ProducerLAND's Industry Days Grants Over ₹9 Lakhs to Four Co-Production Projects Across Fiction, Non-Fiction

ProducerLAND, the producer development programme run by media and impact company Storiculture, hosted Industry Days—a two-day forum convening over 100 producers, philanthropic funders, policymakers, financiers, and creators from 11 countries.

The platform featured structured, moderated discussions covering key facets of the international co-production landscape.

At the conclusion of the two-day forum, four film projects—two fiction features and two non fiction—were selected from a cohort of 14 as recipients of the Co.Pro Access awards.

The winners in the non-fiction category include Evening’s Empty Courtyards directed by Anunay Barbhuiya and produced by Yashasvi Juyal, and Vanishing River, directed by Shamik Sanyal and produced by Paushali Saha.

My Home Is In The Hills, directed by Arun Fulara and produced by Anup Poudel, and Swarnapuchhri, directed by Ritwik Goswami and produced by Nidhi Girish Salian, won in the fiction category. All projects have been awarded a cash prize of $10,000 (around ₹9.51 lakhs), meant to be shared equally among them.

According to a press note, the winning stories delved into a diversity of perspectives, including a look into India's first female rafter navigating a river that is no longer the same, a filmmaker's return to a shifting landscape along the India-Bangladesh border, a mother's search along the Konkan coast set against a fishing village's fight over a nuclear power plant, and a family's struggle to hold on to home and to each other in the Himalayas.

These winners were decided by an international fiction jury, including Tina Trapp, CEO of European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE), Rita Meher, Executive Director of Tasveer Film Festival, and Bejon Vinod, founder of FAEM. Judging the non-fiction entries were the Against the Tide filmmaker Sarvnik Kaur, Mathieu Béjot and Mehr.

Céline Loop, ProducerLAND's programme director, reflected on the event's significance, saying that the team believes international collaboration is about "far more" than financing. "It strengthens creative economies, expands the movement of stories, and creates lasting partnerships between producers across borders.”

She believes that is what pushes Industry Days to bring together not just ambitious projects but also partners who can help shape the future of these films. “We believe this work is most meaningful when producers, markets, funders, broadcasters, festivals, and industry leaders build together, not in isolation," she concluded.