consulted over programme. Atma’s mission is to build services to our customers, and 30 education organisations and capacity of education NGOs to achieve consistently deliver on our has been a panelist and advisor for sustainability and scalability thereby commitments. organisations such as UnLtd India, enabling delivery of quality education. Edupreneur Quest and UNICEF. Mary Alfred Arambhan Mary Ellen Matsui What is your website? is also a member of the inaugural Dasra What is your website? arambhangroup.com Social Impact Leadership Programme. atma.org.in Originally from Canada, Mary has been working in educational development in India for many years now.

ASHOKA INNOVATORS Ashwin Naik BAL ASHA TRUST Sunil Arora Leadership Group Member Executive Director FOR THE PUBLIC & Resident Fellow What does your job involve? Ashoka Innovators for What does your job involve? Bal Asha Trust’s Vision Identifying and supporting the Public’s Vision I am the Executive Director of Bal Bal Asha Trust has been working for game changing social Ashoka’s Youth Venture inspires Asha Trust. My NGO has been working vulnerable children for the past 32 entrepreneurs and young and invests in teams of young people for vulnerable destitute children for years. It runs a home for destitute changemakes. as they start their own sustainable the past 32 years in Maharashtra.We children and a child development social ventures, connecting them into provide quality care to children while centre in Mumbai. Bal Asha Trust takes a powerful global network. Collectively, in the homes and specialise in the programs for creating awareness these young changemakers are rehabilitation of these children. We also for diff erent stake holders. redefi ning the youth years as a time run projects on Education and Disability. of initiative and positive change. What is your website? Ashwin Naik Sunil Arora balashatrust.org What is your website? ashoka.org 58 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 59 India India

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BHARATIYA DIGITAL Paula McGlynn BLU DOT ADVISORY Darshita Gillies CEO / Producer Executive Director

PARTY What does your job involve? Bharatiya Digital Party’s Vision What does your job involve? Screenwriter, CEO/Producer Bharatiya Digital Party is the fi rst Darshita is a millennial, born in Mumbai, and Family offi ces. Darshita was at Gulbadan Talkies Pvt. Ltd. exclusively Marathi content brand in India to a conservative Hindu family. the Founding Director of Conscious & Bharatiya Digital Party. the digital space. Producing cutting After qualifying with an M.Com and Capitalism, UK and continues to hold edge content in comedy, entertainment, as ‘47th all-India rank’ Chartered a few honorary advisory roles. and music, BhaDiPa (for-short) has Accountant, she has worked with Throughout, she is unconditionally been trying to push the envelope for the board of directors at Standard supported by her ‘playfully provoking Marathi-language content for a new Chartered. After banking, she has and inspiring’ husband, Rowan, and generation. co-founded two companies: Ease on daughter, Tara. Edge and Blu Dot Advisory, as vehicles What is your website? to address complex interpersonal, Blu Dot Advisory’s Vision Paula McGlynn Darshita Gillies www.facebook.com/BhaDiPa business and societal challenges in Blu Dot is a global social enterprise a more sustainable, conscious, and with a purpose to synergise strategic way. She works closely with systemic stewardship of people, the United Nations, Vatican, Church planet and process. of England, Governments, MNCs, Non-Profi ts, fellow Impact Investors What is your website? blu-dot.org

BLACK TICKET FILMS Karan Thapliyal BREAKTHROUGH Piyush Garud Cinematographer Manager, Video Production

What does your job involve? Black Ticket Film’s Vision What does your job involve? Breakthrough’s Vision Karan is the Cinematographer Black Ticket Films (BTF) is a creative My job at Breakthrough involves Breakthrough is a human rights at Black Ticket Films. and fi lm production agency based in producing digital content to help our organisation working to make violence New Delhi, India, that designs com- campaigns online and on-ground. and discrimination against women munication for social transformation. and girls unacceptable. Our cutting- Through its multiple award winning edge multimedia campaigns, community fi lms, BTF has showcased development mobilization, agenda-setting, and and responsible business as exciting leadership training equip men and spaces charged with tangible outcomes. women worldwide to challenge the Filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit status quo and take bold action for the Ghosh founded BTF in the summer dignity, equality, and justice of all. Karan Thapliyal Piyush Garud of 2009. What is your website? What is your website? inbreakthrough.tv blackticketfi lms.com 60 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 61 India India

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BREAKTHROUGH Jenny Paterson CAPITAL FIRST Rachana Iyer CEO

DUNDEE What does your job involve? Breakthrough Dundee’s Vision What does your job involve? Capital First’s Vision Jenny led the work of the National BREAKTHROUGH is set to bring Rachana Iyer leads Corporate Social Capital First Limited, listed in Autistic Society Scotland between 2014 a revolution of change for care Responsibility at Capital First. She has NSE and BSE, is a leading Indian and March 2018 as the Director. The experienced young people in Dundee worked extensively in the social impact fi nancial institution, specializing National Autistic Society has a global secondary schools. We are connecting sector as a social entrepreneur, mental in providing debt fi nancing to reputation for excellence and is the UK’s adults and organisations who care, health advocate and writer. A graduate MSMEs and Consumers in India. leading charity for autistic people (inc- to young people disadvantaged from The Tata Institute of Social luding those with Asperger syndrome) through no fault of their own. We aim Sciences, she has worked across India, What is your website? and their families. The charity provides to transform lives, buff ering the long- East Africa and the U.S on development capitalfi rst.com information, support and pioneering term eff ects of adverse experiences. projects focussing on Health, Education, services, and campaign for a better Gender, Agriculture and Mental Health. Jenny Paterson Rachana Iyer world for autistic people. Jenny has very What is your website? recently become CEO of BREAKTHRO- wpcluster.dctdigital.com/ UGH - a new Scottish NGO supporting breakthroughdundee young people, aiming to transform their lives through support in schools, mentoring and work experience.

BW BUSINESSWORLD Anurag Batra CAUSE EFFECT Megha Ramaswamy MEDIA GROUP Chairman & Editor in Chief Founder What does your job involve? BW Businessworld’s Vision What does your job involve? Cause Eff ect’s Vision Anurag Batra is a serial entrepreneur, Since taking over BW Businessworld Megha Ramaswamy is a Mumbai-based Cause Eff ect is a platform that media mogul, a journalist and an eternal 13 months back, Anurag Batra has screenwriter, director and producer. Her produces cause-related content optimist rolled into one. He is a B.Tech expanded BW Businessworld into digital, banner, Missfi t Films, is dedicated and outreach programs. A series in Computer Sciences, a degree, which events and BW communities and has to producing innovative fi lms, which of videos on social issues have been he acquired before joining Management taken into its fold www.digitalmarket.asia, subscribe to being neither independent produced under the platform like the Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, a leading website on digital marketing, nor commercial. She co-hosts Cause short A Heartwarming Video about one of India’s leading business schools. www.everythingexperiential.com - Eff ect, a platform that produces cause parenting which highlighted the He is a fi rst generation entrepreneur and India’s leading experiential marketing related content and outreach programs. emotions and challenges of the parents after acquiring the iconic business media website and launched BW Hotelier in Recently, she has made the short and siblings of children with Down and magazine brand BW Businessworld, partnership with Hotelier International. fi l mWake Up, for Kailash Satyarthi’s Syndrome by juxtaposing their Q&A Anurag Batra Megha Ramaswamy is its Chairman. Businessworld is a 35 BW Smart Cities, an editorial platform Childrens Foundation. It serves as an reactions against parents whose year strong media brand as well as the in a 360 degree format is to be launched appeal to fi ght the labour exploitation children do not have Down Syndrome. most respected business publication in mid February Anurag is building the of disenfranchised children. in the country. BW Businessworld business aggressively. What is your website? megharamaswamy.com What is your website? businessworld.in 62 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 63 India India

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CENTRE FOR Parth Shah COMET MEDIA Chandita Mukherjee President Director

CIVIL SOCIETY What does your job involve? Centre for Civil Society’s Vision FOUNDATION What does your job involve? Comet Media’s Vision Research and advocacy on Centre for Civil Society (CCS) envisions Chandita Mukherjee is the Director of Comet Media Foundation is an inde- education policy, livelihood issues that each individual leads a life of choice Comet Media Foundation. A fi lmmaker pendent NGO focusing its eff orts on and governance challenges and every institution is accountable. trained at the Film & Television Institute media alternatives for education and CCS advances social change through of India, her work is largely in the areas social change. Comet has produced a public policy. Our work in education, of science, technology and society. One number of fi lms and publications on livelihood, and policy training promotes of her landmark projects on the history educational themes. They have also choice and accountability across of Indian science and technology, the conceptualised and hosted (together with private and public sectors. To translate series Bharat Ki Chaap won wide acclaim partner NGOs) a number of Vividhas - policy into practice, we engage with and was awarded the Jules Verne Prize. educational resource festivals in diff erent policy and opinion leaders through She is currently working on a series of parts of the country. Currently they are Parth Shah Chandita Mukherjee research, pilot projects and advocacy. videos called Understanding Design in running a website called www.samata. partnership with the IDC School of shiksha around the theme of equity in What is your website? Design at IIT Bombay. She also access to education, in partnership with ccs.in conducts workshops in documentary the Govt. of Maharashtra and UNICEF. fi lmmaking at various institutes. What is your website? cometmedia.org

CINETIC Shantanu Sharma CONSULATE GENERAL Etienne Lambert Co - Founder Consul, Political/Economic OF CANADA and Public Aff airs What does your job involve? Cinetic’s Vision What does your job involve? Consulate General I am the co-founder of Cinetic, Cinetic is a fi lm distribution startup Etienne Lambert became Consul for of Canada’s Vision an organization aimed to create that was built by three students of Political, Economic, and Public Aff airs The Government of Canada works an alternate cinema based only BITS Pilani Goa Campus to create an in Mumbai in 2018. He has previously to promote democracy and respect on the quality of movies, and to alternate cinema platform in India, one worked on academic relations, for human rights and contributes to promote independent fi lms. We that would focus only on the quality of education promotion, political/ eff ective global governance and screen these fi lms across halls fi lms, and not the fi nancial backing or economic analysis and public aff airs international security. and colleges in India. popularity of actors in it. It promotes fi les in Japan and Nigeria. In Ottawa, independent fi lms, screening them he worked on public diplomacy, media What is your website? across halls and colleges in India, as relations, G8/G20 summitry, policy india.gc.ca well as organizing talks with young development, advocacy in the United Shantanu Sharma Etienne Lambert students. Its mission is to create an States, the Korean Peninsula, and equal cinema that thrives on talent. Japan relations. Etienne is married to Erin Popelka and they have two What is your website? of the cutest cats, Taco and Lilou. facebook.com/cinetic1 64 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 65 India India

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CONSULATE GENERAL Jordan Reeves COOLAB MEDIA Sumeet Kamath Consul General of Canada, Director & Co-Founder, Mumbai Business & Strategy, OF CANADA What does your job involve? What does your job involve? Jordan Reeves was appointed Consul Co-Founder, Tech & Data General in Mumbai in 2015. He has worked Consultant, Workfl ow Consultant, on both trade and public aff airs fi les in the Business and Strategy. Netherlands, Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, and in Saudi Arabia. In Ottawa, he worked as a policy adviser to the Assistant Deputy Minister for International Business Development and was selected to serve on a team supporting the department’s work on Canada’s Global Markets Action Jordan Reeves Sumeet Kamath Plan (2013). In recognition of his contribution to Canada-China commercial relations, he received the Foreign Service Award in 2010. Jordan is married to Jennifer Reeves. They have three children, Noah, Cameron and Gemma.

COOLAB MEDIA Sreeram Ramanathan DASRA Sriparna Ganguly Co-Founder & Associate Director Creative Producer What does your job involve? Coolab Media’s Vision What does your job involve? Dasra’s Vision Co-Founder, Creative Producer, A Mumbai based, collaborative Sriparna Ganguly leads the Dasra Dasra (registered as Impact Foundation Editor, Workfl ow Consultant, Aerial, boutique studio for visual post. Democracy and Governance Collab- India), means enlightened giving in Sans- Cinematographer, Consultant orative. She has worked extensively on krit, and was formed in 1999 as an NGO, - Special Shots, Filmmaker. What is your website? decentralized governance, leadership for NGOs, to help non-profi ts improve coolab.in building of political practitioners, and their implementation of programs. policy advocacy. Prior to joining Dasra, Driven by our mission to transform India, Sriparna has worked as Director of The where a billion thrive with dignity and Hunger Project India, as a national co- equity, Dasra collaborates with various ordinator for strengthening local central and state ministries, individuals, governments at the Jawaharlal Nehru foundations and corporates, to strengt- Sreeram Ramanathan Sriparna Ganguly Leadership Institute, and in several hen partnerships between civil society FMCG companies. She specializes in and government, and ensure India building and managing large scale achieves its sustainable development interventions and networks. Sriparna goals for all its citizens. We have a sector has a postgraduate diploma from the focus on empowering adolescents, urban Institute of Rural Management Anand sanitation and strengthening democracy. (IRMA) and a BA in Mathematical Statistics from Lady Shri Ram College, What is your website? University of Delhi. dasra.org 66 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 67 India India

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DEMAND.FILM Barbara Connell DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT Osama Manzar COO & Director, Development Founder & Director

What does your job involve? Demand.Film’s Vision FOUNDATION What does your job involve? Digital Empowerment I am the COO and Director, Development Theatrical Distribution company Osama Manzar is the founder and Foundation’s Vision for Demand Film, a global cinema operating in 5 countries currently director of Digital Empowerment Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) on demand platform that primarily (Australia, New Zealand, United Foundation. He is a global leader on is a not-for-profi t organisation working leverages crowd-sourcing principles Kingdom, Ireland & Germany) the mission of eradicating information since 2002 to eradicate information for theatrical distribution of poverty from India and the global poverty and create equitable society documentaries and narrative features. What is your website? south using digital tools. He is a social where every human being has the right demand.fi lm entrepreneur, author, columnist, impact to access and consume information speaker, angel investor, mentor, and without any hindrance of bias. DEF has sits on several government and policy digital empowered more than 5 million committees in India and on international people in India and several other countries Barbara Connell Osama Manzar organisations working in the areas of through out-of-the-box solutions and ideas. Internet, access, and digital inclusion. What is your website? defi ndia.org

DHL Akansha Pradhan DOCEDGE KOLKATA Nilotpal Majumdar Head of Corporate Founder / President Communication & CSR What does your job involve? DHL’s Vision What does your job involve? Docedge Kolkata’s Vision Akansha Pradhan serves as the Head DHL is the leading global brand in the Founder/President of Documentary Docedge Kolkata is India’s largest of Corporate Communication and logistics industry. Our DHL family of Resource Initiative (DRI), Kolkata. DRI’s Documentary pitching and Incubation CSR at DHL Express. This is a company divisions off er an unrivalled portfolio of foremost activity is Docedge Kolkata, platform, which invites documentary that is present in over 220+ countries logistics services ranging from national Asian Forum for Documentary, an fi lmmakers from India and rest of Asia and has a larger geographical footprint and international parcel delivery, intensive incubation cum pitching forum and the world to pitch their projects to than the United Nations, Coca Cola e-commerce shipping and fulfi llment for Indian Asian fi lmmakers. In its year- the top funding agencies of the world. and even McDonalds! Over the last 13 solutions, international express, road, round activities, DRI is engaged with years, Akansha has held key leadership air and ocean transport to industrial Indian/Asian documentary fi lmmakers What is your website? mandates with marquee groups such supply chain management. With about through mentoring, training and fi nding docresi.org as Reliance, Tata, and the Piramals. She 360,000 employees in more than 220 co-production opportunities for them. Akansha Pradhan Nilotpal Majumdar has been ranked as the “Top 50 most countries and territories worldwide, A Postgraduate from Film and Television talented” corporate communication DHL connects people and businesses Institute of India, Pune with specialization leaders by the World CSR Congress. securely and reliably, enabling global in Editing, he has been working as Writer, trade fl ows. DHL is decisively positioned Director, Editor and Cinematographer for as “The logistics company for the world”. documentary and fi ction too. Presently he is the Director, Manipur State Film What is your website? and Television Institute, Imphal, Manipur. dhl.com 68 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 69 India India

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DOCEDGE KOLKATA Vikram Arora DOCUMAKERS.COM Harish Bhimani Head of Publication, Founder Production and Social Media What does your job involve? What does your job involve? I am a fi lmmaker and an editor Media has known various avatars of iconic “Samay” of the TV serial working in India and Europe. I Harish Bhimani. He is one of the most Mahabharat! have also been associated with recognisable voices of India, a well Documakers.com’s Vision DocedgeKolkata documentary travelled compere, a prolifi c writer and Documakers.com is a platform Harish is pitching and incubation platform. a docu-maker. He has written dialogues building for the docs-shorts community for TV serials Khandaan, Subah, Inkaar, after making some 22 fi lms. Sukanya, Grahan, and fIlms like Roshni, ISIS-Enemies of Humanity. He has What is your website? written the biography - In Search of documakers.com Lata Mangeshkar, and written six mini Vikram Arora Harish Bhimani books of fi lm legends. He has compered 250 concerts in 24 countries and is the only recipient of HMV’s Gold Disc for a concert album. He has won a national award in 2016 for his voice overs. Most notebaly, he has been the voice of the

DOCS & SHORTS Ramesh Tekwani DRISHTI Debarun Dutta President Executive Director

What does your job involve? Docs & Short’s Vision What does your job involve? Drishti’s Vision As an active fi lmmaker for over 40 Docs & Shorts is a not-for-profi t NGO Debarun Dutta is a development Drishti is a leading human rights and years, Ramesh Tekwani has written registered with the Charity Commissioner. communicator based out of development organization that uses and directed more than 500 Its mission is to help Indian documentary Ahmedabad. He has been working and media, communications and the arts to Presentations, Shorts, Advertisement fi lmmakers keep abreast of opportunities, leading a media arts and human rights strengthen India’s social movements and Films and Documentaries including techniques and technology to make their organisation called Drishti for the last organisations, in order to extend their Business Videos and TV serials for kind of movies and then help to take 10 years. While in Drishti he has handled reach and to increase the participation various clients and commissioning their work across India and the globe to multiple creative roles like grassroots of marginalised communities. entities; and, today, he uses the enlighten and empower audiences; while media trainer, director of Drishti’s cumulative experience and connec- simultaneously, engendering sustainable radio station, campaign manager and What is your website? tions to mentor fi lmmakers; help support, ideologically, technically also in producing small fi lms for social drishtimedia.org Ramesh Tekwani Debarun Dutta fund, exhibit and monetise their work; and monetarily; to keep them going. change for diff erent organization. It promote themselves and their work. was under his mentorship that Drishti What is your website? made the national award winning docsandshorts.org fi l mGoonga Pehelwan in 2015. 70 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 71 India India

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EDUCATE GIRLS Pooja Mishra EMPATHY CONNECTS Nitesh Sachan Deputy Senior Manager, Founder Communications What does your job involve? Educate Girls’ Vision What does your job involve? Empathy Connects’ Vision Pooja is the Deputy Senior Educate Girls is a non-profi t I am the founder of a for - impact Empathy Connects is a for-impact Manager of Communications organisation that aims to tackle issues initiative named Empathy Connects, initiative of Tathaastu Social Initiatives, at Educate Girls at the root cause of gender inequality built with the objective of connecting a society registered in India. We in India’s education system. The and engaging motivated individuals identify and partner with organizations organization was founded in 2007 with existing social development and social enterprises with sustainable by Safeena Husain, who has been movements across India. impact at grassroots across India. committed to girls’ education since Our mission is to create informed 2002. Educate Girls works to re- citizens with an experience of grassroots form government schools by realities through travel, internship leveraging existing community and and cultural immersion programs. Pooja Mishra Nitesh Sachan government resources. Along with education, the NGO focuses on What is your website? improving school infrastructure empathyconnects.org for girls, bringing about community ownership and advocating girl leadership.

What is your website? educategirls.in EDUCATE GIRLS Safeena Husain ENACTUS Farhan Pettiwala Founder, CEO President

What does your job involve? What does your job involve? Enactus’ Vision A London School of Economics A former IAS cadre, who chose to Enactus is an international nonprofi t graduate, Safeena Husain is the work in the corporate world, Farhan organization dedicated to inspiring Founder and Executive Director of the Pettiwala has expertise in business students to improve the world through international award-winning non-profi t strategy formulation, country-wide entrepreneurial action. They provide organisation - Educate Girls. Since its mergers and acquisitions, joint a platform for teams of outstanding inception, Educate Girls has consistently ventures, and business expansion. university students to create community scaled its operations and presently It is backed by an extensive development projects that put people’s works in 21,000 government-run primary experience of more than 25 years own ingenuity and talents at the schools spread across 15 districts of in various senior management and center of improving their livelihoods. Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. With executive roles. He has in-depth Safeena Husain Farhan Pettiwala support from the government and knowledge and understanding about What is your website? the community, the organisation has subjects like engineering, environment, enactus.org enrolled over 200,000 out-of-school renewable energy, infrastructure girls achieving over 90% retention development, skill development, and has improved learning outcomes EPC, ITES, retail, telecom, media, for over 650,000 children so far. digital services, automobile, and pharmaceutical domains. 72 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 73 India India

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FILAMNT Kunal Jhaveri FILM KARAVAN Apoorva Bakshi Founder & CEO Head of Original Production

What does your job involve? Filamnt’s Vision What does your job involve? Film Karavan’s Vision Programming, Promoting and We are a newly formed company Apoorva heads Original Productions at Film Karavan is a streamlined Distributing Independent Films specialising in programming Golden Karavan & Film Karavan. She has aggregation and delivery solution house i.e Shorts, Documentaries and and distribution of Independent been a fi erce champion of South Asian that aggregates, encodes, packages and mainly Regional Feature Films Films in India. Our mission is to independents and has successfully delivers the fi lmmaker’s digital assets through my platform, Filamnt. create sustainable opportunities distributed a strong portfolio of critically to major digital platforms like iTunes, for Independent Film in India. acclaimed fi lms including the Golden Google Play, Amazon, Dish, M-GO, Globe Shortlist Nagraj Manjule’s Fandry, BSkyB and 40 more, in one effi cient What is your website? Kanu Behl’s Canne Select Titli, Abhay stream. We believe in the content of the fi lamnt.in Kumar’s IDFA winner Placebo, Richie fi lmmaker and assure an unapologetic Mehta’s Genie Award-nominated, Venice release of the title. We not only mobilize Kunal Jhaveri Apoorva Bakshi premiere Siddharth and festival favourite marketing moneys to highlight the indie Amal Manish’s Loins Of Punjab, Aditya gems on store fronts, but also channelise Sen Gupta’s Venice Winner Labour Of social media marketing to enhance sales. Love, Payal Sethi’s hard-hitting Leeches and Vetrimaaran’s Indian Selection for What is your website? the Oscars, Visaranai among others. fi lmkaravan.com

FILM INDIA Uma da Cunha FILMBOOTH Gaurav Raturi WORLDWIDE Film Executive Co - Founder What does your job involve? Film India Worldwide’s Vision What does your job involve? Filmbooth’s Vision Uma da Cunha is a fi lm curator/ Film India Worldwide aims to I am a Short / Indie / Documentary fi lm Filmbooth is an organisation programmer for fi lm festivals in India promote India independent promoter and curator. I run First Cut - promoting short and indie fi lms in and abroad. Editor of a quarterly cinema both within India and a series to promote unseen short fi lms India using screenings, festivals and magazine Film India Worldwide and abroad in all its genres for festivals in India across multiple cities. I am also distribution. We are also building a fi lm journalist writing for the web- and also for fi lm professionals. building Cinemapreneur, a community a community of fi lm lovers across portal thecitizen.in. Uma da Cunha of entrepreneurs working in the fi eld of Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. also evaluates scripts for professional What is your website? fi lms. I have programmed more than organisations. fi lmindiaglobal.com 7 fi lm festivals and 50 fi lm screenings What is your website? in the last 7 years in India. The festivals fi lmbooth.in have been in Fiction / Non Fiction/ Uma da Cunha Gaurav Raturi Social Issues / MDG / Comedy and other genres. 74 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 75 India India

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FORUM FOR AUTISM Chitra Iyer FREE_D Katherine Prescott Trustee & Treasurer Founder

What does your job involve? Forum For Autism’s Vision What does your job involve? Free_D’s Vision I am the mother of a very happy Forum For Autism (FFA) is Katherine is the co - founder and Free_D looks to provide reintegration 19-year-old, Shravan, who has autism a parent body created with the CEO of FREE_D, a social enterprise programs for disadvantaged women in and cerebral palsy. I am the Trustee aim to empathize with each with a mission to support and up-skill India. We see huge potential in using and Treasurer of Forum for Autism, other, understand their concerns disadvantaged women in India. 3D printing to up-skill underprivileged an NGO and parent support group for and anxiety, fi ght the common FREE_D is a passion project for women, enabling them to become parents of children with Autism since cause. The primary aim of Katherine where her enthusiasm for engineers, designers, go onto further 2000. I have been an advocate for FFA is to improve facilities for new technology and support for education or work in industry, while also the rights of people with Autism and diagnosis, education, training women empowerment can go hand providing a source of stable income. am actively involved in campaigns to and rehabilitation of persons in hand. Educated in Art and Design raise awareness and educate parents, with Autisim and Related from Central Saint Martins College What is your website? Chitra Iyer Katherine Prescott professionals and society about Autism. Developmental Disorders, of Art and Design, London, Katherine free-d.org.uk Being a Certifi ed Financial Planner, and for this purpose, to sought to apply her skills to teach I am actively involved in making a undertake various activities. marginalised women, with the hope meaningful diff erence in people’s to give them a better future. life through right fi nancial What is your website? planning for our client families. forumforautism.org

FORUM FOR AUTISM Parul Kumtha FREE A GIRL Shikha Phillips President CEO/ Executive Director

What does your job involve? INDIA What does your job involve? Free a Girl India’s Vision President, Forum for Autism. Principal Shikha is the CEO of Free a Girl Free a Girl is an international Architect, Nature Nurture Architects India, an organisation that aims to organisation dedicated to rescuing and Planners. Empanelled Universal fi ght against human traffi cking and young girls from forced prostitution. Designer with Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan, commercial sexual exploitation of Besides supporting the rescue and Government of India. Lecturer, Sir J.J. children. They do this by raising rehabilitation of victims of forced College of Architecture. Counselor awareness about the problem of prostitution, we provide them with in Narrative Practices at Adult child prostitution and the impunity access to education, vocational training, Support Kendra and Ummeed Child of off enders of child prostitution. medical care, and trauma counselling. Development Centre. We invest in legal teams to provide legal aid to rescued girls and to prosecute the Parul Kumtha off enders. Through our projects and campaigns, we have contributed to the liberation of thousands of girls from bro- thels as well as supported their rehab- ilitation and reintegration into society.

What is your website? freeagirlindia.org 76 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 77 India India

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GOING TO SCHOOL Lisa Heydlauff HAQDARSHAK Aniket Doegar Founder EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. Co-founder and CEO What does your job involve? Going to School’s Vision What does your job involve? Haqdarshak’s Vision Making something out of nothing Going to School is a creative I’m the co-founder and CEO A mobile and web technology to change the way things are with not-for-profi t education company of Haqdarshak Empowerment platform working on the delivery of and for children. that makes design-driven stories Solutions Pvt. Ltd. government and non government to teach children skills at school schemes to eligible citizens through a and on national television. network of community entrepreneurs.

What is your website? What is your website? goingtoschool.com haqdarshak.com

Lisa Heydlauff Aniket Doegar

GREY GROUP Yashaswini Samat HARISH AND BINA SHAH Bina Shah Executive Vice President FOUNDATION Executive Director What does your job involve? Grey Group’s Vision What does your job involve? Harish and Bina Shah Yashaswini Samat oversees all P&G GREY group India is a part of Bina Shah is the Executive Director Foundation’s Vision business at Grey Group Asia Pacifi c, GREY group, which ranks among of Signet Chemical Corporation, India’s The HBS Foundation supports a diverse Middle East, and Africa. Her role the world’s top advertising and leading Pharmaceutical Raw Materials range of non profi ts with varying degrees includes overseeing the commu- marketing organizations. With Distribution Company. Bina has been of fi nancial and advisory support. nication across touch points, driving innovation at our core, we aim to involved in the company’s HR, Systems Among other causes, the Foundation innovation and capability building to create the most compelling brand and Finance related functions since supports betterment of public education, meet future challenges. Prior to this, experiences across platforms and inception. Bina is also a Director of malnutrition, sanitation, sex traffi cking, she was the Global Brand Agency help build meaningful consumer Harish and Bina Shah Foundation child marriage and governance matters in Leader of P&G’s Pantene account, connections. We steer Famously (HBS Foundation), a family foundation India. In the coming year, the Foundation based in New York. Yashaswini is an Eff ective work for some of India’s which supports non-profi ts working in intends to maintain a diversifi ed portfolio, Yashaswini Samat Bina Shah advertising professional with more most prestigious clients. India on issues related to governance because it is exposure to multiple issues than two decades of international and civic media, public education, and non profi ts that is providing a experience in communications, brand What is your website? hospital manage-ment and adolescent contextual understanding of social work development / management, con- grey.com and women’s empowerment amongst in India. sumer research / planning and others. She has two daughters, Amira account management. and Anushka. What is your website? signetchem.com 78 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 79 India India

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HOMEGROWN Pooja Sivaraman IDEX Vikas Vij Creative Producer Managing Director

What does your job involve? Homegrown’s Vision What does your job involve? IDEX’s Vision I am the creative producer for Homegrown is a youth media MD - Professional Beauty India The Ideas Exchange (IDEX) is the a digital youth media company company powered by an online and IDEX. Advisory Board Member home of innovative platforms bringing called Homegrown. My job involves publication, a creative agency, for Beauty and Wellness Sector together business communities to managing the videos we publish, an events arm and a talent Skills Council (BWSSC). Co-founder challenge con-vention and generate scouting for video concepts management vertical. Over time, of National Wellness Society of ideas in order to spark and inspire new and ideas, and programming for it has dug its heels deep and stood Salon and Spa Owners (NWSSO). ways of doing business. We believe content to put on our platform. steady as trailblazers in presenting that every challenge can be solved. In India’s dynamic youth culture with any given moment we may not know authenticity; dismantling cultural how to solve those challenges but we agendas to create a space that is believe that there is always another way. Pooja Sivaraman Vikas Vij nonlinear and unshackled from Together, we can create the space and stereotypes both online and offl ine. environment to solve those challenges, Represented and read by those who and what it takes to solve those cannot be defi ned or confi ned, it challenges is an IDEAS EXCHANGE. is fast becoming one of the most infl uential publications in the What is your website? country, always at the frontline of ideas-exchange.in creating, curating and cultivating change. Discover. Be discovered. HOMEGROWN Varsha Patra CEO What is your website? homegrown.co.in What does your job involve? CEO of Homegrown, a digital youth media agency.

Varsha Patra 80 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 81 India India

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Antara Telang Archana Patil Bhawana Somaaya Bishwadeep Chatterjee What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? I’ve been a company director at I am Archana Suresh Patil. Bhawana Somaaya has been writing Bishwadeep Dipak Chatterjee has a LaughGuru, an e-learning platform Blessed with two specially abled about Hindi cinema for 40 years. She is career span of almost three decades. He that teaches kids through humour, children. I am a homemaker. a fi lm critic, columnist and author of 14 has virtually worked in every department for about fi ve years. Apart from this, books. She has served on the Advisory of recording for Feature Films, Short I’m a freelance writer and illustrator, Panel of Film Certifi cate in India and is Films, Documentaries, Television Serials, with gender and disability being the currently the Entertainment Editor at Advertising Films and Music Albums. topics I’m most passionate about. 92.7 Big FM Radio channel. Somaaya His fi lmography includes fi lms like Antara Telang Bhawana Somaaya was conferred with the Padmashri Bandini, Salaam Bombay, Chanakya, Award in 2017. Junoon, Swabhiman, Ab Ke Sawan, Dooba-Dooba, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas,Munnabhai MBBS, Chokher Bali, Lage Raho Munnabhai, 3 Idiots, Parineeta, Madras Cafe, Piku, Bajirao Mastani, Padmaavat, Madras Cafe. Currently, he has just started work on Sanju.

Archana Patil Bishwadeep Chatterjee

Aruna Raje Ayesha Sayani Debanjan Sengupta Hazel Lobo What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? Aruna Raje is a writer, editor, director Ayesha Sayani, member of I’m an independent documentary Hazel is an artist activist whose and producer. She passed out of the Producer’s Guild, Director’s, Film fi lmmaker based in Kolkata, India. passion is to build giving communities. FTII Pune with a gold medal as the Writer’s, Advertising & Documentary As the founder of Anyakonokhane Since the last nine years, Hazel has fi rst trained female technician. Her Associations has won several Films, dedicated to the production shifted from ‘corporate doing’ to feature fi lms include Shaque, Gehrayee, awards for advertising fi lms, music of creative documentaries on social ‘community being’ because of her Aruna Raje Situm, Rihaee, Patita Pavana, Patita videos & her feature fi lm Hungama Debanjan Sengupta issues, animated by a craving for belief in the immense power that Pavani, Bhairavi, Keh Do Na and Tum. Bombay Ishtyle. She has worked on artistic cinematic languages, my job community has in health, healing She has also edited fi lms like Giddh Indian and foreign feature fi lms and involves developing the fi lm projects and growth. Embodied interventions and Masoom. Many of her fi lms have documentaries, served on script for international co-productions. through arts like InterPlay, Art, Dance, strong women themes and she has and fi lm festival committees and Drama, Music and Voice Movement been a voice for empowering women. juries for several advertising, Therapy (VMT) totally resonate with She has also won 5 National Awards documentary, short & feature fi lm her calling. Hazel is very clear about her for her documentaries including Mallika awards. She is presently writing a life purpose to contribute in the fi eld Sarabhai, A New Paradigm and Behind script for her next feature fi lm. of sexuality and spirituality in order to the Glass Wall (the last two were about bridge the duality that exists between children with special needs). Currently, the two, where we fail to realize they Ayesha Sayani Hazel Lobo she is working on a Marathi feature fi lm, are parts of us on the same spectrum. Firebrand, produced by Priyanka Chopra. 82 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 83 India India

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Hina Saiyada Jeroo Mulla Manoj Agiwal Meenakshi Shedde What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? I run a fi lm production company Jeroo Mulla has been teaching Film Legal Consultant to organisations like Meenakshi Shedde is South Asia Consul- ODDJOINT with my partner, Q. Appreciation, Photography, Fundamen- the First Response, Swach Bharat, tant to the Berlin Film Festival (since 1998) tal Concepts of Communications, and and Insurance TPA industry. Advisory and Dubai Film Festival, based in Mumbai, supervising student documentaries at the services on Agreements HR Labour India. Winner of India’s National Award for Sophia Polytechnic for over 30 years. She Laws. Representation services in Best Film Critic, she has been on the jury was the Head of the Sophia Institute of appropriate courts in Civil and of 20 fi lm festivals, including Cannes, Berlin Social Communications Media, Mumbai Criminal cases. and Venice. She has been India / South Hina Saiyada Manoj Agiwal from 2012 - 2013 and the Head of the Asia Curator /Consultant to fi lm festivals Social Communications Media Depart- worldwide, including Toronto, Busan, Loc- ment, Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai from arno, Kerala, Mumbai and Colombo, and 1986 - 2012, where she currently teaches the British Film Institute (BFI). She is also fi lm and photography as a visiting faculty. mentor at script labs and fi lm critics’ labs She also lectures at Xavier’s Institute of worldwide. A senior journalist, she free- Communications, Symbiosis Institute of lances for Variety, Screen International, Mass Communications etc. Most recently, Cahiers du Cinema, Midday and fi rstpo- she has been awarded the Prof. Satish st.com. She has been working in develop- Bahadur Lifetime Achievement Award mental issues since two decades, including Jeroo Mulla to a Film Teacher from South Asia. Meenakshi Shedde gender, water, health and education.

Karan Bali Lourdes Ortega Meleah Moore Namita Roy Ghosh What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? I am a fi lmmaker, I teach Filmmaker, currently directing and I am a freelance photographer and Film director, author, scriptwriter, fi lmmaking and a fi lm reviewer. producing a full length feature fi lmmaker, focusing on social impact advertising communication expert. documentary entitled, The Heart and environmental issues. I am A social activist, she has made Teachings: Life and Journey currently working with Ashoka India pro bono fi lms to promote awareness of Ven. Samu Sunim. and a Nepal-based NGO, The Glacier on issues like child labour, pollution, Karan Bali Meleah Moore Trust. domestic violence and wildlife preservation. She has travelled widely, is an aspiring photographer, a founder member and Trustee of the NGO, Vanashakti, which works in the areas of environmental protection, education and policy change.

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Neil Sadwelkar Nutan Lohiya Radha Dhir Raksha Kumar What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? In digital fi lms, coherent workfl ows Counselling and Therapy for a host Radha Dhir, Managing Director-Head I am a multimedia journalist focusing separate awesome from ordinary of issues such as Trauma, Anxiety, Global Subsidiary Coverage India, on human rights, politics and social work. Resources are used eff ectively Depression and Sexual Abuse. I also Deutsche Bank India. She has been with injustices. In the past six years, I have and money saved and credibility speak at Corporate events on topics Deutsche Bank for the last 20 years. She reported for The New York Times, BBC, kept intact. And people remain such as stress management, work- was the fi rst woman Managing Director Guardian, TIME, South China Morning sane and calm. I do workfl ows. life balance, parenting through the in Deutsche Bank AG India. Currently Post, Scroll and The Hindu. As a reporter, psychological perspective, etc. she heads the multinational subsidiaries my focus areas are land and forest rights Neil Sadwelkar Radha Dhir business for Deutsche Bank India. She of the most vulnerable communities. is a member of the Deutsche Bank India Executive Committee and also sponsors the Women’s Network Initiative. In her spare time, she is involved with various NGOs viz Pavement Club, which takes care of street children, Project Crayons, where she has adopted and looks after 14 girl children, and has fi nanced 15 schools in the tribal areas of Maharashtra. Nutan Lohiya Raksha Kumar

Priyadarshini Krishnaswamy Rada Sesic Rashmi Patil Savita Vij What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? I’m a fi lmmaker from Mumbai, Rada Sesic has worked as a fi lm I am Rashmi Suresh Patil, a special I’m a Creative Coach working on currently working on my second feature critic and a fi lm maker. She has been abled person (hearing impaired). building stronger connections fi l m ,Baaram (The Burden). Gangoobai, in the selection committee of IDFA I am a Bharatnatyam dancer as well as between practitioners in the fi elds my debut feature fi lm, was selected for Amsterdam, in addition to being a an instructor. I have done my advance of self-development and education the NFDC Script Lab in partnership with member of the IDFA Bertha Fund course in Bharatnatyam from the Indian and their outreach storytelling / Priyadarshini Krishnaswamy the Binger Film Lab, Amsterdam, and the selection committee. She is the Rashmi Patil Classical Dance Academy. I perform research. I also am setting up Locarno Film Festival. It was released Program Advisor of IFFR Rotterdam, in many shows and I’m invited as a guest storytelling resources for re-telling in theatres in 2013, followed by a DVD and is on the Hubert Bals Fund dancer in many programs. Along with Indian History. release in two versions, one solo and the selection as well. Her achievements my dance, I have my small online other as an omnibus with Ketan Mehta’s also include her position as the Head business of hand made jewelry Mirch Masala and Mani Kaul’s Duvidha. of the documentary competition at under the name of Rashmi’s Art. Gangoobai is currently streaming on Sarajevo FF and Co-head of the Docu Amazon Prime and Hotstar, as well as Rough Cut Boutique. She teaches at NFDC’s VOD platform, Cinemas of India. the Master of the Dutch Film Academy Amsterdam. She mentors at dozens of documentary workshops in Europe and Rada Sesic Savita Vij Asia, a.o. Baltic Sea Forum, Doc Lisboa, Ex Oriente, Dragon Forum, Balkan DC, DunaDoc, Docedge Kolkata and DocWok New Delhi. 86 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 87 India India

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Seema Mohapatra Shashikumar Velath S o fi a A s h raf Sonu Mishra What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? Seema Mohapatra has 20+ years of Protest musician, feminist social media Sonu Mishra is a costume designer experience in the Media and Entertain- Shashikumar has a career spanning content creator and fi lmmaker. based in Rome. Born and raised in India. ment industry. Seema was heading the two decades where he has relied on She moved to New York where she started South Asian Operation of BBC Advert- his entrepreneurial thought leadership work in the wardrobe department at the ising, BBC Worldwide when she forayed to contribute to changemaking – as an Roundabout Theatre Company on Broad- into her passion for cinema. After award winning investigative journalist, way and at Odds Costume Rentals. She has completing a course in Film Making from confl ict and war correspondent, editor, been designing for movies over the past Seema Mohapatra S o fi a A s h raf the New York Film Academy, she worked strategist on campaigns- decade. She works closely with the director as an AD on the critically acclaimed fi lm, communications-advocacy, team and actors, using colours, textures, fabrics Hawaa Hawaii. In 2014, she joined builder, entrepreneur and analyst on to create a wardrobe for each character. Vidhu Vinod Chopra Films to head security and strategic aff airs. Previously In 2017, she was nominated for an Emmy for marketing for his Hollywood fi lm. Seema he has been a global leadership group her work on Genius period drama limited also played an active role in reviving the member with Ashoka. His leadership series produced by National Geographic Mumbai Film Festival team. In colla- as Amnesty International India’s chief on the life of Albert Einstein, played by boration with Jahanara Bhargava, strategist was a gamechanger in Geoff rey Rush. She has just wrapped work Seema started her own production re-establishing the organization on the new season of Genius based on house, StoryLoft Productions, and has in India. Currently, he is the Chief the life of the painter Pablo Picasso, Shashikumar Velath written and directed her fi rst short fi lm. Operating Offi cer at vClusive Sonu Mishra played by Antonio Banderas.

Shirley Abraham Shivani Manaktala Srila Chatterjee Dr. Subir Rana What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? I am an independent Shivani has over two decades of Srila Chatterjee works at the Subir has a doctorate in Sociology from documentary fi lmmaker. experience leading design, extraordinary intersection of Jawaharlal Nehru University, where his development and implementation advertising, fi lm, design and fashion. thesis focused on a Denotifi ed Nomadic of social sector projects in Asia. She She used to helm Highlight Films, Tribe (DNT), which currently practices specializes in market systems, private which has nurtured many talents, and inter-generational prostitution on the Shirley Abraham sector development and markets for Srila Chatterjee furthered many a successful career in borders of Bihar and Nepal. His work poor. Her sectors of expertise include cinema, fashion, production and set attempts to contextualize the past and agriculture, skills and livelihoods, design, for 25 years. She had curated present of the DNTs within the backdrop energy and housing. She has worked the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in its of the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871. Subir closely with social enterprises, non- early years, co-founded blueFROG, has been a recipient of prestigious profi t organisations, donor agencies, the iconic music space in Mumbai, fellowships like Tata Education and Central and State governments, and and opened the furniture and textile Development Trust Fellow, 2017-18, Sir the private sector. Her experience store, Baro, with Siddharth Sirohi. Charles Wallace Fellow, Belfast, 2011-12, includes an entrepreneurial dairy Ford Foundation Visiting Fellow, JNU, venture. She is presently a freelance 2011-12, Sir Ratan Tata Trust Library consultant based in Mumbai. Visiting Fellow, Jadavpur University, Shivani Manaktala Dr. Subir Rana 2009-10 and UGC Fellowship, 2007-2011. 88 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 89 India India

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Sutapa Sanyal Svati Bhatkal Vijay Benegal Vikas Sivaraman What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? What does your job involve? I am a ‘84 batch IPS offi cer and was Journalist, publisher, instructional Vijay Benegal’s career as an Vikas Sivaraman is a cinematographer the fi rst woman IPS offi cer to serve designer, writer, researcher and independent Sound Engineer has in the fi eld of Advertising, Feature fi lm as Director General (D.G) in U.P. newly-minted director. Co-directed spanned close to three decades with and Documentaries. His association with I conceptualized and led the U.P. and headed fi eld research for experience on diverse sound recording various genres of fi lm have now spanned Police Mahila Samman Prakoshth Satyamev Jayate, a highly credible and mixing projects for radio, fi lms, over three decades and includes many (MSP), an award-winning and widely-watched television television, and music albums. Artists critically and commercial successful ISO 9001:2008 certifi ed police unit, show. Completed a feature length recorded for include Ustad Zakir fi lms. His advertising work covers a wide Sutapa Sanyal Vijay Benegal for protecting and empowering over documentary fi lm in 2018. Hussain, Indus Creed, Shankar spectrum of directors and production 17 crore (170 million) women and Mahadevan, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, houses in India and the South Asia and children in India’s most populous Vishal-Shekhar, Ram Sampath, etc. Middle East regions. Occasionally, Vikas state. Film recording projects have included has also worked on documentaries like Dil Chahta Hai, Lakshya, Armaan, the well known documentary Celluloid Kaante, Don, Don2, Wake Up Sid, Man. He has also won numerous Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, etc. He is also accolades for his photography a LiveSound Engineer having worked including the IIAFAA and Kodak with artists such as Kailash Kher, Indus awards in the years 1993 and 1995. Creed, Slash, Simon Phillips, Bela He is a forerunner in the fi eld of Svati Bhatkal Vikas Sivaraman Fleck, Niladri Kumar, Taufi q Qureshi, underwater cinematography in India, Louiz Banks, Dave Holland, and other exploring the waters world over, luminaries. Vijay is currently touring including the Great Barrier Reef and the Urvashi Devidayal Vasundhara Vee with Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy as well as spectacular Andaman and Lakshadweep Ustad Zakir Hussain’s Cross Currents. islands off the coast of India. He What does your job involve? What does your job involve? has currently been appointed a fi lm Over the last 18 years, Urvashi has lived Vasundhara Vee is a respected advisor to the Govt of Lakshwadeep. and worked in Mumbai, New York, Vocal Artist known for the socially London and Auroville. Her work has aware content that she brings been varied, from working in multi- to every show. Vee experiments billion dollar companies, international mainly with sounds of Jazz, Soul, Urvashi Devidayal NGOs to various start-ups across Blues and RnB. She believes in the sectors. She started her career in the spiritual nature of music, and its fi nancial sector and has gone on to power to bring in social change. work on climate change, human rights, Music, according to her, allows and more specifi cally, women’s rights. people to drop their defenses and While the countries, sectors, and issues warm up to the ideas in her songs. may have varied, she has developed Her current work in progress a unique strength in understanding album called Merkaba’s Album. how systems and behaviours change - working on trailblazing big ideas that have impacted millions of people, Vasundhara Vee and working to institutionalise a new normal in business and society. 90 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 91 India India

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INDEPENDENT AND PUBLIC- Sneha Banerjee INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT Kanchan Mathur SPIRITED MEDIA FOUNDATION Program Manager STUDIES, JAIPUR Professor What does your job involve? Independent and Public-Spirited What does your job involve? Institute of Development Program Manager at Independent and Media Foundation’s Vision Kanchan Mathur, Honorary Professor Studies’ Vision Public-Spirited Media Foundation. In a Independent and Public-Spirited at the Institute of Development Studies, The main objectives of the Institute pan-India role, I monitor and evaluate Media Foundation is a not-for-profi t Jaipur, has 34 years of experience in include contributing to the under- the editorial and business performance media foundation set-up to provide applied research, evaluation and policy standing of the development processes of the fund’s portfolio companies and fi nancial and consulting assistance to analysis in the fi eld of social and rural and problems. It conducts studies make recommendations to the senior organisations creating and distributing develop-ment, especially focusing on on problems of the marginalized leadership team about course correction, public-interest information to the gender issues. A key focus area of her sections and the hinterland. It adopts if required. I am also required to identify public at large using digital media, work has been gender based violence a multi-disciplinary approach in its and do due-diligence on media entities social media, mass media or any in Rajasthan and analyzing its myriad research activities and provides a that can be funded by the Foundation, other media, thereby bringing about facets like sati, community sanctioned forum for diff erent stakeholders to Sneha Banerjee Kanchan Mathur at both, the national and regional levels. proper awareness and improving sex trade, atta-satta, etc. She is the discuss various developmental issues. I work very closely with the senior public understanding of issues. author of Countering Gender Based The Institute encourages pursuing leadership team to create a funding Violence: Initiatives in Collective multidisciplinary research agendas. proposal for presentation to the Board. What is your website? Action (Sage 2004) and has ipsmf.org published extensively in journals of What is your website? national and international repute. idsj.org/the-institute

INNOVAID ADVISORY Nandita Dalal INTERNATIONAL Christian Kirsch SERVICES Head-Advisory Services DELPHIC COUNCIL Founder & Secretary General What does your job involve? Innovaid Advisory Services’ Vision What does your job involve? International Delphic Council’s Vision Nandita has over 25 years experience We are a development sector advisory Johann Christian Bernhard Kirsch The International Delphic Council in the development, corporate and fi rm, working with Philanthropic aspired to establish the Delphic Games organizes The Delphic Games. Just education sectors in India. Her Foundations, Corporate CSR and as a forum that strives for peace and as the Olympic Games bring people speciality areas include strategy and International Aid Agencies.We enable preserves arts and cultural heritage. together across the globe through fundraising, where she has played our clients maximise their social With a strong determination and their enthusiasm for sports, the senior roles at Charities Aid Foundation impact by taking a strategic approach commitment to revive the games, Delphic Games of the modern era and Concern India Foundation. In her to Corporate Social Responsibility he took up the challenge. In the 70s, unite people of all nations and cultures role at Innovaid, she led many HNI and Philanthropy in India. Kirsch started promoting artists and through their fascination for the arts. Foundation Strategies, along with a developed artistic education for the The Delphic Games promote the Fundraising Feasibility and Strategy to What is your website? future generations. Kirsch travelled to dialogue between all cultures and Nandita Dalal Christian Kirsch raise $150 million to tackle TB, HIV/Aids innovaid.in Greece many times to meet leaders off er outstanding representatives of and Malaria in India. In her corporate and strengthen his idea of reviving arts and culture a unique stage for career, she was a Brand Manager at the Delphi Games. He initiated and competing, lecturing, presenting and the United Colours of Benetton and organised the Founding Assembly of for an intercultural exchange of ideas. later became a lecturer at Symbiosis the IDC in 1994 in Berlin. As the Delphic University in Marketing and Branding. Games of the Modern Era, the format What is your website? She brings a very strategic mindset refl ects and honours Greek roots delphic.org and depth of experience to Innovaid. while promoting the Greek cultural heritage on a worldwide scale. 92 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 93 India India

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INTERNATIONAL FILM Bina Paul INTERNATIONAL Jamshed Mistry Vice Chairperson & Independent Counsel FESTIVAL OF KERALA Artistic Director & Founder What does your job involve? International Film Festival LEGAL ALLIANCE What does your job involve? Bina Paul, Vice Chairperson of Inter- of Kerala’s Vision Jamshed Mistry appears as Counsel in are in the process of organising the national Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) is IFFK is a fi lm festival held annually the Supreme Court and in various High International Delphic Games in India an award winning Indian fi lm editor. A in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital Courts all over India. His clients have International Legal Alliance’s Vision graduate from FTII, she started her career city of Kerala, India. This fi lm festival included several corporate companies International Legal Alliance (ILA) is as editor for the ground breaking started in 1996 and is hosted by the as well as public sector corporations and a practice founded in Mumbai, India Malayalam fi lm Amma Ariyan. She has Kerala State Chalachitra Academy on institutions such as the Reserve Bank of having a network of independent legal worked in more than 50 fi lms and won behalf of the Department of Cultural India, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply professionals from all over the world. the National Film Awards for Best Editing Aff airs, Government of Kerala. The and Transport Undertaking, etc. He has ILA has been consistently delivering twice for Mitr, My Friend and Unni. Paul festival is acknowledged as one of had vast experience in dealing with high quality and eff ective represent- has directed four documentaries and the leading cultural events in India. the media and entertainment industry Bina Paul Jamshed Mistry ations and results for our clients. ILA’s served in the juries of many international The festival is perhaps the only one and has been a consultant to several network includes some of India’s most fi lm festivals of Berlin, Locarno, Durban, to have screenings in a prison, a corporate agencies as well as high profi le respected lawyers and attorneys. etc. As of 2017, she serves as the principal juvenile home, and a poor home. individual celebrity clients. Recently, of the L. V. Prasad Film Academy. In May he has been appointed legal advisor to What is your website? 2017, she was appointed as one of the What is your website? the International Delphic Council, who internationallegalalliance.com heads of Women Collective in Cinema. i ff k . i n

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE Harsha Mukherjee INTERNATIONAL PRESS John Yearwood OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY Managing Director INSTITUTE (IPI) Executive Board Chairman AND RESPONSIBILITY What does your job involve? International Institute of What does your job involve? International Press Institute’s Vision Harsha Mukherjee is an entrepreneur Corporate Sustainability and An award-winning multimedia journalist, The International Press Institute is with principles and a philanthropist Responsibility’s Vision John Yearwood is President and CEO of a global network of editors, media with a purpose. Harsha helps industries The best minds in socio-business Yearwood Media Group. He was head of executives and leading journalists. collaborate, discuss and conceive activities across the globe merge International Press Institute’s North We are dedicated to the furtherance progressive strategies to overcome the at the platform of International America National Committee from 2013- and safeguarding of press freedom, challenges and cast a generative impact. Institute of Corporate Sustainability 15 and has been Chair of the IPI Executive the protection of freedom of opinion She is renowned for her inspiring and and Responsibility. It encourages Board since 2015. He is the former World and expression, the promotion educating communication strategies. the mind to research, innovate and Editor of the Miami Herald. Yearwood’s of the free fl ow of news and develop in CSR. The curriculum is department won numerous awards information, and the improvement based by incorporating industry during his leadership, including two of the practices of journalism. Harsha Mukherjee John Yearwood and practitioner’s knowledge. McClatchy Company President’s Awards and the Arthur Ross Award for best What is your website? What is your website? coverage of Latin America. His ipi.media iicsr.com coordination of the Herald’s Haiti earthquake coverage contributed to the newspaper being named a fi nalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News. 94 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 95 India India

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JUSTICE AND CARE Priscilla Roxburgh KAHAANI WALE Aman Kaleem Director Founder and CEO Communications and Training What does your job involve? Justice and Care’s Vision What does your job involve? Kahaani Wale’s Vision Priscilla Roxburgh is Director, Comm- Justice and Care is an anti-human Aman Kaleem is the Founder and CEO of Kahaani Wale is an artist collective based unications and Media at Justice and traffi cking organisation that implements Kahaani Wale. She is a Hubert Humphrey in New Delhi, India. We produce and Care, an anti-human traffi cking organ- multi-disciplinary, eff ective solutions to Fulbright Fellowship’s India nominee, create visual and audio content to tell isation with a pan-India and European tackle human traffi cking for commercial a Young India Fellow and has been stories of change across South Asia. The presence. She started her career as a exploitation and other forms of sexual recognised by the Government of India aim is to push the boundaries of popular journalist in Mumbai and then worked exploitation. We have a vision to see and United Nations as Make a Diff erence culture through storytelling. We tell in the UK for a decade building on her traffi cking become a rarity and to do that Leader, for her work in the South Asian stories to engage, provoke and ultimately communications experience for both the we adopt a multi-disciplinary approach region. She is a faculty at the Vedica inspire to act. Our interest lies in telling education and development sectors. As that encompasses rescue, legal support, Scholars programme and also serves as stories of human resilience in South Asia. part of the founding team at Justice and comprehensive victim care, protection a guest faculty at the media department Priscilla Roxburgh Aman Kaleem Care, Priscilla drives the communications and reintegration. Our end-to-end of Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia What is your website? and media strategy for the organisation, strategy involves a strong collaboration Millia Islamia University. Her latest facebook.com/Kahaaniwale leading best practice initiatives, with the State, the Judiciary and documentary for the Ministry of particularly around how stories of other like-minded organisations. Information and Broadcasting called survivors of traffi cking are sensitively Shaadi, Sex aur Parivaar is currently being handled by the press and fi lmmakers. What is your website? screened in festivals across the world. justiceandcare.org

JUSTICE AND CARE Sayantoni Datta KAILASH PICTURE Kailash Surendranath Director Research COMPANY Owner What does your job involve? What does your job involve? Kailash Picture Company’s Vision Sayantoni Datta is Director Research at Kailash Surendranath has to his credit The Kailash Picture Company has over Justice and Care. She has 17 years work as director and producer, a series of decades become synonymous with experience in the area of environmental inspiring national integration fi lms quality content on television, advertising, and gender justice and child rights. A prior such as The Freedom Torch - Mile Sur music videos, corporate communication, Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Mera Tumhara, Raag Desh, Jhansi Ki documentary digital fi lms and emotional Study, Shimla, she has recently published Rani, and Phir Mile Sur. These fi lms motivational public service messages. a book on indigenous issues in eastern on national integration have made a Founded by eminent fi lm maker, Kailash mainland India titled Damuda: Sacred lasting impact in the minds of Indian Surendranath and producer Aarti Gupta Water: Narratives on Environmental Loss. people and have helped in their own Surendranath, their work spans the globe. She heads the research discipline at way to initiate unity and peace in this Kailash Surendranath Justice and Care, which works on several vast nation of such diversity. These What is your website? interrelated dimensions to traffi cking. Some fi lms directed and produced by Kailash kailashpictureco.com of her published projects include a study have gone on to attain a cult and an with Border Security Forces Academy on anthem status in india. These have been cross border traffi cking titled Adolescence widely viewed on television channels at the Border, and a study supported and have gone viral on the Internet. by British High Commission on garment workers titled, Promoting Gender Equality. 96 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 97 India India

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KALINGA INSTITUTE OF Dr. Varun Suthra KASHISH ARTS Sridhar Rangayan SOCIAL SCIENCES Deputy Director CSR Chairperson What does your job involve? Kalinga Institute of Social FOUNDATION What does your job involve? KASHISH Arts Foundation’s Vision Working for promotional activities Sciences’ Vision Filmmaker & Festival Director KASHISH Arts Foundation is the and resource generation. Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences of KASHISH Mumbai International presenter of KASHISH Mumbai is the world’s largest institution Queer Film Festival (MIQFF). International Queer Film Festival, for tribal children. The educational South Asia’s biggest LGBTQ fi lm opportunities range from festival, held annually in Mumbai Kindergarten to Post Graduation. for the past eight years. The next edition It is completely free and fully will be held between May 23rd- residential, with a strength of 27th 2018 at Liberty Cinema. 27,000 students in the campus. What is your website? Dr. Varun Suthra Sridhar Rangayan What is your website? mumbaiqueerfest.com kiss.ac.in

KARMA FILM INC. Anand Ramayya KHABAR LAHARIYA Disha Mullick Producer Director - Strategy

What does your job involve? Karma Film Inc.’s Vision What does your job involve? Khabar Lahariya’s Vision Anand is a Canadian Film & Television Karma Film is a fi ve time I’m part of the management at Khabar Lahariya is the country’s producer focused on developing, Gemini (Canada’s Emmy) award Khabar Lahariya, an all-women only women-run brand of digital fi nancing and producing fi lmmaker winning prodco focused on rural digital media platform. fi rst rural news. Its mission is to driven content and international fi lmmaker driven stop animation, I work on training, strategy and create a unique voice of local coproductions. We work between documentary, and drama. With sustainability here. journalism, by bringing marginalised Canada and India nurturing a keen its head offi ces in Western women in rural areas into the domain interest in Indian / Asian subject matter. Canada and creative studio of news reporting, to report on rural in Goa, India, Founder Anand issues from their own perspective, Ramayya divides his time between independently and fearlessly. the two countries to facilitate Anand Ramayya Disha Mullick coproduction opportunities What is your website? with like-minded creators. khabarlahariya.org

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KHABAR LAHARIYA Meera Devi LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI Alankrita Singh Chief Reporter Deputy Director, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ADMINISTRATION Under Secretary level What does your job involve? What does your job involve? Meera is the chief reporter at Alankrita is an Indian Police Service CBI Academy, BPRD, National Center Khabar Lahariya, and leads Offi cer of the 2008 batch from Uttar for Good Governance, National Institute special investigations. She is Pradesh Cadre. She served in the state of Broadcasting and Management, based in Banda, Uttar Pradesh. as Superintendent of Police in four IIT Patna, NTPC, Chhattisgarh Police, She also plays a role in diff erent districts. She is passionate Dehradun Police and Delhi Police. recruiting and training women about the subject of Human Rights LBSNAA’s Vision reporters across north India. and particularly the Rights of Women The Lal Bahadur Shastri National and Children. To this end she has been Academy of Administration educating police offi cers, administrative (LBSNAA) is a research and training offi cers, students and citizens. She loves Meera Devi Alankrita Singh institute on public policy and teaching and training and has so far public administration in India. interacted with 1000s of police offi cers from diff erent states in the country and What is your website? administrative offi cers from across the lbsnaa.gov.in country as well as from Bangladesh. Notably, she has delivered lectures at

KUNDAN WELFARE Dr. Rachana Bhartiya LANDESA Anisa Draboo Founder Director, Advocacy ORGANIZATION & Communication What does your job involve? Kundan Welfare What does your job involve? Landesa’s Vision Dr. Rachana Bhartiya is a social activist Organization’s Vision Networking with civil society Landesa is an international non profi t from Ratlam, MP, and the founder of Kundan Welfare Organization is a organisations, media, research and organisation working on secure Kundan Welfare Organization. She is registered organization established academic institutions. Monitoring policy land rights for poor in rural areas in deeply concerned about abandoned, in 2012, founded by Dr. Rachana space on land rights. Elevating the China, India, Sub-Saharan Africa. vulnerable girls, who need protection Bhartiya, which works for Children cause of land rights, communicating and care. She has been running a shelter and Women’s rights in Ratlam, the impact created on ground What is your website? for the rehabilitation of such vulnerable Madhya Pradesh. Kundan Welfare through programme implementation. landesa.org girls, Kundan Kutir where the girls fi nd closely works with the district an environment to fi nd hope again. She administration and the state is the chairperson of the Child Welfare government in their mission to Dr. Rachana Bhartiya Anisa Draboo Committee, member of the District rehabilitate girls. Dr. Bhartiya dreams Dowry Board and the Child Labour of making Kundan Welfare a stronger, Task Force of Ratlam District. She larger and greater organisation, which has been awarded the Lado Abhiyan ensures no girl has to feel threatened. Award by the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh amongst other awards. What is your website? facebook.com/ KundanWelfareOrganization 100 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 101 India India

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LUSH Kate Shippam LXL IDEAS PVT. LTD. Neha Jain Chief Reporter Head, LXL Films

What does your job involve? Lush’s Vision What does your job involve? LXL Ideas Pvt. Ltd.’s Vision Kate Shippam has been the Inter- Lush has been creating innovative I provide creative direction to the LXL Ideas impacts learning and national Grants Specialist for Lush cosmetics using fresh fruits and entire fi lm production process of our creates experiences for students, Cosmetics for over two years on the vegetables, the fi nest essential oils values and life skills progra, School parents and educators. For over Charitable Giving and Ethical cam- and ingredients that are ethically Cinema. I am also the Curator of the two decades, we have brought paigns team. She was once a manager and sustainably sourced for 22 years. International Kids Film Festival. about innovative methodologies and for a campaign to stop a mega dam Lush campaigns on animal protection, unconventional pedagogies to teach from being built on First Nations human rights and environmental life lessons through our brands, School territory in British Columbia. Kate did conservation because it’s the right Cinema, Krayon, Mentor and Teach. her Masters in Environmental thing to do. With over 930 shops Governance at the University of worldwide, Lush is in a unique position What is your website? Kate Shippam Neha Jain Freiburg in Germany and worked for to raise awareness on serious issues lxl.in the German International Development and bring about real change. Agency for 4 years on social and environmental standards in agriculture What is your website? in Germany and the Ivory Coast. lush.com

LUSH Tricia Stevens MAD O WOT Sapna Bhavnani Charitable Giving & Ethical Mad Hatter Campaigns Manager PRODUCTIONS What does your job involve? What does your job involve? awareness of human rights. It also Tricia is the Charitable Giving and Sapna Bhavnani is celebrity hairstylist won the Scotsman Fringe First and the Ethical Campaigns Manager for and a committed feminist. She is also Herald Angel Award for Outstanding Lush North America where her known for her contribution to the New Play. She is currently editing her team focuses on providing grants fi elds of fashion, writing, photography, fi l m ,Sindhustan . to grassroots organizations and entertainment and reality television. indigenous communities working for Her production company called Mad- Mad O Wot Productions’ Vision social and environmental justice and O-Wot Productions started with Project Mad O Wot productions is a small animal protection around the world. Unite that attempted to re-record the independent space built to push She also has a passion for storytelling Indian national anthem with a music boundaries of fi lm through art. and believes that fi lm and media play video featuring common Indian people We are just branching out into the Tricia Stevens Sapna Bhavnani a crucial role in elevating awareness on the streets. Recently she was a part commercial world with a web series and acting as a catalyst for change. of Nirbhaya - the Play, based on the and a talk show is in the works December 16 2012, rape case in Delhi. It along with a documentary. premiered at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in August 2013 and won What is your website? the Amnesty International Freedom vimeo.com/madowotproduction of Expression Award for outstanding Fringe production, which raises 102 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 103 India India

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MADHYA PRADESH Pragya Srivastava MEMESYS Anand Gandhi POLICE ADG, AJK, MP Police CEO, Director What does your job involve? Madhya Pradesh Police’s Vision CULTURE LAB What does your job involve? Memesys Culture Lab’s Vision Pragya Richa Srivastava is an IPS The mission of MP Police is to Anand Gandhi is a fi lmmaker, Memesys Lab is a new media studio offi cer of 1991 Cadre. She is currently preserve the peace, maintain entrepreneur and systems thinker, and a systems thinktank dedicated to the ADG, Anusuchit Janjati Kalyan, MP law and order and enhance the deeply focused in cognitive and crafting high concept, experientially Police. Gender Sensitization and Gender quality of life throughout the state behavioural sciences. Ship of Theseus, rich and high impact projects at the Issues are topics close to her heart and of Madhya Pradesh by working his fi rst feature premiered at TIFF intersection of science, technology and to this eff ect she has been Inspector cooperatively and in partnership 2012 and has since been recognized culture. The studio actively partici- General of Police, Crime Against Women with the public to provide a safe as the most signifi cant fi lm to pates in cinema, pedagogy, technology, and Special Armed Force, Jabalpur environment in the state. come out of India in decades. art, scientifi c and philosophical research Range. For her dedication she has towards actions of signifi cant social been awarded the Indian Police Medal What is your website? impact. Pragya Srivastava Anand Gandhi for Meritorious Services and holds a mppolice.gov.in place in the Limca Book of Records What is your website? for Organizing Longest Human Chain memesyslab.com for Empowerment of Women.

MARVI FILMS Anjali Panjabi MEMESYS Zain Memon Producer & Director CULTURE LAB Co - Founder What does your job involve? Marvi Film’s Vision What does your job involve? As a fi lmmaker, I am involved with Marvi Films has been set up to Zain Memon is a futurist, game thinker diff erent aspects of production, produce narrative, documentary and innovator. He created ElseVR, including development of content and other media, from a South India’s fi rst VR platform. He functions and ideas. Through our company Asian perspective. It is based in as the CTO-COO, playing a pivotal and projects, we collaborate with Mumbai for a domestic as well role in the virtual reality ecosystem like-minded fi lmmakers, cultural as international audience. out of the Indian subcontinent and has organizations and individuals. designed state-of-the-art workfl ows What is your website? and immersive grammatical tools for marvifi lms.in Mixed Reality. Anjali Panjabi Zain Memon 104 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 105 India India

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MISSING Leena Kejriwal NAMATI Manju Menon Founder Program Director

What does your job involve? Missing’s Vision What does your job involve? Namati’s Vision Leena is a photographer and MISSING is a public awareness My work involves training communities Laws and policies should reside not installation artist, founder of MISSING. campaign run under the aegis of who are aff ected by environmental harm only in books and courtrooms but MISSING is a response as an artist the Missing Link Trust that aims to to engage government agencies and within the grasp of every person. to my work in the red light area and sensitize the population to the seek solutions that are meaningful to Namati is building a global movement in the traffi cking belt. I am working plight of millions of girls traffi cked them. This includes adult education on of grassroots legal advocates who to involve the public (the biggest for sexual exploitation. law and investigative research, case put the power of law in the hands of stakeholder in the discussion), and 1. Using art and technology for work, community building and people. Together we are taking on the hope to reinvent how social problems creating lasting social change. government engagement. world’s most urgent justice challenges. are addressed for deeper impact. 2. Generating a dialogue with the public who are key stakeholders in What is your website? Leena Kejriwal Manju Menon the issue of sex-traffi cking as namati.org demand makers but are often overlooked.

What is your website? savemissinggirls.com

MUMBAI ACADEMY Smriti Kiran NARGIS DUTT Priya Dutt OF MOVING IMAGE Creative Director FOUNDATION Trustee What does your job involve? Mumbai Academy of Moving What does your job involve? Developing, defi ning and executing Image’s Vision Priya Dutt is a respected politician and also a trustee at ADAPT (Able Disabled the editorial and logistical design of Mumbai Film Festival is organized under social activist from Mumbai. She has been All People Together), where she has MUMBAI Academy of Moving Image the aegis of Mumbai Academy of Moving the representative to Lok Sabha from been integral for liaising with various and the MUMBAI Film Festival. Image (MAMI), a non-profi t trust. In the Mumbai in 2005 and 2009. Dedicating government agencies about inclusive last nineteen years, MAMI has consistently herself to the greater good, she can be measures to be taken for the diff erently- shaped the cinematic landscape of India. credited with changing the landscape of abled community to live a barrier-free life. We have showcased the best of world Mumbai to a more inclusive space. Daug- Nargis Dutt Foundation’s Vision cinema for Indian audiences and also hter of legendary actors, Sunil Dutt and Nargis Dutt Foundation began in 1981, in steered them toward landmark Indian Nargis, Priya has followed her father’s memory of the legendary actress, Nargis fi lms. Last year we launched the Aca- path into politics. She is also a trustee of Smriti Kiran Priya Dutt Dutt, who passed away because of cancer. demy’s Year Round Program. We now the Nargis Dutt Foundation, which The trust began as an institution focused host weekly screenings, workshops and was started by her father, Sunil Dutt, in on Cancer treatment and diagnosis. It soon conversation sessions for fi lm lovers in memory of her mother Nargis Dutt who evolved into a social organisation, which the country. This has given us a year- succumbed to cancer. The Trust, although also engaged with various social issues long imprint and presence as oppo-sed mainly promoting cancer healthcare, has related to health and education, especially to presence only for a week in the year. also dedicated resources to Education, for those who do not have access to either. Health and Social Awareness, all issues What is your website? that have been dear to Priya, throughout What is your website? mumbaifi lmfestival.com her political tenure. In addition, she is nargisduttfoundation.com 106 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 107 India India

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NATIONAL POLICE Umesh Sharraf ONLY MUCH LOUDER Rasika Tyagi ACADEMY, INDIA Jt. Director Chief Creative Offi cer What does your job involve? (OML) What does your job involve? OML’s Vision Administration, Training of IPS offi cers for the trainers of various police Rasika Tyagi has spent the last twenty OML delivers creative ways of working training institutions in the country; odd years creating and acquiring with artists, creators and brands to create IPS Induction Training Course for content, shaping media brands through incredible television, digital and live enter- National Police Academy, State Police Service Offi cers; and consumer insights and organisational tainment properties. A few of OML’s ini- India’s Vision short specialised thematic Courses, restructuring.She has been telling tiatives are music festivals such as NH7 The National Police Academy (NPA), Seminars and Workshops on meaningful stories as a writer, director Weekender; a diverse culture-driven, trains offi cers of the Indian Police Ser- professional subjects for all levels and producer and has worked with month-long festival Stage42, and TV vice, who have been selected through of police offi cers. Foreign police all the big media organisations projects like the Cannes-award winner The an All India based Civil Services Exam- offi cers and other offi cers belonging including Star TV and Network 18 Dewarists. The Company promoted and ination. Apart from the Basic Training to Army / IAS / IFS / Judiciary, Public across both news and entertainment. produced tours in India for Eddie Izzard, Umesh Sharraf Course for IPS offi cers, the Academy Rasika Tyagi Sector Undertakings, Nationalised David Guetta, Enrique Iglesias, Norah Jones, also conducts Mid Career Training Banks, Insurance Companies etc. also Russell Peters, The Prodigy, Mumford & Programme for offi cers of SP, DIG. and attend various specialized courses. Sons, Lady Gaga, and several others. IG/Addl DG levels of the Indian Police Service; Training of Trainers’ Courses What is your website? What is your website? svpnpa.gov.in oml.in

OMIDYAR NETWORK Nishant Lalwani OUR BETTER WORLD Rebecca Lim Director, Independent Media Head

What does your job involve? Omidyar Network’s Vision What does your job involve? Our Better World’s Vision Nishant Lalwani is a director for Omidyar Network is a philanthropic Rebecca believes in the power of stories We fi nd and tell stories of people doing Omidyar Network’s Governance investment fi rm. We create opportunity and digital media for social impact. She good in Asia to inspire global action. and Citizen Engagement initiative. for people to improve their lives. We leads her team to seek new and better Because we’re convinced each of us has He leads their global strategy for invest in market-based eff orts that ways to fi nd, tell and distribute hopeful the power to make the world better. investing in independent media. catalyze economic and social change. stories of good that will keep engaging people to get involved. An eternal What is your website? What is your website? optimist, she combines her eye for opp- ourbetterworld.org omidyar.com ortunities with her love for people, bringing partners alongside on this journey of pursuing a shared vision. Nishant Lalwani Rebecca Lim A three-year stint in India changed her life and led her to enter the non-profi t space. After a decade of pursuing her passion in tourism and marketing, she now applies her marketing and communications skills to impact lives through digital storytelling. 108 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 109 India India

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PARENTCIRCLE Nalina Ramalakshmi PEOPLE’S ARCHIVE Namita Waikar Founder and Managing Editor Managing Director What does your job involve? ParentCircle’s Vision OF RURAL INDIA What does your job involve? People’s Archive of Rural India’s Vision Nalina is the Founder and MD of ParentCircle is an organisation that I am the Managing Editor, People’s People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), ParentCircle. It is an organization supports the parenting community Archive of Rural India (PARI), publishing an online journal and archive, publishes that aims to bring together parents, through its online social curation stories of the everyday lives of multimedia stories of the everyday lives educators, doctors and other platform and app, print magazines everyday people, and also a partner in of rural Indians and rural migrants to child experts to share information in English and Tamil and parent a chemistry information fi rm in Pune. urban India, and translations of these and ideas on raising happy, engagement programs. We bring stories in about 12 Indian languages. It healthy, successful children. together parents and experts to brings out the skills, arts, crafts and share knowledge and ideas to culture of India. bring out the best in every child. What is your website? Nalina Ramalakshmi Namita Waikar What is your website? ruralindiaonline.org parentcircle.com

PEARL ACADEMY, Sonika Tewari PLATOON ONE FILMS Shiladitya Bora Course Leader and Founder INDIA Assistant Professor What does your job involve? Pearl Academy’s Vision What does your job involve? I am working with Pearl Academy Pearl Academy has completed Shiladitya Bora is the Founder of Platoon Firefl ies in the Abyss, The World Before Her Mumbai for the past two years as a more than two decades of em- One Films, a boutique studio with its core and most recently An Insignifi cant Man. Course Leader and Assistant Professor powering creative minds. Since its focus on production, marketing, distri- Platoon One Films’ Vision in the School of Media. I have taught inception in 1993, the academy has bution and syndication. Earlier, Shila- Platoon One Films is a boutique fi lm Journalism for 5 years now in colleges evolved into a globally renowned ditya served as the founding CEO of studio aimed at providing a class act in like National College Bandra, Harkisan institution of higher learning with Drishyam Films and produced Masaan fi lm production, marketing, distribution Mehta Institute of Media and Research, a focus on Internationalism; (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2015), and syndication. Their fi rst fi lm Yours Truly Mithibai College campus and Don Bosco, entrepreneurship and employability; Dhanak (Berlin 2015) and Newton (Berlin starring Soni Razdan, Pankaj Tripathi, Mumbai. I have worked for more than 5 catering to the needs of the design, 2017), which was India’s offi cial entry Aahana Kumra and Mahesh Bhatt, years as a journalist in channels like Zee fashion, business and retail industry. to Oscars.During his time with PVR Sonika Tewari Shiladitya Bora directed by National Award winner Sanjoy News, Zoom TV, Sahara Samay and have Cinemas, he conceptualized the limited Nag is currently in post-production. covered events like Zee Cine Awards What is your website? release banner PVR Director’s Rare that in Singapore and 26/11 Mumbai Blasts. pearlacademy.com helped indie fi lms reach out to the Indian What is your website? I have worked as an offl ine anchor and audience. Shiladitya has been involved facebook.com/PlatoonOneFilms interviewed almost all the Bollywood in the distribution of many prominent celebrities during my journalism career. documentaries like Supermen of Male- gaon, Gulabi Gang, Fire In The Blood, 110 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 111 India India

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POCKET FILMS Sameer Mody POPULATION FIRST Dr. A.L. Sharada Founder and Director Managing Director What does your job involve? Pocket Films’ Vision What does your job involve? Population First’s Vision India’s largest digital distributor Pocket Films is India’s largest I am the director of Population First Population First, a social impact for short fi lms and documentaries distributor of short fi lms and and therefore responsible for all that organization, established in the year and the No. 1 partner for YouTube documentaries. Our mission happens. I am involved in visualizing 2002 in Mumbai-India, has been in India for such content. is to increase the visibility for and conceptualizing campaigns and steadfastly working for an informed such content while generating projects, content creation and and balanced media portrayal of revenues for the creators. documentation of the same as well as multiple gender issues, through networking. its Laadli initiative. What is your website? www.pocketfi lms.in What is your website? populationfi rst.org Sameer Mody Dr. A.L. Sharada

POINT OF VIEW Roohi Bhatia PVR CINEMAS Deepa Menon Communications Manager Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications & CSR What does your job involve? Point of View’s Vision What does your job involve? PVR Cinemas’ Vision Roohi is the Communications Manager Point of View is a Mumbai-based Deepa is the the founder head of PVR PVR is the largest and most premium at Point of View, and works as a content non-profi t that works on the Nest, the CSR initiative of PVR Ltd., fi lm exhibition company in India. Since marketing consultant with FMCG intersection of gender, sexuality India’s largest fi lm exhibition company. its inception in 1997, the brand has companies and organizations working in and violence. Using the tools of Currently, she manages the Corporate redefi ned the way entertainment is gender and sexuality. Her work includes media, education, technology and Social Responsibility program of PVR to consumed in the country. PVR currently creating and executing thoughtful, art, it amplifi es women’s voices obtain socio-economic sustainability of operates a cinema circuit comprising cross platform digital content strategies and removes barriers to voice, the society through the cinema exhi- of 625 screens at 134 properties in for her clients like Marico Ltd and speech and expression. We create bition platform. Core areas of PVR Nest 51 cities (19 states & UTs), serving 85 Relink Consultancy. She holds a M.Sc. digital resources, publications and are to promote education, healthcare, million patrons annually. While PVR’s in Gender, Media and Culture from campaigns, build skills, capacities nutrition and rehabilitation of children at total screen count has reached over 600 Roohi Bhatia Deepa Menon the London School of Economics, UK. and understanding, produce risks in the urban areas, especially around screens; the premium screen category Her areas of interest include gender, information and knowledge, PVR Cinemas and foster the largest count stands at 36 screens of Gold sexuality, culture, and media. educate communities and fi lm-based education program, where Class, 07 of IMAX, 06 of 4DX, 04 of PXL publics, and advocate with civil we partner with local communities, and 04 of Playhouse across the country. society and policy makers. corporate, government bodies, NGOs and INGOs to build programs to What is your website? What is your website? mitigate the issues and challenges pvrcinemas.com facebook.com/POVMumbai that our communities face. 112 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 113 India India

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QUEST ALLIANCE Narayanan Poomulli RAJASTHAN NAT SAMAJ Suresh Lachiya Media Associate Secretary

What does your job involve? Quest Alliance’s Vision SUDHAR SAMITI What does your job involve? Rajasthan Nat Samaj Sudhar I am a fi lmmaker telling Quest Alliance is a non-profi t trust To work for community upliftment, Samiti ’s Vision stories from the fi eld. working to bridge the education particularly for the poor and vulnerable The Nat community has been stigma- and skills divide by enabling self- section of the society through tised and discriminated by the large learning for young people 10-35 years systematic intervention in the sectors sections of the society for involvement old. Quest is fuelled by research, of Health, Social Development and in the trade of sex work. They are devoid strengthened by partnerships and Women Empowerment. The mission of rights as citizens although claims driven by innovation and technology. is to seek both private and public have been made on the contrary by help in the form of Grant in aid, representatives of the public. Rajasthan What is your website? Subscriptions and Donation. The Nat Samaj Sudhar Samiti organises questalliance.net Institution’s mission is to establish an events to provide knowledge and aware- Narayanan Poomulli Suresh Lachiya exploitation free society, well being ness about diff erent special days and of humans, and social development. mobilises people to strengthen society.

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R. M. RAO R.M. Rao RAKEYSH OMPRAKASH Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra CINEMATOGRAPH PVT. LTD. Founder MEHRA PICTURES Founder What does your job involve? R. M. Rao Cinematograph What does your job involve? Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra In a career spanning four decades, Pvt. Ltd.’s Vision A visionary director of Indian Cinema, Pictures’ Vision R.M. Rao has not only been an eye- Each fi lm!..Each location!.. All Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is the Director, Producer and Writer Rakeysh witness to the history of India’s advert- have their challenges. But, Mr. Rao director of fi lms like Aks, Rang De Omprakash Mehra established Rakeysh ising and documentary fi lm industry, but will not rest till he is satisfi ed that Basant, Dilli 6, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Omprakash Mehra Pictures (ROMP), in has also helped shape it through the lens every frame is worth framing. and Mirzya. Each of his fi lms have been India. ROMP has cultivated an attitude of his motion picture camera. He is a noted for their beautiful visuals and to pioneer a way for the new wave and graduate from the prestigious Film What is your website? thought provoking stories. His next fi lm new age cinema from India, by and Television Institute of India (1964). imdb.com/name/nm1190796 Mere Pyaare Prime Minister, due release identifying talented writers and directors Having worked with major fi lmmakers, he in 2018, advocates against the issue of from India, and telling Indian stories demonstrated his fl air for innovation and open defecation and sanitation to the world. R. M. Rao Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra mastery for technique in a simple manner, problems in India. He is no stranger to which was to become the Rao hallmark in documentary fi lms. In 2011 his docu- What is your website? a career spreading over 4,000 advert- mentary fi lm Bollywood: The Greatest romppictures.in ising fi lms, about 200 documentaries and Love Story (which was co-directed by 7 feature fi lms. Rao continues to shoot Jeff ery Zimbalist) was an offi cial around the world and show remarkable selection at the Cannes 2011 to energy and enthusiasm for the medium, celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema. which he confesses, is his fi rst love. 114 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 115 India India

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RANIMA FILMS Shibani Ghosh RUNAWAY LUMINOSITY Rahul Merchant Producer Managing Partner

What does your job involve? Ranima Films’ Vision DISTRIBUTION LLP What does your job involve? Runaway Luminosity Shibani makes socially Ranima Films is a proprietary concern. Rahul is the Managing Partner Of Distribution LLP ’s Vision relevant documentaries. We work in the area of making Runaway Luminosity Distribution, Runaway-Luminosity Distribution socially relevant documentaries. We which deals with the Marketing specializes in Marketing & Distribution are a small organization and mostly and Distribution of Independent of high quality Independent Feature work on commissioned projects Films, Documentaries, Hollywood Films, Hollywood Films, Documentaries Films and Alternative Content. and Alternative Content, in India What is your website? and globally. ranimaafi lms.com What is your website? runaway-luminosity.com Shibani Ghosh Rahul Merchant

READ INDIA Geeta Malhotra SAHYOG Rama Sarode Country Director Secretary

What does your job involve? READ India’s Vision What does your job involve? Sahyog’s Vision Geeta has been working with READ READ (Rural Education and Development) I am a lawyer and trainer and work on Sahyog, through its legal intervention India since 2008 and has helped Global believes that empowering rural human rights issues, especially women wing, Human Rights and Law Defenders bring 42 READ Centers (Community communities is critical to alleviating global rights and child rights. I am Secretary (HRLD), works on socio-legal issues in Library and Resource Centers) to life poverty. They establish community library of Sahyog that works to provide legal Maharashtra. We provide legal assistance in 12 states of this expansive country and resource centers (READ Centers) by assistance to people who cannot aff ord to people who cannot aff ord lawyers, reaching to approximately 400,000 partnering with rural communities in to appoint lawyers. I am also associated do awareness programmes on eff ective rural communities for Educational South Asia, where a majority of women as Director with MyGrowthZone Edutech implementation of law and conduct Enterprise and Development. During are illiterate, and most families live below Pvt Ltd (MGZ) that works to develop internships. the past three years, she trained the poverty line. All of our READ Centers video based training modules. 5100 Women on enterprise skills with are owned and operated by the local What is your website? Geeta Malhotra Rama Sarode confi dence building and personality community. Each Center has a library, sahyogtrust.in development. Geeta constantly works computer room, women’s section, on networking for partnerships, and children’s room, and training hall along fund raising, apart from outreach with a series of programmes and activities activities to bring the best training for empowering rural communities. and capacity-building programs to READ Centers while overseeing What is your website? all operations in India. readindia.ngo 116 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 117 India India

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SAMHITA SOCIAL Anmol Shrivastava SAROJ SCREENS Akshaye Rathi Executive Assistant to Founder VENTURES the Chief Executive Offi cer What does your job involve? Samhita Social Ventures’ Vision PVT. LTD. What does your job involve? Saroj Screens Pvt. Ltd.’s Vision I am the Executive Assistant to the CEO Samhita Social Ventures is a leading Akshaye Rathi is a fi lm exhibitor and Saroj Screens Pvt. Ltd. is a fi lm at Samhita Social Ventures. As EA to CSR consultancy that collaborates distributor with operations spread exhibition and distribution company the CEO, I drive various portfolios - with companies to develop impactful across the central Indian states of that has been operational in the central partnerships, social innovation, business corporate social responsibility (CSR) Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Indian region for over 50 years. With a strategy, social strategy and culture initiatives across causes including Chhattisgarh. While carrying forward chain of single screen cinemas under development. I parallely lead Samhita’s healthcare, water and sanitation, a 70 years old legacy in the show its belt, the company works constantly largest social innovation and multi- education, energy access, skills and business, Akshaye has been a pioneer towards making great cinematic content stakeholder project - the Swachh livelihoods. Some of its clients include in the process of consolidation of the reach the widest audience base possible Maharashtra Grand Challenge. The L&T, Godrej, DHL, Morgan Stanley, fi lm exhibition sector by orchestrating at the most aff ordable cost. Grand Challenge is a pan-India open Hindustan Unilever, Tata Power, Sun a fi rst of its kind alliance between Anmol Shrivastava Akshaye Rathi innovation platform supported by Pharma, Reckitt Benckiser, Piramal single screen cinemas of his chain What is your website? multiple and marquee stakeholders. Group, Viacom18 and more. with Cinepolis, one of the largest twitter.com/akshayerathi The project will identify, pilot and scale exhibition chains in the world, that innovations across the sanitation value What is your website? operates from Mexico. chain in one district of Maharashtra. samhita.org

SAMHITA SOCIAL Priya Naik SHEMAROO Kranti Gada Founder & Senior Vice President VENTURES Joint Managing Director ENTERTAINMENT LTD. What does your job involve? What does your job involve? the forefront of the Indian Media and Priya Naik is the Founder and CEO Kranti Gada is the Senior Vice President Entertainment Industry, creating path- of Samhita Social Ventures, a CSR at Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd. She has breaking innovations and disruptive consulting fi rm that collaborates with strong professional skills in Strategy, business models.Shemaroo’s strengths lie companies, social organizations, govern- Entrepreneurship, setting up and in its fi rm leadership, progressive culture ment and foundations to co-create operationalizing new businesses. She and the diversity of its content across innovative solutions for maximizing social was the one to set up Shemaroo’s Movies, Music, Devotional, Kids, Lifestyle, impact across causes. Priya’s journey in mobile business in 2006 and their DTH Health and Fitness, and Regional genres. the social sector began as a Researcher business in 2015. Kranti’s understanding With a core team of over 600 media at the Poverty Action Lab at Massachu- of the digital future for content also professionals, our ability to conceptualize, setts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, enabled Shemaroo to become one Priya Naik Kranti Gada produce, acquire and disseminate quality where she was part of two award of the early adopters of Youtube for entertainment content has helped winning student startups. Her career monetization of its content and launched make Shemaroo one of the largest is a fusion of on-ground grassroots successful online propositions, like content aggregators, producers, and solutions through enterprise and Filmi Gaane and Shemaroo Movies. distributors on digital and traditional strategic consulting experience with Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd.’s Vision platforms in India and across the globe. established companies. She has also Over the last 55 years, in an ever- worked closely with Girl Rising to changing media landscape, Shemaroo What is your website? strategize their focus and work in India. Entertainment Limited, has been at shemarooent.com 118 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 119 India India

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SHEMAROO Rahul Mishra SUKALYAN WELFARE Indraneel Karmakar ENTERTAINMENT LTD. General Manager Marketing Partnerships Manager What does your job involve? SOCIETY What does your job involve? Sukalyan Welfare Society’s Vision Rahul Mishra is an experienced I look after Corporate Partnerships Our Mission is to play the role of a marketing professional with over 14 and Communications in facilitator for the benefi t of the public years of experience and a demonstrated Sukalyan Welfare Society without distinction of caste or history of helping brands excel in community, sector, religion, class or the Media and Entertainment sector. creed, in the fi elds of community Prior to Shemaroo, Rahul has had health, education and promotion successful stints with BBC Global News of social and economic welfare where was he the Marketing Manager and upliftment of the community APAC for 8 years and led marketing in general. for IndiaCast (a Viacom18 and TV18 Rahul Mishra Indraneel Karmakar venture). He is an expert in marketing What is your website? management, channel launches, digital sukalyanindia.org strategy, and partnerships. Rahul is an alumnus of INSEAD and IMI.

SPEAKERS’ RESEARCH Rahul Dev SWAYAM SHIKSHAN Upmanyu Patil INITIATIAVE Honorary Advisor PRAYOG Director-Program What does your job involve? Speakers’ Research Initiatiave’s Vision What does your job involve? Swayam Shikshan Prayog’s Vision Rahul Dev is the Honorary Advisor with SRI is a part of the Lok Sabha. It was Upmanyu Patil has been working with Over 20 years, Swayam Shikshan Speaker’s Research Initiative, Parliament set up by the Hon’ble Speaker of Lok Swayam Shikshan Prayog since 1994 Prayog (SSP) has fulfi lled its mission of India. He is an eminent journalist Sabha, Shrimati Sumitra Mahajan in and he is a trained civil engineer with to enable sustainable community and language activist. He has been the 2015. It is a platform for knowledge- a management background. He is development by empowering Managing Trustee of Samyak Foundation sharing with and for the Members of responsible for the organization’s grassroots women on one hand and since 1990. He has over four decades Parliament on major national issues strategic planning, operations, corpo- on the other, off ering livelihoods and of experience in print and television. He that come before Parliament. This is rate partnerships, training, and business health enhancing opportunities in had been the Editor of Hindi dailies like done through workshops and special development. His experience includes rural poor communities. SSP works in Jansatta and Aaj Samaj, in television conferences. Twenty four workshops strengthening large scale interventions disaster and climate threatened regions news, as the head of Aaj Tak, Advisor of have been organized so far. that involve community institutions and Rahul Dev Upmanyu Patil to empower poor rural women as Zee News, Editor-in-Chief CNEB news PRIs in water, environmental sanitation, leaders and entrepreneurs, to promote channel and prime time anchor of DD What is your website? energy and rural development. He has sustainable community development. News. He also works on developmental, sri.nic.in been associated with state and district public health and media issues with technical assistance plans and interven- What is your website? national and multi-lateral organisations. tions that call for designing frameworks sspindia.org and institutional arrangements for com- munity participation, PRI involvement in services delivery and infrastructure. 120 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 121 India India

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TALKING HEADS Baylon Fonseca TAVARES Dr. Rebecca Tavares Sound Recordist / President Sound Designer What does your job involve? Talking Heads’ Vision ASSOCIATES What does your job involve? Baylon Fonseca is a sound recordist / Talking Heads is a sound post Rebecca is President of Tavares Museum, the San Diego Foundation sound desginer / supervising sound production outfi t that is committed Associates, an international consulting and many such organizations. editor. He works on feature fi lms, to production mix (location sound fi rm. Dr. Tavares concentrates her prac- Tavares Associates’ Vision documentaries and short fi lms. Along recording) and sound design of tice in the fi eld of Women, Peace and Our Mission is to play the role of a the way, he has picked up numerous feature fi lms, documentaries, ad Security. She has served UN Women in facilitator for the benefi t of the public awards for his work, notably two fi lms and short fi lms. We are happy Latin America and South Asia from 2009 without distinction of caste or National Awards. When he is not working to streamline your sound post to 2017. She was Representative of UN community, sector, religion, class or on fi lm he spends his time teaching workfl ow and ease the pain. Women’s Multi-Country Offi ce for India, creed, in the fi elds of community and has an equal number of years of Bhutan, the Maldives and Sri Lanka (2013 health, education and promotion experience as an educator. Documentary What is your website? -2017), and Representative, for UN Wom- Baylon Fonseca Dr. Rebecca Tavares of social and economic welfare fi lms excite him immensely and he is thesoundarchitect.com en’s Afghanistan Country Offi ce (2017). and upliftment of the community constantly looking forward to a ‘sound’ A life-long advocate for economic, in general. collaboration with documentary fi lm gender and racial equity, her career in makers. He is a reclusive adventurer, philanthropy and social justice spans the What is your website? long distance cyclist and runner. Ford Foundation, ACCION International, linkedin.com/in/rebecca-reichmann- the New Americans Immigration tavares-ed-d-5318285

TATA CONSULTANCY Mehul Kothare THE FORD FOUNDATION Cara Mertes Corp. Lead - Associate Engagement Director, JustFilms SERVICES LTD. (TCS) & Corporate Sustainability What does your job involve? Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.’s Vision What does your job involve? The Ford Foundation’s Vision Currently heading TCS-Maitree, TCS is is an Indian multinational Cara Mertes is part of the Creativity and Created with gifts and bequests a core central HR function within information technology (IT) service, Free Expression team, as director of Just- by Edsel and Henry Ford, the Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., consulting and business solutions Films, the foundation’s creative visual foundation is an independent, responsibilities include viz; to lead, company, off ering consulting-led, storytelling initiative. JustFilms works non-profi t, non-governmental direct and facilitate all activities integrated portfolio of IT & IT-enabled globally to support artist-led fi lms and organisation and is entirely related to Employee Engagement services delivered across all major new media projects, strengthen organiz- separate from the Ford Motor and Volunteering at workplace geographies. They partner with their ations and networks for independent and Company. The Foundation’s (for Internal Community - TCSers clients to simplify, strengthen and artist-driven content, and develop new goals are to: strengthen democratic and their family members), for the transform their businesses. TCS is leadership and resources in this fi eld. values, reduce poverty and injustice, external community (underprivileged now placed among the most valuable Throughout her career as a nonprofi t Mehul Kothare Cara Mertes promote international co-operation /diff erently abled communities) and IT services brands worldwide executive, award-winning executive and advance human achievement. for environment sustainability. producer and producer/director, broad- What is your website? cast programmer, curator, teacher, and What is your website? tcs.com writer, Cara has championed the leader- fordfoundation.org ship role of artists in society and worked to harness the power of independent fi lm and new media —with an emphasis on nonfi ction storytelling— to amplify aware- ness and accelerate progressive change. 122 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 123 India India

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THE FORD FOUNDATION Pradeep Nair THE SHILLONG TIMES Patricia Mukhim Regional Director, Delhi Editor Branch offi ce India What does your job involve? What does your job involve? The Shillong Times’ Vision Pradeep Nair is the regional director working in the Silicon Valley, going on I edit an English language daily The Shillong Times is an Indian with Ford Foundation, based out of to work on President Clinton’s Climate newspaper - The Shillong Times which newspaper published by Shillong India, and responsible for their work in Initiative, C40 network with Michael is also the most widely circulated Times Pvt. Limited. It is North-East the region. With more than 65 years of Bloomberg, and ex-federal reserve newspaper in the north-east. I write India’s oldest English-language daily. history in the region, as one the oldest chairman, Paul Volcker’s new initiative. weekly/fortnightly columns for The It is a liberal and free-thinking US foundations in the country and with Telegraph, The Statesman and The newspaper that addresses issues of hundreds of grants over the decades, Assam Tribune. I also deliver talks culture, politics, economics, health, Ford Foundation continues to play an and present papers at diff erent fora. education and more. important role in social sector growth in the region.Pradeep has more than 20 What is your website? Pradeep Nair Patricia Mukhim years of private and non-profi t theshillongtimes.com experience, working primarily in the US and India, with a brief stint in Europe. He has engineering and management degrees, and started his career in the strategy and technology space,

THE PRAHLAD KAKAR Prahlad Kakar THOMSON REUTERS Simit Bhagat SCHOOL OF BRANDING & ENTREPRENEURSHIP Founder FOUNDATION Asia Programme Offi cer What does your job involve? The Prahlad Kakar School of Branding What does your job involve? Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Vision Prahlad Kakar is an innovative and Entrepreneurship’s Vision I am a journalist-turned-development Thomson Reuters Foundation, the corporate, Ad guru, Branding Strategist, The Prahlad Kakar School of Branding practitioner and presently working charitable arm of the world’s leading Chief mentor, and Board member of and Entrepreneurship is India’s fi rst as Asia Programme Offi cer for provider of news and information, many companies, who is involved in radical college, a one-of-its-kind Thomson Reuters Foundation. is committed to empowering people providing innovative 360 degree institute, which inculcates an in need around the world with trusted solutions consulting with Companies extraordinary concept of education information and free legal assistance. and brand building various products that goes by the tagline, Beyond The Foundation leverages the and services. He has been a part of Fear. This school of business is aimed skills, values and expertise across many Creative Workshops, Motivational at all those young dreamers who Thomson Reuters to promote the and Leadership interactive sessions wanted to follow a dream but were rule of law, save lives in disasters and Prahlad Kakar Simit Bhagat for students, middle management and too scared to even articulate them. improve standards of journalism. top management executives, providing marketing solutions and focusing on What is your website? What is your website? the company’s growth story. He has pksbe.com trust.org also worked with SMEs, government agencies and individuals, to deal with current issues and future challenges. 124 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 125 India India

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THOUGHTWORKS Devangana Khokhar TRAVELLING LIGHT Celine Loop Senior Data Scientist Producer

What does your job involve? ThoughtWorks’ Vision What does your job involve? Travelling Light’s Vision In my day job, I work as a Senior A community of passionate Celine Loop is a producer with Travelling Travelling Light is a fi lm production Data Scientist and Strategist individuals whose purpose is Light. She graduated as a lawyer with house based in Kolkata, Mumbai and at ThoughtWorks, where I help to revolutionize software design, a specialization in Intellectual Property Brussels. Our focus is on facilitation, businesses empower them-selves with creation and delivery, while Rights law in Belgium and came to and to help people make fi lms. We intelligence and envision pathways advocating for positive social India as a backpacker in 2008. Celine have two wings, one which produces, for intelligent product development. change. Our mission is to better somehow found herself at the forefront co-produces and/or develops feature In my personal capacity, I lead the humanity through software and of a wave of independent Indian cinema. fi lms where we are involved at an India chapter of a non-profi t called help drive the creation of a She had been a partner and producer at early stage. The second wing is an DataKind wherein I help non-profi ts socially and economically Oddjoint for six years before venturing experienced and talented team, which understand the power of data that just world. out with Travelling Light, and has a overlooks line productions of inter- Devangana Khokhar Celine Loop they collect and build data literacy. I fi lmography that stretches to 8 fi lms. national and home-grown feature fi lms, also work actively in the development What is your website? Her fi lms have shown at festivals short fi lms, TV series and commercials. and humanitarian space, looking at thoughtworks.com all across the world including the various aspects of humanitarian data Berlinale, Sundance, Rome and Sitges. What is your website? and how it can help humanitarian travellinglight.in workers being effi cient in their work.

TIGER STANDARD/ Lygia Mathews TRINAYANI Ritika Sahni INHERITANCE INDIA Co - Founder Founder - Trustee What does your job involve? Tiger Standard / Inheritance What does your job involve? I am a fi lmmaker and also an environ- India’s Vision A Gold Medalist with a Masters in therapists who work at the spa. Ritika mental entrepreneur. I have worked A private initiative set up by a Music and a Bachelor’s Degree in Deaf combines her passion for performing in all genres of fi lmmaking, and have group of multi-disciplinary Education, Ritika chose to dedicate her arts and her music skills by leading a received international recognition professionals to develop economic life to the cause of disability awareness popular music band named Pehli Baarish. including National Awards for my models for sustainability of the to achieve Inclusion of Persons with documentary fi lm work. Alongside, environment, conserve nature Disabilities. Ritika has been teaching, Trinayani’s Vision I have been actively engaged for and biodiversity, and facilitate low giving lectures and conducting Trinayani, for the past decade has been 15+ years in ecological resource carbon processes so that the impact workshops at various reputed working towards creating awareness conservation, reforestation and of man-made climate change may educational institutions, businesses, about disability and diversity issues development of sustainable models be both mitigated and reversed. Government and National level clubs / Lygia Mathews Ritika Sahni among public at large and empowering through carbon off sets like the Tiger associations in collaboration with persons with disabilities through Standard. I am attempting to sensitize What is your website? relevant NGOs. Ritika founded the engaging them in meaningful initiatives. industry, including the fi lm industry, inheritanceindia.co.in non-profi t organisation, Trinayani in Our core objective is to make a diff erence towards integrating low carbon footprint 2006, with a mission to include, honour in the lives of people with disabilities. protocols within the production process and empower persons with disabilities. so that their degradation of natural Trinayani runs an Acupressure / What is your website? resources is either off set or neutralised, Refl exology Spa named Sparsh Foot trinayani.org and they become partners in the global Spa employing trained blind refl exology 126 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 127 India India

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TULSEA Datta Dave UMMEED Dr. Koyeli Sengupta Founder Director- Autism Intervention Services What does your job involve? What does your job involve? Ummeed’s Vision I am a partner at Tulsea, which is a across platforms - ranging from Dr. Koyeli Sengupta is a developmental Ummeed is a non-profi t organization strategic media and content motion pictures, television, digital pediatrician with a post-graduate degree providing family-centered care to management company that represents media, and publishing. Importantly, in Pediatric Medicine and Clinical Psych- children with developmental disabilities India’s leading writers, directors, Tulsea allocates a signifi cant amount ology. She is the Director of Autism and their families. Ummeed’s cross- producers, and production companies. of its resources to identifying Intervention Services at Ummeed, a not functional team of professionals provide Tulsea also represents India’s best emerging fi lmmaking talent that will for profi t organization in Mumbai that evidence-based care to these children regional fi lm-making talent. be tomorrow’s premier storytellers. promotes child development and works and their families, based on their needs. With the aim of strengthening the with children with disabilities. Having Besides running the clinic at Lower Tulsea’s Vision broader ecosystem, Tulsea also creates trained and worked both in India and Parel, Mumbai, Ummeed also delivers Tulsea is a strategic media and content strategic partnerships with pioneering USA, she fi rmly believes that empowered training and is involved in community Datta Dave Dr. Koyeli Sengupta management company that represents companies at the nexus of media, parents can truly make a diff erence. and advocacy initiatives in the India’s leading writers, directors, entertainment, and technology. As director, she has developed and developmental disabilities space. producers, and production companies as expanded Ummeed’s Autism services well as select actors, cinematographers, What is your website? into a broad range of state-of-the-art, What is your website? and composers. Tulsea’s clients work tulseapictures.com evidence-based clinical practices for ummeed.org children with autism and their families.

U.S. CONSULATE Victoria Sloan UMMEED Shernaz Tyebjee GENERAL, MUMBAI Public Aff airs Offi cer Head of Communications What does your job involve? US. Consulate General’s Vision What does your job involve? Victoria Sloan is the Public The U.S. Consulate General in Shernaz Tyebjee works at Ummeed Child Aff airs Offi cer at the U.S. Mumbai off ers an array of services Development Center. With a background Consulate General, Mumbai. to fi ve states of Western India like in writing, editing and art history, Shernaz immigrant and nonimmigrant visas; has worked in the not-for-profi t-sector information on higher education for more than 15 years but has been opportunities as well as U.S. mostly associated with art and culture Government exchange programs projects and organizations. Recently, she and a variety public programs has made the switch to developmental on U.S. culture and society. disabilities and hopes to broaden her own understanding of children with disabilities Victoria Sloan Shernaz Tyebjee What is your website? as well as work on expanding the scope of in.usembassy.gov/ communications, dissemination, awareness embassy-consulates/mumbai building and advocacy at Ummeed. 128 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 129 India India

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UN WOMEN Dr. Jean D’Cunha UNICEF Antara Ganguli Global Migration Advisor Gender and Development Specialist What does your job involve? UN Womens’ Vision What does your job involve? Dr. Jean D’Cunha, Head UN Women, UN Women, among other issues, Antara Ganguli is the Gender Specialist Myanmar, is on special assignment with works for the elimination of at UNICEF India where she leads the UN WomenIndia. She was the former discrimination against women and integration of gender equality consider- Regional Director, UNIFEM East / South- girls; empowerment of women; and ations across UNICEF’s national east Asia, Bangkok and former Global achievement of equality between portfolio of health, nutrition, education, and Regional Advisor UNIFEM Asia and women and men as partners and rights protection and Water, Sanitation Arab States Migration Program that benefi ciaries of development, and Hygiene (WASH) in sixteen states received the AGFUND Award for pioneer- human rights, humanitarian around the country. Previously, she ing development projects.She holds a action and peace and security. was the Deputy Representative for Ph.D in Sociology. Her areas of inter- UN Women in Bangladesh where she Dr. Jean D’Cunha Antara Ganguli nationally recognized expertise include What is your website? led a portfolio focused on women’s ending violence against Women, gender unwomen.org economic empowerment and ending and labor migration, traffi cking, disasters, violence against women and girls. and peace. Dr. D’Cunha received a National Award for ‘Outstanding Wri- ting on Women’s Issues’, in India in 1986.

UNICEF Dr. Yasmin Haque UNICEF Rajeshwari Chandrasekar Country Representative Community for Development (C4D) Specialist What does your job involve? What does your job involve? Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque is the UNICEF Dr. Haque fi rst joined UNICEF in Advocating for all children’s rights Representative in India. Prior to this, she Bangladesh in 1996 as Project everywhere. To do this, I need to was the Deputy Director of UNICEF’s Offi cer for Health and Nutrition. bring the evidence from studies, Offi ce of Emergency Operations where research and share the fi ndings UNICEF’s Vision she played a lead role in the program- with the policy makers in the UNICEF is a leading humanitarian ming and policies for an eff ective Government. and development agency working UNICEF response for children in human- globally for the rights of every child. itarian crisis. She served as the fi rst We believe in a world in which every UNICEF Representative in South Sudan child has a fair chance in life, ranging 2010 to 2013, and from 2007 to 2010 she Dr. Yasmin Haque from distributing lifesaving aid to Rajeshwari Chandrasekar led the UNICEF Ghana offi ce. As Deputy children in the aftermath of War Representative in Sri Lanka 2004-2007, to fi ghting Ebola, UNICEF has been she was responsible for guiding and working for children for almost coordinating the UNICEF programme 70 years. of support as well as the emergency response to the 2004 Asian tsunami. What is your website? unicef.org 130 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 131 India India

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URJA TRUST Deepali Vandana VIACOM18 Monika Shergill Founder and Executive Vice President Managing Trustee & Head of Content What does your job involve? Urja Trust’s Vision What does your job involve? Viacom18’s Vision I am the Co- founder and Managing We are a grassroot non profi t orga- A seasoned media professional with Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is one of Trustee of Urja Trust, overseeing and nisation, which supports homeless around two decades of experience India’s fastest growing entertainment directing the over all functioning of young women between the ages of as a Journalist, Producer and Network networks and a house of iconic brands the organisation. I supervise the day 18 - 32 years. Urja started operations in Executive, Monika took the plunge that off ers multi-platform, multi- to day running of the programme, 2012 in response to the gaps in systemic from traditional media in September generational and multicultural brand resource mobilise and network to further and civil society support for homeless 2015 to join Viacom18 Digital experiences. A joint venture of TV18, strengthen our projects. I also see to the young women, with the aim to enable Ventures. She was brought on board which owns 51%, and Viacom Inc., smooth functioning at administrative, these young women to lead a life of as a key member of the start-up team with a 49% stake, Viacom18 defi nes management and policy levels . dignity and rights. Our mission is to tasked to set up Viacom18’s Video entertainment in India by touching the act as catalysts for homeless young on Demand Service, VOOT. lives of people through its properties Deepali Vandana Monika Shergill women by supporting their basic needs on air, online, on ground, in shop and and building an exemplary, replicable through cinema. model that provides opportunities for their economic, psychological, What is your website? emotional, civil and social development. viacom18.com

What is your website? urjatrust.org USAID Mark White VICE Samira Kanwar Mission Director Head of Video

What does your job involve? USAID’s Vision What does your job involve? Mark Anthony White, a career member The United States Agency for Inter- Samira is the Head of Video of the Senior Foreign Service with the national Development (USAID) works for VICE India. rank of Minister Counselor, was sworn to end extreme poverty and promote in as USAID/India Mission Director on resilient, democratic societies. USAID VICE’s Vision February 24, 2017. A former United is an independent government agency VICE is the world’s leading youth media creative services agencies; and a States Peace Corps volunteer, Mark that provides economic, development, brand. Launched in 1994, VICE now newly launched international television White began his career with USAID and humanitarian assistance around operates in over thirty countries and network, VICELAND, which has already in 1995 and has worked in over 30 the world in support of the foreign distributes its programming and content received two Emmy nominations. countries across four continents. policy goals of the United States. to viewers across mobile, digital, and Leveraging India’s growing fi nancial and linear platforms. Through partnerships What is your website? Mark White Samira Kanwar human resources, USAID is harnessing with leading media, tech and telecom vice.com the strengths and capabilities of both companies, VICE will expand to bring countries to tackle development chall- its content to over eighty territories enges not only in India, but worldwide. worldwide by the end of 2017. VICE includes an expanding international What is your website? network of digital channels; a television usaid.gov/india and feature fi lm production studio; a magazine; a record label; in-house 132 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 133 India India

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VISTA INDIA Suri Gopalan VKAAO ENTERTAINMENT Vaibhav Lal DIGITAL MEDIA Founder Co- Founder What does your job involve? Vista India Digital Media’s Vision PVT. LTD. What does your job involve? Suri is the founder member of Vista India Vista India Digital Media provides I am one of the Heads of Vkaao.com. and comes with over 30 years of media supply chain solutions, licensing and We are a crowdsourced movie viewing distribution experience. Suri has played aggregation services to Indian fi lm platform. Filmmakers can list their an active part in the Indian fi lm industry and content producers. We work movies with us and it can be screened at and was instrumental in the physical with large digital platforms like Apple any PVR Cinemas property across India. sales of Indian compact discs and video iTunes, Netfl ix, and others in an in the United States, through Raaga end to end solution for distribution Music Superstores, his entrepreneurial and windowing of content. venture. Suri also produced the fi rst show of multi- platinum Indian musician, What is your website? Suri Gopalan Vaibhav Lal A.R. Rahman, in conjunction with vistaindia.com Rapport Entertainment of Mumbai. The show was a huge success and was seen by over 50,000 people at the Shrine auditorium in Los Angeles and the Cow Palace in San Francisco.

VKAAO ENTERTAINMENT Karan Ahuja WHISTLING WOODS Chaitanya Chinchlikar Co-Founder/CEO Vice President - Business PVT. LTD. INTERNATIONAL Development What does your job involve? VKAAO Entertainment What does your job involve? Whistling Woods International’s Vision Karan is heading a Theatre on Demand Pvt. Ltd.’s Vision Chaitanya Chinchlikar is the Vice Whistling Woods International is a Initiative called VKAAO, a Joint Venture VKAAO is a fi rst of it’s kind President of Mukta Arts Ltd & Whistling world-class fi lm school. Rated as one of between PVR and Book My Show. theatre on demand initiative, Woods International. His professional the ten best fi lm schools in the world, which allows users to watch expertise is in Education, the Media it off ers comprehensive and intensive any movie of their choice at any and Entertainment industry (Film, TV, education in the creative, technical and theatre of their preference. It is Animation, Digital Media), Business business aspects of Film, TV, Animation, a joint venture initiative between Development, and Marketing. He is Fashion and other Media Arts. PVR and BMS, two of the responsible for new business initiatives leading brands in the Indian at Whistling Woods International - What is your website? entertainment industry. Asia’s largest Film, TV, Animation and whistlingwoods.net Karan Ahuja Chaitanya Chinchlikar Media Arts Institute. He looks after What is your website? growth in existing courses, new courses vkaao.com and new campuses, in addition to working towards creating institutional partnerships and affi liations. 134 Participants Good Pitch Good Pitch 135 India India

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WHISTLING WOODS Meghna Ghai-Puri WISHBERRY Anshulika Dubey INTERNATIONAL President Co - Founder What does your job involve? What does your job involve? Wishberry’s Vision Armed with an Advanced Diploma in Anshulika is the Co-founder and COO at Wishberry.in is India’s fi rst and the most Communications, Advertising & Marketing Wishberry.in, India’s fi rst and the most successful crowdfunding platform for and a B.Sc. Honours Degree in Business successful crowd funding platform for creative projects. Over 400 projects Management from King’s College, London, creative projects. Her professional jour- spanning Films / TV / Video, Music, Meghna manages a team of over 150 ney began right out of Miranda House, Design, Art, Theatre, Dance, Publishing faculty and professionals. She oversees Delhi University, as an Analyst at McKin- and Technology have raised over 12 all aspects of the institute. She is the sey & Co. She dabbled into many indus- crores on Wishberry. Over 50% of the youngest and only Asian woman to receive try sectors before fi nding her niche in total funds have been collected by fi lms the Honorary Fellowship from Bradford Social media and the Social sector. She alone. Wishberry is now also expanding College, UK. She has previously managed discovered the concept of crowdfunding towards producing low budget cinema. Meghna Ghai-Puri Anshulika Dubey Marketing at Mukta Arts Limited for fi lms while on a project at McKinsey and she like Pardes, Taal and Yaadein. She has decided to pioneer this concept in India What is your website? been associated with key businesses in in 2012 by launching India’s fi rst crowd- wishberry.in the Indian entertainment industry through funding platform for creative artists. prominent projects like Cinema 100. Wishberry is now also expanding towards producing low budget cinema.

WHISTLING WOODS Rahul Puri WOMEN AND GIRLS Abhishek Srivastava INTERNATIONAL Head Of Academics LEAD GLOBAL Director, India What does your job involve? What does your job involve? Women and Girls Lead Global’s Vision Born in Wales, Rahul Puri studied I am the director of Women and The Women and Girls Lead Global Business Management at Kings Girls Lead India Association- a project combines high-quality College, London where he won the project that uses documentary documentary fi lms, television Dean’s Award for most meritorious fi lms for social change. broadcasts, strategic communication student, three years in a row. promotion, outreach tools, local A stint in Investment Banking with content production, and facilitated UBS taught him about multi-billion fi lm screenings and other engagement dollar deals before he moved to activities. The goal of the initiative India and entered the entertainment is to use powerful storytelling and business with Mukta Arts of which transmedia strategies to improve Rahul Puri Abhishek Srivastava he is now the Managing Director. the lives of women and girls in fi ve With Mukta Arts, he has been part countries, viz. Kenya, Bangladesh, India, of production, distribution and Egypt and Peru - and reduce gender now exhibition and New Media. inequality by helping create knowledge, attitude, behaviour and policy change.

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What does your job involve? YES FOUNDATION’s Vision What does your job involve? Youth Ki Awaaz’s Vision Prerana Langa is the CEO of YES FOUND- YES FOUNDATION follows a diff erentiated Anshul is the Founder and Editor- Youth Ki Awaaz is India’s largest ATION, the social development arm of approach focusing on stimulating entre- in-Chief of Youth Ki Awaaz (YKA), social Justice media platform YES BANK. Prerana holds the distinction preneurship, responsible youth citizenship which is India’s largest social justice with the mission of helping young of being the key member to set up YES through the innovative use of media, to media platform for young people people break the culture of silence FOUNDATION with a vision to build an bridge gaps and act as a force multiplier to address and engage on critical around critical issues by harnessing empowered and equitable India. She has towards an empowered and equitable issues. He has worked across New the power of crowdsourcing been responsible for providing strategic India. The Foundation’s programs include Media as a media entrepreneur and and citizen-led storytelling. direction and leading the overall growth YES! I am the CHANGE, the World’s Largest infl uencer and serves as a Trustee on of the Foundation. Prerana Langa has Social Film Movement; the Social Film Grant the Board of Jhatkaa, a campaigning What is your website? professional experience of over twenty to create Public Service Announcement organisation committed to building youthkiawaaz.com Prerana Langa Anshul Tewari years. She has been a regular speaker, fi lms on Sustainable Development Goals grassroots citizen power across India. panellist and jury at international industry and the YES FOUNDATION Media for Social Anshul is also an Ashoka Fellow for forums including IDFA-Netherlands, Hot Change Fellowship to develop socially social entrepreneurship, an INK Fellow Docs International Film Festival - Canada, conscious youth leadership. and was named a Young Innovator AVPN Hong Kong and Singapore, China by the United Nations ITU in 2012. Charity Fair and at prestigious educa- What is your website? tional institutions including IIMs and IITs. yesfoundation.in

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CASE STUDIES 140 Good Pitch Website 141 India drivingwithselvi.com Facebook facebook.com/drivingwithselvi Twitter twitter.com/drivingwselvi Instagram instagram.com/drivingwselvi

elvi, like millions of girls living within India’s patriarchal Filmmaker Elisa Paloschi Ssociety, is forced to marry at Producer Elisa Paloschi 14, only to find herself in a violent Impact Producer Elisa Paloschi marriage. One day, in deep despair, Pitched Good Pitch Europe 2013 she chooses to run away, and goes and Good Pitch² India 2014 on to become South India’s first Elisa Paloschi As a documentary director, producer and cinematographer, Elisa female taxi driver. We see a Paloschi is drawn to stories that reflect the diversity of the human DRIVING voice. Her latest feature documentary Driving with Selvi premiered remarkable change as Selvi finds in 2015 at Raindance Independent Film Festival in London; since her voice and transforms from then it has appeared at over 100 festivals around the world, winning abused child bride to empowered awards including Best Documentary at the Atlantic Film Festival, WITH SELVI working woman. This is the 10 year was an Audience Top 10 Favourite at IDFA (International Doc- umentary Festival Amsterdam), broadcast in multiple countries, and journey of a charming, strong, and rated #1 best documentary of 2016 by London Time Out Magazine. ELISA PALOSCHI utterly courageous young woman who defies all expectations, moving beyond the pain she’s experienced to create a new life.

FILM RELEASE The film premiered in September 2015 at Raindance, London. Since then, it has screened at over 100 festivals world-wide, winning eight awards, and many accolades including Best Documentary at Atlanta Film Festival, Top 10 Audience Favorites IDFA 2015, and was rated 11th Top 100 Films of 2016 by TimeOut London. Broadcasts include Canada, USA, Netherlands, Jordan, Peru, Kenya, and Malawi. 142 Driving Good Pitch Good Pitch 143 with Selvi India India THE IMPACT CAMPAIGN • 4850 Facebook followers • 1200 Twitter followers • 47,750 trailer views

Our Audience Engagement and Social 2 Impact Campaign targets women and GOOD PITCH EU GOOD PITCH MUMBAI girls in communities in India where there In 2013, Driving with Selvi was one In 2014, Driving with Selvi was selected The Canadian Diplomatic Mission is a high risk of child marriage and of the seven films selected for for Good Pitch² Mumbai. Panelists in India would become a key partner gender-based violence. By partnering GoodPitch Europe. Filmmaker and included UNICEF, UN Women, Dasra, throughout each phase of the campaign. with local grassroots organisations Producer Elisa Paloschi was seeking Chicken & Egg Pictures and Break- Elisa was invited to participate in the working at the frontline of women’s and financial support to complete her film through. Three additional panelists Governor General of Canada’s state visit girls’ rights, the campaign’s strategy and the development of the impact went on to host the Brain-Trusts: to India as an official delegate. During centers around the use of the film campaign. Following her pitch, Elisa Canadian Consulate in Mumbai; the visit, she was introduced to many as an educational tool and a compelling received a production grant from USAID in Delhi; and Thompson Reuters high-profile individuals including starting point to open dialogue and Chicken & Egg Pictures, and impact Foundation in Bengaluru. In what was the Indian President and Prime Minister. guide focused discussions around grants from Bertha BRITDOC Connect a surprise gesture, panelist Alfred key issues affecting women and girls. Fund and Fledgling Fund. This Arambhan gifted a cargo truck to Participation in both Good Pitch The three-phase campaign leverages enabled her to move forward with the Selvi, enabling her to launch a transport events helped Elisa complete her the power of the film and Selvi’s story film’s three phase campaign: partnership business with her husband.Dasra, film and raise awareness in India and to support personal and economic development with rough-cut screening/ India’s leading strategic philanthropy internationally. She went on to form agency and inspire dialogue that Brain-Trust events; Selvi’s Bus Tour; foundation, invited Selvi to speak to a wide network of ongoing relationships shifts public opinion on child marriage and Indian and North American key international philanthropists and that served as a springboard for and attitudes towards women’s and community and educational screenings. change-makers at their Philanthropy the campaign’s successes. girls’ place in the family, society Week. At Dasra’s 2016 Houston and workforce. Philanthropy Forum, Elisa was a panelist on the Media and Building a Movement for Adolescent Girl Empowerment panel. 144 Driving Good Pitch Good Pitch 145 with Selvi India India

CAMPAIGN GOALS CAMPAIGN COMPONENTS SELVI’S BUS TOUR • Shift public opinion regarding In 2014, the team organized robust, impact of the film; and the third, A 25-day screening tour was launched forthcoming evaluation report, and child marriage. influencer and stakeholder rough-cut would launch India-wide on the International Day of the Girl Child insights for the third phase of imple- • Inspire dialogue around personal screenings and Brain Trust events in screenings through partnerships 2017, in partnership with the Canadian mentation. The tour closed with and economic agency and alter Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru. Local with grassroots organizations High Commission and WDC Miranda influencer screening events in attitudes regarding girls’ and and international experts were invited and educational institutes. House, Delhi University. The tour was Bengaluru and Delhi, hosted by the women’s place in the family, society to offer recommendations on how the funded by: Bertha BRITDOC Connect Canadian Diplomatic Mission to and workplace. film might be leveraged by organizations Fund; Fledgling Fund; LUSH Charity Pot; India, to celebrate successes, share • Influence and foster the security addressing issues concerning education, Leacross Foundation; Global Affairs findings, and cement relationships. and economic empowerment of equality and empowerment of women Canada; Ontario Arts Council and women through driving as a viable and girls. More than 80 people from individual donors. The team screened Initial findings from the tour show livelihood. 40 organizations participated in these in 30 communities in 4 states, reaching a positive short-term shift in attitudes • Forge alliances between events, helping define the campaign’s almost 2500 girls and women from urban regarding the age a girl should marry audiences in North America and goals and strategy: the campaign’s first slums, rural hamlets, schools and govern- and women’s rights and voice within girls and women in India. phase would focus on raising awareness ment hostels. Our thirteen screening the family. A key takeaway highlighted • Screen to 1 million Indian girls and of the film and building relationships partners including the Karnataka Ministry the importance of involving parents in their families. with key stakeholders; the second phase, for Women & Child Development, Magic screenings and workshops, as requested Selvi’s Bus Tour, was designed to build Bus, Plan India, Aga Khan Foundation, by a majority of the girls in attendance. the campaign’s profile, work directly and Azad Foundation. The tour enabled The tour received coverage from over with potential partners and test the the collection of a first set of data for a 50 media outlets. 146 Driving Good Pitch Good Pitch 147 with Selvi India India

COLLABORATORS Idobro Kamelia Savova Shruthi TS Lina Srivastava Jayashree Jagannatha Vicky Lakshmanan Julia Morgan Loud Speaker Media Higher Ground Cayley James Abhishek Srivastava Erin Sorensen Selvi Kunjee Gowda

INDIAN COMMUNITY AND NORTH AMERICAN LOOKING AHEAD BUILDING AWARENESS / In India, a number of grassroots organis- EDUCATIONAL SCREENINGS SCREENINGS ations want to include the film to advance OUTCOMES their work with women and girls’ empower- Community and educational outreach The film has been part of successful Two successful Indiegogo crowd- Worldwide media covered the film of her story is helping her heal, grow ment. With interest from The Ministry of began in India in 2015 with key partner engagement programs across the funding campaigns were run in 2014 extensively, including The Guardian, and understand her power. In 2017, Women and Child Development and Ministry Independent Television Service®, US world with institutions including: Brown and 2016 attracting 700+ contributors The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, Selvi was honoured with India’s First of Human Resource Development, there is an (ITVS), as part of the Women and Girls University, Princeton; Carleton University, from 25 countries raising $71,000. The Times of India, VICE UK and BBC Women Achievers Award, presented opportunity to have the film used in schools Lead Global (WGLG) initiative, spanning Ottawa; PETEM School Brunei; United campaigns and associated press helped World Service. by President Kovind and Minister for across India. The film was mistakenly leaked two years. Driving with Selvi was part World Colleges, Singapore; women’s build a strong community of advocates. WCD, Maneka Gandhi. to all 1100 Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan of the Hero Academy, a nine-week prisons in New Caledonia; and schools The film has been dubbed in Hindi, schools across India and viewed 1300 times program for young men centered on for at-risk youth in Colorado. Hot Docs Elisa has traveled for speaking Telugu, Spanish, Arabic, Swahili, within 48 hours before the link was closed changing perspectives on traditional Festival school program screened the engagements and for master classes and subtitled in English, French and down. Proper distribution, together with norms of masculinity and gender film in 250 Ontario classrooms in May on the power of film as a catalyst for Spanish. educational materials and facilitated dis- roles. Approximately 600 young men 2017, with an additional 150 screenings social change at conferences and cussion, is imperative for the film to achieve participated. Additionally, WGLG scheduled for May 2018. By June events, including UN CinéONU Brussels, The film has had a profound impact full impact. Through these partnerships held approximately 50 community 2018, more than 500 screenings Plan India Delhi, CARE International on Selvi. Traveling to festivals and we have the ability to exceed our goal of screenings in India, and 200 school will have been organized. Atlanta, WeConnect Delhi, Ford screenings around the globe, speaking screening to 1 million girls across India. screenings in Bangladesh. Foundation NYC and Toronto Doc in public and facilitating screenings, We are seeking funding partners to support Institute. first-hand experience of the impact program development and implementation. 148 Good Pitch Website 149 India thankyoufortherain.com Facebook facebook.com/ThankYouForTheRain

he film, Thank You For The Rain (2017, 87 min), tells a Director Julia Dahr Twarm and intimate story Co - Director Kisilu Musya about Kisilu, a charismatic Kenyan Producer Hugh Hartford farmer and father, and his fight Impact Producer Emily Wanja (East Africa) against climate change over the Pitched Good Pitch Europe 2017 course of five years. Emily Wanja Emily Wanja is an internationally acclaimed producer with a career On a macro level, this award-winning film is that spans from theatre acting, to TV drama and movies. A content THANK YOU about our changing weather, but more than and Impact producer based in Nairobi, Kenya, she uses the audio- that, it’s a story about the hope and fighting visual medium to create content on trends, needs and information spirit of Kisilu and his family who refuse to for mass consumption at OwNA Movie Ltd. She works with give up. The film examines the psychological filmmakers from around the world to create content and strategies FOR THE RAIN aspects of living at the frontline of climate that ensure their work is seen and achieves an impact. change. What does it do to you as a human being when an abstract, external factor such JULIA DAHR as climate change is threatening to destroy everything you know? Though Kisilu’s mission & KISILU MUSYA is to save his family and community, he ends up spending less and less time at home with his wife and children. So the story is also about the impossible dilemma of having to decide whether the best father is an available father in the present, or a father who fights for his children’s future.

“An inspiring and captivating tale of an indefatigable optimist, who nonetheless tests his limits in the fight for a greener world.” - CPH:DOX 2017 150 Thank You Good Pitch Good Pitch 151 For the Rain India India THE IMPACT CAMPAIGN NORWAY • 1 TEDGlobal speech by Kisilu • 7000 people have watched the film in Norway so far through • 1 59 screenings in 36 countries across the globe community screenings, educational screenings and political screenings • 1 screening and talk by Kisilu at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn, • 75 screenings COP23, in collaboration with Mary Robinson Climate Justice Foundation • Screened in 14 out of Norway’s 18 counties • 7 international awards and prizes including Best Feature Documentary • 51 unique media articles on Kisilu’s story and the film • 1,51,230 unique visits to the film website - www.thankyoufortherain.com • 2 national front pages reaching an audience of approximately • 8 - The number of languages the film has been translated 1,30,000 people to. This includes Kisilu’s local language, Kikamba • 60 partners - NGOs, churches, libraries, cinemas and schools • Thousands of tree seedlings planted by Kisilu and the community to

adapt and mitigate to climate change 1. COMMUNITY SCREENINGS The screenings took place in churches, leaders and NGO representatives of The campaign here was on three levels: local cinemas, community houses, more than 29 organisations. The event • SALES: 11 national broadcasters in Europe and 49 countries across Community, Educational and Political schools, cafés, cultural centres, libraries was centered around Norwegian screenings. One of the key campaign et cetera. With a few exceptions, all development policy with food and Sub-Saharan Africa goals was to reach out to a broader and screenings were open to the public. climate as one of the main topics, and more diverse audience than climate the panelists were the leading candidates activists and others who might typically “We had a larger audience at the of the major political parties in Norway. watch a climate documentary. To achieve screening than usual, so the topic of Kisilu’s opening speech set the tone for Impact for this film started in 2017 in take action. The main activities of the this, we decided to co-host a series the movie was clearly catching the the debate, and gained a large interest in Norway and in Kenya. The campaigns campaign were community screenings, of community screenings across the interest of our audience. The empathy social media. His story and inspirational have been running simultaneously. political advocacy, educational Norway prior to the general elections in and feeling in the storytelling really drive for change reached not only a screenings and media outreach. September 2017, to inspire people to take engaged the attendees.” large audience, but also a broad one at Our main objectives were to start the climate change into consideration when - Organiser, Arendalsuka: Eminent politicians and journey of building climate resilient For Kenya, we set out on a community making their decision for the ballot as Future in Our Hands Sogndal decision makers, the youth and future communities, changing hearts and driven impact campaign, led by the well as in their day-to-day actions. politicians and leaders, media, corporate minds, get the film to be used by most urgent climate change needs of 2. POLITICAL SCREENINGS leaders, as well as multiple organisations organisations to spread climate change the community in Mutomo, Kitui County Through our collaboration with the In August 2017, Kisilu Musya and director awareness among farmers, governments where Kisilu comes from. We saw Climate Election Alliance (CEA), a non- Julia Dahr were invited by The Develop- 3. EDUCATIONAL SCREENINGS and students and change structures Mutomo as a representation of similar partisan alliance consisting of over 60 ment Fund and Spire to Arendalsuka, In September-October 2017 Kisilu and through policy makers’ involvement. areas in Kenya and the larger East different organisations, the film was a yearly non-partisan political gathering Julia went on a tour in Hordaland, Africa that were hardest hit by climate made available free of charge to anyone in Norway. The event is a meeting place Norway, where they screened the film For the Campaign in Norway, the goal change. Hence, this area would serve who wanted to organise a community for actors within politics, civil society to 5000 youths in secondary and high was to use the film and Kisilu’s story as a pilot on climate change adaptation screening. CEA was a key partner in and business, and is free and open to schools in collaboration with Bergen to spark debate, raise awareness methods that could work and be promoting this chance to screen the film. the public. International Film Festival, The Cultural on climate change and climate justice, sustained by the community long The result was 43 community screenings Backpack, Hordaland Fylkeskommune, and to engage a diverse audience to after the campaign. in 40 different locations all over Norway, More than 200 people were present in and Raftostiftelsen. Getting to meet so hosted by 24 different organisations. the audience; among them politicians, many engaged youths who came to see 152 Thank You Good Pitch Good Pitch 153 For the Rain India India KENYA • 7300 people have watched the film in Kenya in this first phase of impact campaign through community screenings, private organisations and school screenings • 26 screenings • 30 more farming groups formed since the community screenings started, bringing to 70 the total number of farmer groups • Developed a report of the most pressing needs and proposed solutions tabled by the community in adaptation to climate change in their area • Kisilu featured on the most popular radio station in eastern Kenya reaching 1.6 million people • Three articles on the film, the director and Kisilu featured on the country’s leading newspaper with a circulation of 1,70,000 copies Kisilu, as their climate hero, made this experiencing the brutal challenges Nationen had both, a full page article one of the most inspiring events of the first-hand. I hope more people get and a six-page feature interview with • 10 organisations based in Nairobi have asked to use the film in impact campaign. The educational tour to see the film and meet Kisilu!” Kisilu and Julia, which was followed by in public schools allowed Kisilu’s story - Student a debate between readers in the their work after the premiere to reach young people from all kinds newspaper’s opinion pages about of backgrounds. For many of the 4. MEDIA OUTREACH whether or not global climate change • 4 county governments have asked to use the film as a climate students, this was the first time to hear In addition to reaching out directly is affecting Kenya. about climate justice. through film screenings and Q&As change awareness tool in their counties with Kisilu, we did strategic press work This illustrates how the film and “Kisilu’s story and getting to meet to make sure that our message had Kisilu’s story was not only seen but also • The film is being used by Doc Academy to develop lesson plans him after the film was very inspiring! a wider reach than just the audience made an impact outside the environ- I found it incredibly important that at the screenings. Kisilu’s story was mental movement, and contributed to to be used in high schools as part of the curriculum climate fights from all over the world well covered in both local and national the public debate on climate change. are included by the media, and that media. It was mentioned in several blogs we make sure voices from Kenya are and local news outlets, as well as in 1. COMMUNITY SCREENINGS participation and ownership of the screen the film. The venues would equally important as voices from newsletters from different organisations. Area visit & trailer screenings process and the film, which had largely enable diverse members of the European countries. It made great In December of 2016, we visited Mutomo been made in their area. community to participate, making impression seeing the contrast bet- The story was also featured in two national and consulted with community repres- the process as inclusive as possible. ween fighting against climate change print newspapers, Klassekampen and entatives on the best way to convene and Outcome in Europe, which is more distanced, Nationen, whose daily reach is of conduct effective trailer screenings in The community representatives In the February of 2017, we went back and Kisilu’s battle, who’s 88,000 and 46,000 readers respectively. their area. We needed the community’s identified four different locations to to Mutomo and conducted trailer 154 Thank You Good Pitch Good Pitch 155 For the Rain India India

screenings for four groups of people • Education on ways of farming that aid. If we are just given information, officers ranged from Environment, with the government in conserving smooth operation and management of that were already involved in climate are drought resistant then will make informed decisions Water and Natural resources, Civic the environment through tree growing resources and county institutions. It change adaptation efforts, each • Development of homegrown solutions on what to plant because every Education and Forestry. This was the programmes falls directly under the national govern- consisting between 25 to 30 people, to the climate challenges in their ward season we are just getting losses.” first time for the farmers participating • The county government pledged to ment and is the highest office that can plus a school. • Effective water harvesting, irrigation - Maria Gideon, Community Member in a meeting of this nature to discuss work with Kisilu and the community in directly effect most of the requests of the projects, earth dams and exposure on climate change using film as a tool. their climate change adaptation efforts community. This was a crucial meeting. It was the first time a film was being how other farmers in the country are The full length film screenings, We needed the county leadership to used as a tool in this area for an dealing with similar issues Kitui, June 2017 Outcomes “Kisilu, we congratulate you for your commit to work with the community in agenda. These trailer screenings served • Crops and seed varieties that are In recognition of our previous discussions • In a span of two days, about two resilience and advocacy on climate finding solutions to their challenges at as a research opportunity on how to drought resistant or that can thrive in with the community members and the thousand people watched the film, change. My office will support your both, the county level and the grassroots best and effectively use the film as a their area (i.e. millet, cassava, information we gathered during the - a majority of them women and youth groups through distributing seedlings level. For the first time in Mutomo, the tool for climate change adaptation green gram, etc) trailer screenings, we returned to Mutomo • The larger community engaged and sensitizing them on the best ways community representatives got a chance through community participation and to screen the full length film. In line directly with their leaders and on conserving the environment.” to sit with their county leadership face-to- contribution and most importantly for They also requested for a face-to-face with the community asks, we organized discussed loopholes in the existing - Kyambati Silai, Senior Chief, Mutomo face, to discuss climate change and how the community to come up with what discussion with the county government for county officers, who worked with programmes and climate change it was affecting them on the ground. they believed would be the solution to the on how they could benefit from the the farmers on the ground to attend, mitigation efforts in their region 2. GOVERNMENT A total of 18 people participated in the challenges they were facing in their area. already allocated resources and relevant stakeholders from the private • They agreed on the need for farmers SCREENING / MEETING meeting, including seven community programmes in the adaptation and fight sector, plus NGO’s that had been running to go back to drought resistant County leadership meeting, representatives. Present was the Ministry Outcome against climate change in their county. programs in Mutomo and the surrounding crops, invest in irrigation systems and April 2017 of Environment and Natural Resources The solutions community members areas to be present. A total of 13 leaders water harvesting through dams The county is responsible for the and the Ministry of Agriculture, Water gave included: “We are not even asking to be given came including the area chief. The • They resolved to work more closely approval of plans and policies for the and Livestock - Kitui County. 156 Thank You Good Pitch Good Pitch 157 For the Rain India India

SELECTED PARTNERS GOING FORWARD Doc Society Kitui County Government Greenpeace Africa Spire Pan African Climate Justice Alliance Climate Smart Agriculture HUMAN International Heinrich Böll Stiftung East Youth Network Documentary Festival and Horn of Africa National Drought Management The United Nations The Bertha Foundation Authority Association of Norway The British Council Slum Film Festival DocuBox HeartWare Foundation The Mary Robinson Foundation 350.org University of Nairobi For Climate Justice

Outcomes 3. NATIONAL SCREENING OUTCOMES • The county leaders acknowledged that - The county pledged to use the film as Nairobi (capital) premiere, • Approximately 600 people • Media buzz of the film on radio Kyatune ward, where the community a tool to create climate change November 2017 turned up to watch the film for the and print members are from, is one of the hardest awareness in schools and among There was a need to do a premiere Nairobi premiere. This was double • There is increased demand for the hit areas by climate change and one left farmers of this film in the capital of Kenya, the number we were expecting film screening in the neighbouring behind by many government - The county leaders explained how Nairobi. This would coincide with the • It was the first time in Nairobi for this counties interventions they were working in conjunction with international attention the film was number of people to turn up for a • Following Kisilu’s interview on • The county pledged to work with the other stakeholders who participated in already getting around this period documentary film screening radio, he is receiving calls and community and provide services such as: decision making at the county level to and was in time for the COP23 • At the end of the film, Kisilu, his wife invitations by farmers in the - Markets for the farmers’ produce provide and work on finding solutions gathering in Bonn 2017, where Kisilu Christina, and the Director, Julia, got a county to share the film and talk - Information on livestock that fared - Informed the community members on had also been invited. With this cheerful standing ovation from the about his work on climate change well in dry and arid areas the different programmes on climate premiere we sought to spread climate crowd followed by a robust question - Seed varieties that could withstand change adaptation that were ongoing change awareness, community driven and answer session drought and short rains in their area and advised members on solutions to an urban audience, get • On a national level, the Nairobi - Frequent training and sharing of how to plug in organisations to know about the film, premiere was followed by more than information through the county use it in their climate change work, 10 organisations approaching the extension officers “I am so happy. I never imagined also open doors for more impact film team and asking to use it in their - Establish linkages between institutions this kind of a meeting. It was very screenings and for partners to climate change work; others pledged and the farmers to ensure these facilities useful to speak for ourselves directly.” come on board to join Kisilu and to work with Kisilu and his community are received by the people who are - Mueni Juma, Community the community in their climate in their climate change efforts in need farmer representative resilient movement.

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