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The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has unveiled the full program for its third annual Industry Days forum, a two-day event designed to connect South Asian film and television creatives with Hollywood executives and companies. The forum runs April 24-25 at Landmark Sunset Hollywood.<\/p>\n
Executives and creatives attending this year\u2019s forum represent Color Creative, Film Independent, HBO, Jaya Entertainment, Library Pictures International, MACRO, Maharani Productions, Marginal Mediaworks, Netflix, NBC, Universal, Onyx, South Stack Studios, Sundance Institute and Zero Gravity Management, among others.<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Industry Days producer Megha Kadakia said: \u201cThere\u2019s an incredible depth of storytelling coming out of South Asian and diasporic creatives right now. IFFLA Industry Days is about creating the space for those stories to connect with the right partners, so they can travel, scale, and reach the audiences they\u2019re meant to.\u201d<\/p>\n Now in its second year, IFFLA Connect presents a curated group of South Asian and diasporic film and television projects and matches them with Hollywood executives who can assist with their development and onward journey. The six projects selected this year are Keshni Kashyap\u2019s \u201cThe Lie\u201d; Aranya Sahay\u2019s \u201cMayapuri\u201d; Ambarien Alqadar\u2019s \u201cNisa,\u201d produced by Neeraj Churi, Sharib Khan, Vikas Kumar and Eugene Sun Park; Abhish Raghavan\u2019s \u201cThe Reagan Doctrine,\u201d produced by Steven Snyder; Soham Mehta\u2019s \u201cRemember Ivy Court,\u201d written by Jonathan John and Mehta and produced by Rajiv Maikhuri and Craig Stovel; and Mridu Chandra\u2019s \u201cSaund vs Cochran.\u201d<\/p>\n The Launchpad Pitch Competition returns with six finalists who will present in-development projects to a panel of industry experts and a live audience, with one project taking home a $10,000 development grant. The finalists are: Amarik Singh Khosa\u2019s TV series \u201cBlind Tiger\u201d; Neha Dutta\u2019s TV series \u201cDead Serious with Maya and Momo\u201d; Monisha Dadlani\u2019s feature project \u201cThe Fiddler\u201d; Maryam Mir\u2019s feature project \u201cSapna\u201d; Raj Krishna and Sudhanshu Saria\u2019s feature project \u201cSilverfish\u201d; and Priyanka Krishnan and Raman Nimmala\u2019s feature project \u201cThottal Poo Malarum (Flowers Bloom When Touched).\u201d<\/p>\n Mentors for the competition include Tanuj Chopra, showrunner and executive producer of \u201cDelhi Crime\u201d seasons 2 and 3; actor-writer-director Agam Darshi (\u201cDonkeyhead\u201d); producer-director-writer Shruti Ganguly; writer-director Ravi Kapoor (\u201cPatel,\u201d \u201cFour Samosas\u201d); writer-director Meera Menon (\u201cDidn\u2019t Die\u201d); and Sanjay Shah, showrunner and executive producer of \u201cEverybody Still Hates Chris.\u201d<\/p>\n The One-on-One Program, a fixture of the forum since 2004, gives festival filmmakers direct access to studio, production, distribution and agency executives through a series of brief individual meetings.<\/p>\n Three panel discussions round out the programming. An animation-focused conversation moderated by Megha Davalath of Netflix Animation Studios examines how South Asian intellectual property can extend across streaming, gaming, publishing and merchandise. A gaming panel gathers developers, narrative designers and producers to consider what the interactive entertainment sector offers South Asian creators looking to build culturally grounded worlds for global audiences. A third panel, presented by Kinema, takes stock of where independent film distribution stands in 2026, with filmmakers discussing how they are combining event-based and direct-to-audience approaches with more conventional sales and streaming routes.<\/p>\n South Stack Studios will present a masterclass examining how filmmakers can sharpen and communicate their creative vision across the range of materials \u2014 pitches, loglines, decks \u2014 that determine how a project is received in the marketplace.<\/p>\n The festival also announced a change to its opening night selection: Ben Rekhi\u2019s documentary \u201cBreaking the Code\u201d will now launch the 24th edition following a shift in the worldwide release date of previously announced opener \u201cPatriot,\u201d directed by Mahesh Narayanan. Co-directed by Rekhi and Swetlana, the U.S.-India co-production receives its world premiere at the festival. The film follows Rekhi as he pieces together his father\u2019s life story \u2013 from childhood in post-independence India to a groundbreaking career in Silicon Valley \u2013 uncovering a multigenerational account of ambition, displacement and the paths forged by early Indian immigrants in the American technology industry.<\/p>\n The 24th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles runs April 23-26 at Landmark Sunset Hollywood and Harmony Gold.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles has unveiled the full program for its third annual Industry Days forum, a two-day event designed to connect South Asian film and television creatives with Hollywood executives and companies. The forum runs April 24-25 at Landmark Sunset Hollywood. 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