Speakers

Anand Gandhi

Anand Gandhi is widely regarded as a film auteur who ushered in a new wave of Indian cinema. His first film, Ship of Theseus, won the National Award for Best Picture. It was also on The Critics’ Circle, UK’s list of 15 “life-changing” films of the past century. His non-fiction production, An Insignificant Man, was India’s most commercially successful documentary film. Anand’s films have won the highest honours at the international film festivals and have been globally distributed by Disney, Netflix, PrimeVideo, and Channel4. Anand also produced the bestselling board games SHASN and SHASN:AZADI, now played in over 75 countries, and launched India’s first VR journalism platform, ElseVR.He is now creating an unprecedented narrative universe that aims to take South Asia to the world.