Anurag Kashyap is an award-winning Indian filmmaker, writer and producer known for his works in Hindi cinema. For his contributions to film, the Government of France awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and letters) in 2013. He made his directorial debut with the film 'Paanch' and then he went on to release the critically acclaimed film 'Black Friday', a film based on the namesake book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. He then went on to make path-breaking films such as Dev D and Gulaal, Raman Raghav, Mukkabaz, Ugly, Manmarziyaan and Dobaara and Kashyap's prominence increased with the two-part crime drama, Gangs of Wasseypur. Kashyap subsequently co-produced the critically acclaimed drama The Lunchbox, and the biographical drama Shahid, the former earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language nomination. He also co-directed India's first Netflix Original series, the crime thriller Sacred Games, based on Vikram Chandra's novel of the same name.

Aparna Purohit was Head of Originals for Amazon Prime India before transitioning to the role of CEO for Aamir Khan Productions. Under Purohit’s creative tutelage, the streaming giant ticked off, among others, shows that pretty much encapsulate the idea of modern India: cricket (Inside Edge), wedding (Made in Heaven), crime and politics (Mirzapur, Paatal Lok). She was also the driving force behind the diversity initiatives at Prime Video, significantly increasing female participation in storytelling in front of and behind the camera. She has also taken Indian OTT platforms to regional audiences with shows such as Haraa, Masti's and Dhootha.

Before her time at Prime, Aparna has also worked at Sony TV and UTV where under the Spotlight banner, she was involved with a string of highly successful indie films in the late 2000s (DevD, Udaan, Shahid). When she transitioned to be a part of NFDC's Screenwriting Lab and later Sundance Mumbai Mantra Lab she was at the forefront of the development of many defining Indian scripts such as Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox, Kanu Behl's Titli, Shonali Bose's Margarita With A Straw and Neeraj Ghewyan's Masaan.

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.

Chidambaram is an acclaimed Indian film director and screenwriter who primarily works in Malayalam cinema. He is best known for his second directorial feature, Manjummel Boys (2024), which achieved historic success as the first Malayalam film to enter the ₹200-crore club and became the highest-grossing Malayalam film of 2024. For his work on this film, he was honoured at the Kerala State Film Awards, winning Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

He made his directorial debut in 2021 with the film Jan.E.Man, which he co-wrote with his brother, actor Ganapathi. Before transition to directing, Chidambaram gained extensive industry experience as an assistant director to Jayaraj and served as an assistant cinematographer to renowned professionals Rajeev Ravi and K. U. Mohanan.

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).

Juhi is among India's most coveted screenwriters. She made her feature debut by writing the story, screenplay, and dialogues for the romantic comedy Vicky Donor directed by Shoojit Sircar. In addition to winning several awards for Best Story, she was also awarded the IRDS Film award for social concern for 'Vicky Donor'. She continued to collaborate with Shoojit Sircar, writing dialogues for political thriller 'Madras Cafe', the screenplay for the comedy drama 'Piku', screenplay and dialogues for the feature October and the dramedy 'Gulabo Sitabo'. Juhi received two National Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Dialogue for 'Piku', which starred Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan, and Irrfan Khan. In 2017, she wrote the Hindi dialogues for the critically-acclaimed film The Song of Scorpions starring Irrfan Khan. Juhi has written the dialogues for 'The Sky is Pink', directed by Shonali Bose and starring Priyanka Chopra. She received the Filmfare award for Best Dialogues for the feature film 'Gulabo Sitabo', starring Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana, available worldwide on Amazon Prime Video. She has written dialogues for a feature script written by Sonia Bahl for Fox Star Studios, and most recently wrote the story for the popular Amazon Prime thriller 'Hush Hush'.

Nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar for the Pixar blockbuster "Inside Out", LeFauve won an Annie Award for that screenplay. LeFauve began her film career as a producer and President of Egg Pictures, Jodie Foster's film company. During that time, LeFauve produced films which were nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and she was awarded a Peabody for the Showtime film, "The Baby Dance." LeFauve also produced "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" which won the 2003 IFP Spirit Award for Best First Feature. LeFauve has been a consultant to Screen New South Wales and Screen Australia and has been a mentor at many writing labs, including The Sundance Labs, Cinestory Script Sessions, and the Meryl Streep Lab. LeFauve taught at AFI and served as co-chair of the Graduate Producers Program at UCLA's School of Film and Television, where she taught master level story and development classes for over seven years. Raised in Warren, Ohio, LeFauve graduated from the Syracuse University Newhouse School.

Neeraj is among India's leading contemporary filmmakers and is a National Award-winning director of the critically acclaimed Indo-French drama 'Masaan'. The film received widespread acclaim from critics, mainstream media, and audiences alike, currently among the top 250 films of all time from India. It won the FIPRESCI prize and the Promising Future prize (Prix avenir prometteur) in the Un Certain Regard section at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. Aside from feature films, Neeraj co-directed the second season of Netflix’s acclaimed flagship crime drama series 'Sacred Games'. He also directed 'Geeli Pucchi', the most critically-acclaimed segment of the Netflix anthology film 'Ajeeb Daastaans' from Dharmatic. His films have earned four Filmfare awards so far. He has wrapped shooting Season 2 of Amazon's critically-acclaimed drama 'Made in Heaven'. He is currently developing his next feature film with a leading Indian production company, scheduled to go into production next year.

RS Prasanna is an Indian writer and filmmaker, who made his debut in 2013 with a rather unconventional Tamil romantic comedy, Kalyana Samayal Saadham, a story about a man suffering from erectile dysfunction. The film was well-received by the audience and critics, making it critically and commercially successful. In 2017, the film was adapted and remade in Hindi as Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, also directed by Prasanna. The Hindi remake, which was produced by Anand L Rai's Color Yellow Productions, broke barriers and emerged as a blockbuster. Prasanna was recognised for his technical and creative prowess, which got him nominated for the Best Debut Director award in Zee Cine Awards. Rajeev Masand selected the film as one of the Top 5 films in 2017 and Prasanna was featured in Rajeev Masand's Directors' Roundtable alongside SS Rajamouli of Bahubali fame.

Prasanna has also produced and directed On A Quest, a biopic on Swami Chinmayananda Saraswathi, the teacher who inspired the formation of the Chinmaya Mission.

Sana Amanat is a Pakistani-American comic book editor and an executive of production and development at Marvel Studios, having formerly been the Director of Content and Character Development at Marvel Comics. She has worked on comics such as Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, and Ms. Marvel. Amanat is known for co-creating Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel, the first Muslim-American superhero with a solo Marvel Comics series.

Shih-Ching Tsou is a Taiwanese-American film producer, director, and actress. A graduate of The New School in Media Studies, she co-directed the film Take Out (2004) with Sean Baker, which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival. She has since produced Baker's other films Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), The Florida Project (2017) and Red Rocket (2021), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

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.