Just to be sure, Deepanshu Malik sent six different ideas for his film RJ for the MOFILM Cannes Video Contest, a part of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity; usually people send two. His dedication paid off. The budding filmmaker from Rawatbhata, a small town in Rajasthan, was one among the five winners who got an opportunity last month to travel to the prestigious awards ceremony in Cannes, where he was presented the award. “This is a great leap for my career. I now have work that I can show when I want to make a film,” Malik, 26, who studied filmmaking on scholarship at Whistling Woods International in Mumbai, says.

A moment from RJ