Guneet Monga's Women in Film India debuts at Cannes 2025

Academy Award winner Guneet Mongarsquos initiative Women in Film India is making its global debut at the Cannes Film Festival with the launch of a fellowship for producers including Tillotama ShomeThe first initiative kicks off at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival mdash a special program spotlighting three women producers from IndialdquoWith WIF India wersquore putting real structure behind the idea of equality mentorship access and leadership pathwaysrdquo said Guneet Monga Kapoor Founder of WIF IndiaShe added ldquoThis launch is just the beginning of a long term commitment in investing in women not just for today but for the future of the Indian entertainment industryrdquoBacked by Women In Film Los Angeles WIF LA WIF India joins a global coalition of over 50 chapters across six continents working to advance gender equity in the entertainment industryTo commemorate its debut WIF India is introducing The Women in Film India Fellowship Cannes Producers Edition a flagship program designed to elevate midcareer women producers by providing them with access to the Producers Network at the Marcheacute du Film at CannesWe proudly launch Women in Film India with womeninfilmla mdash a movement to uplift women in film TV amp digital mediaOur 1st initiative the Cannes Producers Scholarship supports TillotamaShome roo_cha amp Dimpy Agrawal at Cannes2025JOIN US httpstcoNkDtDesVLmWIF pictwittercomGErEnzHsxfmdash Guneet Monga Kapoor guneetm May 15 2025This yearrsquos inaugural scholarship recipients include award winning actor Tillotama Shome who has recently become a producer with a Bengali feature film Baksho Bondi ShadowboxVeteran studio executive and creative producer Rucha Pathak who has worked on films like Paan Singh Tomar Neerja Barfi and most recently Madgaon Express and Dimpy Agarwal an independent producer known for socially conscious storytellingmdashalso a coproducer on Baksho Bondi and involved in awardwinning films like Chashma Umeed and Monica O My Darlingmdashare part of the initiativeWIF India has also awarded an Accreditation Grant to an outstanding woman producer from the Marathi film industry Shefali Bhushan whose films Sthal is being showcased at the Cannes Film MarketKirsten Schaffer Chief Executive Officer Women in Film said ldquoOur partnership with Women in Film India marks an important step toward building a strong interconnected community that supports women across all aspects of the screen industriesrdquoldquoThis fellowship is a key part of the solution to ensuring that women have equal opportunity to create high quality film and televisionrdquoWIF India is governed by a distinguished Board of Directors representing all facets of Indiarsquos film and media ecosystem including Siddharth Roy Kapur Karan Johar Faye DSouza Anupama Chopra Tahira Kashyap Gauri Shinde Nikhil Advani Jyoti Deshpande Gayatri Yadav Aparna Purohit Varun Grover Kanika Dhillon Vani Tripathi Miriam Joseph Ekta Kapoor Twinkle Khanna and Guneet Monga KapoorThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoeveratOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params