SAFM - 2018
Jury Members
SHARIQ PATEL
CEO, ZEE Studios
ZEE Studios is amongst the leading Film Studios in India. It is the film arm of ZEE ENTERTAINMENT ENTERPRISES LTD, India’s leading media conglomerate. Recent releases include Dhadak, Secret Superstar, Rustom and upcoming releases are Manikarnika and Kesari.
Shariq Patel an MBA has over 20 years of diverse and rich experience across various industries spanning Financial Services, Radio, Internet, Telecom, Sports Management and Films. He has spent the last decade in films starting off with being Executive Vice President, Production, Viacom18 before starting his own venture Trigno Media Pvt Ltd under which he produced “ Dharam Sankat Mein”starring Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah. At Zee Studios his portfolio includes driving all in house content creation for Zee including Television and Digital.
SAURABH GUPTA
MD & Co-Founder, M! Capital Ventures
Saurabh Gupta is the Managing Director & Co-Founder of M! Capital Ventures since 2015, managinga Film and Media focused Alternative Investment Fund.The fund has successfully invested in a slate of movie projects a cross Productions and Distributions. Saurabh is the lead producer of the upcoming Hollywood-French-Indian coproduction “The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir” (Dhanush), “Bhonsle”(Manoj Bajpayee) and “Rambo” (Tiger Shroff )which is the official Indian remake of the original Hollywood franchise. He has successfully promoted and distributed Blockbuster Films like Baahubali 2 (Hindi), Rustom, Raees, Kaabil, Sachin A Billion Dreams,Toilet-Ek Prem Katha in South East Asia.
CLEMENT FRANCOIS MAGAR
General Manager, Fortissimo Films
Clement Magar, reviously with Go Global & Lumieres has worked on several international projects. He did the interntational publicity for several Chinese films in Venice, Cannes and Montreal IFF. He was also responsible for acquiring more than 50 international films fo rChinese distribution. Fortissimo Films, over the past 25 years have worked with acclaimed directors like Wong Kar Wai, Jim Jarmush, Bela Tarr, Diao Yinan and Martin Scorcese. Fortissimo Films launched more than 250 films in Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Toronto IFF.
MARC BASCHET
Oscar Winning Producer
Marc Baschet is the Oscar wining producer of No Man’s Land and an Oscar nominee for Before the Rain by Milcho Manchevski. He coproduced The Lunch box by Ritesh Batra (Cannes 2013
Critic’s Week ) which was a world success, as well as Danis Tanovic’s Tigers.
GOLDA SELLAM
Consultant
More than 20 year’s experience of consulting practicein Culture and Audiovisual Certified expert for International Agencies such as: OIF, ACP Fund, Europe Creative Media, CFI, MAE but also for Film/TV producers to assist them in
developing and financing their projects on an international level, Asia, Africa, Europe. Film Production Training workshop for Ministry of Foreign Affaire- MAE Coaching talents and creative entrepreneurs in all stages from artistic development to financial partnership.
participating film maker
JL50
Cast: Abhay Deol, Pankaj Kapur, Ritika Anand, Piyush Mishra, Rajesh Sharma
Country: :Canada
Language:Hindi
Synopsis: A CBI Investigation into a recently crashed flight takes a drastic turn when they find out that JL50 is a flight that took off 35 years ago from Kolkata and then went missing. Shantunu, the CBI officer incharged of the case, has his own inner mystery, that supports the unfolding of this mind baffling investigation. Professor Das, a Professor of Physics, seems to some how be linked to JL50.The Only 2 survivors from the cockpit area of this completely destroyed flight, claiming to be from 1982, adds further questions.
Director: Shailender Vyas.
Motion Film Director
Shailender Vyas has received formal training in India. His first public work, a short film called Prashan Chinn, screened at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival and In
20 Film Festivals around the globe winning many awards. In 2006,Vyaswas awarded
with the Legislative Assembly Award for his
play, Palki, and again in 2010 with the Award of Excellence in recognition of the best film of the year for his 40-minute
/educational film, Lost.
Producer: Ritika Anand
Ritika Anand is a producer by profession and an actor and dancer by passion. Anand’s work in India includes short films, soap operas, docu-dramas and tele films, all of which address a variety of social issues in India & Canada. She has worked closely with Shailender Vyasona number of projects, including Lost, which was awarded the Award of Excellence in 2010 and Palki which was awarded the legislative assembly awarded in 2006. Anand was also nominated as 1 of 2 and the youngest ever finalist for the immigrant of distinction award in 2012 in the field of Arts & Culture.
Maadathy
Cast: Ajmina Kassim, Patrick Raj, Semmalar
Country: :Canada
Language:Hindi
Synopsis: A CBI Investigation into a recently crashed flight takes a drastic turn when they find out that JL50 is a flight that took off 35 years ago from Kolkata and then went missing. Shantunu, the CBI officer incharged of the case, has his own inner mystery, that supports the unfolding of this mind baffling investigation. Professor Das, a Professor of Physics, seems to some how be linked to JL50.The Only 2 survivors from the cockpit area of this completely destroyed flight, claiming to be from 1982, adds further questions.
Director: Leena Manimekalai
A multiple award winning filmmaker, exploring all genres deeply driven by her social commitment. Her works are officially programmed in around sixty International Film Festivals across the world winning her global recognition and praise.
Producer: Karuvachy Films
Karuvachy Films is a Chennai-based independent film production company specializing in cutting edge documentary, narrative feature films and short films as televised broadcasts, theatrical and OTT content.