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Payal Kapadia joins South Asian documentary collective
Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan co-founded Doc Producing South to fill a gap in the industry, Variety reported.
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Nandika Chand - Wed, 23, Apr 2025
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Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia has joined the pioneering initiative ‘Doc Producing South’ that aims to nurture documentary filmmaking talent from South Asia. This creative producing lab is bringing together the region’s most celebrated filmmakers like Shaunak Sen of ‘All That Breathes’ fame and Peabody-award winner Sushmit Ghosh.
Kapadia told Variety that with Doc Producing South, they hope to provide a space where knowledge can be shared and a support system can emerge for documentaries still in progress. Doc Producing South, an initiative that supports documentary filmmakers through an intensive peer-driven mentorship program, will be held in Delhi from Sept. 1 to 5.
It will select six producer-director teams with feature documentary projects for the intensive workshop. The program will cover proposal development, budgeting, financing, distribution strategies, and rights negotiations. Moreover, it will feature in-person training and continued online mentorship which will extend through July 2026.
Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan co-founded Doc Producing South to fill a gap in the industry. Dutta, whose film ‘Nocturnes’ premiered at Sundance 2024 in the World Cinema Documentary Competition, told Variety that there was a dearth of creative producing talent in South Asia. He said the initiative will bridge this gap and create capacity among the filmmaking community of non-fiction producers.
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Srinivasan shared that there are different ways to challenge the status quo of colonial and exploitative structures in the world. She believes that making documentaries is one such way, and creating forums of support for fellow filmmakers in South Asia is another.
Arya Rothe, the co-founder of NoCut Film Collective and an Indian filmmaker, highlighted that the documentary filmmaking landscape in South Asia has been shifting. She said it has become urgent to build producers within the countries in the region and explore funding models that make them more self-reliant.
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