Apoorva Bakshi is an International EMMY Award-winning producer, most notably known for her Sundance favorite & International EMMY Winner Delhi Crime, National Award-winning films, Shut up Sona and Leeches; Netflix Musical What are the odds?; and widely watched Facebook Originals Homespun & Kashmir Creates. She serves as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Golden Karavan, Awedacious Originals, and Project FUEL carving her niche as one of the youngest producers of prolific South Asian productions.

An accomplished story engineer, Apoorva has collaborated with auteurs & filmmakers and developed a robust slate of genre defying projects, which include Book Adaptations, Period Drama Series, Animation Features, Scripted and Unscripted Film and TV shows.

A fierce guardian of independent voices, Apoorva has also successfully acquired and distributed over 50+ award-winning independents, notably the Cannes favorites, Gangs of Wasseypur; Golden Globe shortlists Fandry & Siddharth; IDFA winner Placebo and Indian Selection for the Oscars Visaranai among others. She has also worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment Networks Asia on large-scale format productions such as the Amazing Race Asia and India’s Minute to Win it.

Having experienced the creative and business side of the entertainment industry, Apoorva has successfully navigated both and continues to find new ways to innovate and merge the two.

Gazal Dhaliwal, lead Writer of the popular Netflix series ‘Mismatched’, is a proud Trans woman. Gazal has written the screenplay and dialogues for Vinod Chopra Films’ Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, starring Rajkummar Rao, Anil Kapoor and Sonam K Ahuja - India's first mainstream Hindi film about a gay woman’s romantic and family life. She has also written dialogues for Alankrita Shrivastava's critically acclaimed 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' and she wrote the dialogues and co-wrote the screenplay for Tanuja Chandra's Qarib Qarib Singlle, starring Irrfan Khan and Parvathy.

Devdutt Pattanaik writes on mythology, which he defines as cultural truths revealed through stories, symbols and rituals. He lectures on the relevance of both Indian and Western myths in modern life. In the last 25 years, he has authored and illustrated over 50 books, including Book of Ram and Dharmic Leadership.

Known for his TED talk and his TV shows such as Devlok and Business Sutra, he is a regular columnist for reputed newspapers like Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar.

He was trained in medicine, spent 15 years working in the pharma and healthcare industry, but over the past decade has been fully immersed in exploring mythology and sharing its wisdom with the world.

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.

Radhika began her career with the premier advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather (Mumbai) as an Account Executive on fashion and consumer brands. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Mass Media from the University of Mumbai.

Dhruv Sehgal is a critically acclaimed and award-winning writer, actor, and director. Most popularly known for his original series Little Things. He recently wrote and directed an episode of Modern Love Mumbai (2022) for Amazon Prime Video. Sehgal has also worked as an associate director and co-editor with national award-winning Jaideep Verma for the documentaries Baavra Mann (2013) and I am Offended (2015). Dhruv also wrote and directed the short film ‘Kunal’, which won the best short film award at MAMI.

He regularly conducts writing workshops at esteemed colleges such as IIT-BHU, IIM-L, and MICA, sharing his knowledge with some of the biggest potential talents in the country. As a storyteller, Dhruv is interested in the everydayness of human relationships, the changing facets of urban life, and how one's environment impacts the self. Currently, he is working as a showrunner on his next project with Clean Slate Filmz.

Vikramaditya Motwane is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for films like Udaan (2010), Lootera (2013), Trapped (2017) and Bhavesh Joshi Superhero (2018).

His directorial debut Udaan (2010) was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and also won seven Filmfare awards. Motwane is the creator of Netflix's first Indian series 'Sacred Games' and the Amazon Original Jubilee (2023) which gained an overwhelming positive response.

Jyoti Nisha is a multi disciplinary professional - an academic, writer, screenwriter and filmmaker with a focus on cinema, gaze, caste, gender and mass media with 15 years of experience. She theorized, Bahujan Spectatorship, a political theory that opposes the popular culture’s casteist male gaze and stereotypical representation of the marginalised, earlier called as untouchables, on the silver screen and explores the consumption and spectatorship of popular cinema’s representation of caste, gender, and sexuality by the marginalized of India. Her second theory, The Oppositional Bahujan Agency locates the social identity of a marginalised subject (Shudra & Ati Shudras and women), community culture, dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols, sacred objects, etc. in Indian cinema by using Ambedkar’s historical methods—a non-Brahminic critique of positivist history—as a methodology/ epistemology/ language/ aesthetic in contrast to popular culture’s monolithic aesthetic of Hindu Natyashastra in India. She has written for many national and international publications and worked as a full time Producing faculty with Whistling Woods International for a year and half. Her documentary film, 'Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: Now & Then,' is her debut feature length film which she has directed, produced, crowdfunded in co-production with Pa Ranjith’s Neelam Productions

Mumbai based Amit Masurkar is the director of SHERNI (2021), NEWTON (2017) and SULEMANI KEEDA (2014). NEWTON traveled to more than 70 festivals globally and won several awards. It was India's Official Selection to the Oscars. His latest film SHERNI is about tiger conservation and released on Amazon Primevideo in 2021.

Jay Duplass is an American filmmaker, actor and author widely known for his films The Puffy Chair (2005), Cyrus (2010), and Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), made in collaboration with his younger brother, Mark Duplass. Duplass starred in the Amazon Video comedy-drama series Transparent (2014–2019), and co-created the HBO comedy-drama series Togetherness (2015–16) and the HBO anthology series Room 104 (2017–2020).

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