Gabrielle is currently a faculty member at the American Film Institute Conservatory and was former faculty at NYU, USC, and UCLA. She was also a Sundance Mentor and a Fulbright scholar in Asian media. She is screenwriter, producer and global expert in screenplay Labs conducted across the Middle-East, South and East Asia. She has also authored numerous acclaimed papers and books on global storytelling and brings decades of experience in screenwriting and producing across the Hollywood studio system and the Indie world. She is also a member of BAFTA, Women In Film, the Irish Screenwriters Guild and a judge and programmer at numerous film festivals worldwide.

Terrie Samundra is a Director and Screenwriter whose debut feature, the Netflix Original film KAALI KHUHI, was released globally in October 2020. Samundra's short films have screened internationally to strong festival runs, garnering accolades. In 2022, Terrie wrapped the writer’s room for season two of the Netflix series THE FAME GAME and is currently in development of an undisclosed original series in an International and US based production partnership. Samundra is an alum of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the Sundance WIF Finance Lab and is a current directing fellow of ReFrame Rise; a partnership between the Sundance Institute and Women in Film. She is a SFFILM Rainin fellow and a Princess Grace recipient. A multicultural artist, Samundra grew up between a rural village in Punjab, India, a small farming town in Missouri, and along the coast of California. She is represented by the Gersh Agency and Circle of Confusion, is a member of the WGA and teaches screenwriting at AFI.

Adnan is an award-winning filmmaker, Berlinale Talents Alum and Fulbright Scholar whose works have received much acclaim globally, including being showcased at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) headquarters in Los Angeles and winning more than 25 awards worldwide. He has also taught filmmaking in both the US and internationally, working with professionals and students alike and served as a faculty member at two of the top-10 ranked film schools in the US.

Between his fictional film HEAL and feature music-doc on the origin story of Coke Studio, The Journey Within, his work has been universally appreciated by audiences worldwide, receiving top honors multiple times including winning the prestigious 'Frank Capra Award', 'Jesse Epstein Humanitarian Award' and ‘Best Science Fiction / Fantasy Film’ at Comic-Con - the largest annual comic and pop culture festival in the world.

Adnan has also served as a Jury Member for various film festivals and worked as a Consultant / Advisor for different organizations. His films have been included in academic programs at schools / colleges in the US, Pakistan and India, including being a part of the South Asian Cinema program at University of California, and mentioned in the book 'Understanding Design in Film Production' by US author Barbara Doyle, which includes insights from experts at the top of their field.

With an MFA in screenwriting from Boston University, Aviv has worked as a screenwriter and script consultant for over a dozen feature films and TV pilots with award winning actors like Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jnr. As a director, he has created narrative and documentary works including the musical road trip feature film, ‘The Anchorite’, which draws from his experience as a musician and music video director. Most recently he has worked on the international horror feature, ‘Kingdom’ shot in Malaysia and on an indie feature, ‘Lizzie Lazarus’.

He has taught screenwriting since 2007 at Emerson, Hussain College and the Studio School in Los Angeles with a focus on the feature screenplay. As a guest lecturer he has spoken at Boston University and the University of Rhode Island on screenplay structure and directing.

Aparna Purohit was Head of Originals for Amazon Prime India before transitioning to the role of CEO for Aamir Khan Productions. Under Purohit’s creative tutelage, the streaming giant ticked off, among others, shows that pretty much encapsulate the idea of modern India: cricket (Inside Edge), wedding (Made in Heaven), crime and politics (Mirzapur, Paatal Lok). She was also the driving force behind the diversity initiatives at Prime Video, significantly increasing female participation in storytelling in front of and behind the camera. She has also taken Indian OTT platforms to regional audiences with shows such as Haraa, Masti's and Dhootha.

Before her time at Prime, Aparna has also worked at Sony TV and UTV where under the Spotlight banner, she was involved with a string of highly successful indie films in the late 2000s (DevD, Udaan, Shahid). When she transitioned to be a part of NFDC's Screenwriting Lab and later Sundance Mumbai Mantra Lab she was at the forefront of the development of many defining Indian scripts such as Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox, Kanu Behl's Titli, Shonali Bose's Margarita With A Straw and Neeraj Ghewyan's Masaan.

Monisha is a creative producer at Awedacious Originals. Monisha has worked on conceptualization, script writing, shooting/filming (direction or production) and post production. With Awedacious critically acclaimed documentary, WOMB - Woman of My Billions, The Hunt for Veerappan and Pakistani film Wakhri.

The genres she has professionally explored so far include Lifestyle TV shows ranging from fashion, food and travel to Digital advertising, corporate films and even a dash of Journalism.

Paolo Bertolin is a festival programmer, film critic and producer. He joined the Venice International Film Festival in 2008 as a part of the programming team. Since 2016, he is the Artistic Consultant of Locarno Open Doors and has worked for several international film festivals and institutions, including IFFRotterdam, the Doha Film Institute, Udine Far East FF, Torino FF, Mumbai IFF, Beijing IFF, IFFBratislava. In 2019, he also joined the selection committee of Cannes' Directors' Fortnight.

As a film critic and journalist, he wrote articles for Italian and international publications, including Il manifesto, Cineforum, Segnocinema, The Korea Times, Cahiers du cinéma, Positif and Senses of Cinema. Furthermore, he has production credits on such films as Phan Dang Di's Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories, Lav Diaz’s A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery and Amit Dutta’s Chitrashala, all entries in the Berlinale Competition. He is a member of the European Film Academy and of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards Academy.

Radhika Gopal is Head - Writers and Directors at Tulsea, a strategic talent and content management company that represents and advises India's leading content creators. Tulsea represents and advises leading content creators who work across platforms and formats including motion pictures, television, new media, and gaming in USA, UK, APAC (including India), and other emerging content markets around the world.

Radhika was one of the first talent agents to join Tulsea in 2014, and has worked closely with Tulsea's writers and directors since then. She has also been instrumental in building Tulsea's team in India alongside the Founding Partners of the company - Datta Dave and Chaitanya Hegde. She has deep relationships within the Indian media and entertainment industry and works with talent to help realize creative and strategic goals.

Ranabir Das graduated from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune where he produced and shot multiple films. Soon after graduating Das shot Payal Kapadia's documentary, A Night of Knowing Nothing which he also co-produced and edited. The film premiered at Director's Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Documentary Film award.

Ranabir has also shot the short film, The Daughter and Pushpendra Singh's Laila Aur Saat Geet before he returned to the producer's role with Payal's Kapadia's fiction debut — the Indian-French-Luxembourgish-Italian co production film, All We Imagine As Light, which became the first Indian film to compete in the main competition at Cannes Film Festival since 1984 and also won the Grand Prix.

RS Prasanna is an Indian writer and filmmaker, who made his debut in 2013 with a rather unconventional Tamil romantic comedy, Kalyana Samayal Saadham, a story about a man suffering from erectile dysfunction. The film was well-received by the audience and critics, making it critically and commercially successful. In 2017, the film was adapted and remade in Hindi as Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, also directed by Prasanna. The Hindi remake, which was produced by Anand L Rai's Color Yellow Productions, broke barriers and emerged as a blockbuster. Prasanna was recognised for his technical and creative prowess, which got him nominated for the Best Debut Director award in Zee Cine Awards. Rajeev Masand selected the film as one of the Top 5 films in 2017 and Prasanna was featured in Rajeev Masand's Directors' Roundtable alongside SS Rajamouli of Bahubali fame.

Prasanna has also produced and directed On A Quest, a biopic on Swami Chinmayananda Saraswathi, the teacher who inspired the formation of the Chinmaya Mission.

Shinho co-wrote The Chaser directed by Hong-Jin Na. It was one of the highest grossing films in Korea in 2008 and invited to The 2008 Cannes Film Festival for the Official Selection Midnight Screening. Lee adapted While The Women Are Sleeping (the critically acclaimed short story by Javier Marias) into the screenplay with Michael Ray and Mami Sunada. It was directed by Wayne Wang (Joy Luck Club, Smoke, Maid in Manhattan) and was invited to The 2016 Berlin Film Festival for the Panorama Special Screening. Lee wrote the screenplay Sayonara Itsuka (Saying Goodbye, One day) based on the bestselling novel by Hitonari Tsuji. It stars Miho Nakayama from Shunji Iwai’s Love Letter and was successfully released in Japan and Korea in 2010.

Lee’s screenplay The Red Snow was the Grand Prize Winner of The 2003 Harley-Merrill International Screenwriting Award sponsored by MPA and RKO Pictures and The 2002 CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacific in Entertainment) Foundation’s New Writers Award sponsored by The 20th Century FOX. Lee is currently developing TV series and films set in Asia and Europe.Lee teaches screenwriting in the Dramatic Writing Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Sumit Purohit dons many hats including that of a filmmaker, writer, editor, and visual artist. An alumnus of the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda, Sumit spent his college days dabbling in theatre while also shooting short films and videos with his trusted handy cam. Sumit's directorial debut was with an experimental short documentary, I Woke Up One Morning & Found Myself Famous, which was widely screened in film festivals across the country. Most recently, Sumit received widespread acclaim for writing and editing Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, a 10-part series based on the book by journalists Sucheta Dalal and Debashis Basu. Set in the Bombay of the 1980's-90's, it takes you behind the scenes of India's biggest financial scam at that time.

In addition, he was the co-writer on the Hindi Film Bangistan, a black comedy, and Amazon Prime Video’s International Emmy nominated Indian original series Inside Edge. Sumit’s debut feature documentary titled Charlie Champion- an ode to the magic of cinema and its influence beyond borders and generations - is in the post-production stage.

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