Guneet Monga

Founder

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Short
Produced critically acclaimed films at international festivals
Advocate for representation of Indian women filmmakers

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Film Production expert with a focus on independent cinema and international collaborations.

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Film ProductionProducing

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About

Indian film producer, an Academy Award winner, and BAFTA nominee, and amongst the first producers from India to be invited to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Founder of Sikhya Entertainment, a Mumbai-based production house. Produced close to 30 feature films, including ground-breaking cinema such as The Lunchbox (2013), Monsoon Shootout (2013), Masaan (2015), and Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), all of which received critical acclaim at prestigious international festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, and Sundance. One of the executive producers behind the documentary short film Period. End of Sentence, which won an Academy Award® in 2019. A recipient of the prestigious French Honour "Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres". Awarded the prestigious Sloan Science and Film grant in 2019 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Passionate about issues of representation and diversity in the film industry and discovering, amplifying & distributing the work of Indian women filmmakers across the globe. Most recently, became the first producer in India to win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, for Indian produced 'The Elephant Whisperers’ (2023). Producer of India’s first high-octane actioner - KILL and thriller drama web-series, Gyaarah Gyaarah (11:11), a teenage romance titled ‘Gutar Gu’ on Amazon MX Player. Upcoming projects include and a first-of-its-kind Netflix documentary film on globally celebrated Hip Hop Artist - Yo Yo Honey Singh.

Experience

Akfpl

CEO

Sep 2009 – Oct 2013 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

Balaji motion pictures pvt ltd

Supervising Producer

Apr 2009 – Dec 2009 · 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Project 'Once upon a time in Mumbai'

Sikhya entertainment pvt ltd

CEO & Founder

Apr 2008 – Present · 17 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

BAFTA nominee and has produced notable films like Gangs of Wasseypur, Peddlers and The Lunchbox, Masaan, and Zubaan. Her 2018 production ‘Period. End of Sentence.’ won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. She was voted as one of the top 12 women achievers in the Global Entertainment industry by The Hollywood Reporter and among the top 50 Indians changing India by India Today.
Her major international film was the 2010 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film-nominated short, Kavi (2009), about bonded labor in India, directed by Gregg Helvey, and which won the Student Academy Award - Narrative. She produced Monsoon Shootout as a co-production between India, Netherland and UK and The Lunchbox, a project shown at Film Bazaar (2011); Cinemart (2012), Berlinale Co-Production Market (2012) and TorinoFilmLab (2012) as a co-production between India, France, Germany & USA.
The Lunchbox (Dabba) and Monsoon Shootout both were selected for the International Critics' Week and a midnight screening at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, respectively, The Hollywood Reporter called her "most prolific producers of a new wave of cinema" while The Hollywood Reporter's "2012 Women in Entertainment special", placed her amongst "12 international players to watch"; India Today has credited her for giving a facelift to independent cinema, and bridging "the gap between Indian films and foreign buyers and distributors."
Other films are That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011), Trishna (2011), Shaitan (2011), Michael (2011), Aiyya(2012), The Ashram (2018). She was an Executive Producer for films like Hamid (2018), Ajji (2017), Visaaranai (2015), Taj Mahal (2015) and Rang Rasiya (2008). She has also produced shorts like Plus Minus (2018), Time Machine (2016), Chakshoo (2014), Geek Out (2013) Café Regular, Cairo (2012) and Tubelight Ka Chaand (2010). Her film, ‘Peddlers’ was selected at the International Critics' Week, won rave reviews and opened new markets for Indian Cinema.

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