Team
Cross-Cultural Cinema and Impact Shorts
We believe in the power of film to inspire change. Through our visual art, we partner with those who—like us—are driven to make a meaningful impact on the world. We bridge the gap between reality and imagination. Our Impact Shorts elevate true stories into visual art, while our Cinema works defy borders to unite us through universal storytelling. At our core, we create for one reason: the endless human need for connection.
Awards and Accolades
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European Premiere of our second feature film BAYAAR (Dust and the Wind) at Berlin’s iconic BABYLON Cinema.
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UK premiere of our second feature film BAYAAR (Dust and the Wind)
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Official Selection for the feature film BAYAAR.
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BEFORE LIFE AFTER DEATH, Official Selection
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BIN BULAAYE, Perfect Short Award
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BREAKING THE SILENCE, Best Film of the Year
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ROSARIO, Best Documentary Film
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WABI SABI, Official Selection
Anshul Tiwari
London-based Indian-origin film director, screenwriter, and film editor. A BIFA (British Indie Film Awards) Springboard fellow, he has created three feature films, five award-winning short fiction films, and nearly fifty documentary short films.
His debut feature, Before Life After Death, premiered at the 33rd Singapore International Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix in the Asia Pacific. His second feature, Bayaar, premiered at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. His third feature, The Ghost and the Gun, had its box office release in Malaysia and is due for streamer release on Netflix in 2026.
His key documentary works include Break The Silence (Best Film, Shorty Social Good Media Award, Los Angeles and SIMA Social Impact Media Award) and Rosario (Best Documentary, IAFOR FilmAsia Japan).
Debasmita Dasgupta
An award-winning South Asian film producer and graphic novelist based in the UK, Debasmita is the Co-founder of FilmsPositive and a Producing Fellow of Produire au Sud (PAS) South Asia Film Lab under the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes, France. She manages cross-cultural cinema production in Asia and in the UK, from development to distribution. In her decade-long producing career, she has produced feature films, international short films, and a significant number of documentaries that tell stories of underrepresented communities, working with agencies such as the United Nations and the European Commission.
BEFORE LIFE AFTER DEATH is her debut feature, which premiered at the 33rd Singapore International Film Festival and at Brighton Rocks International Film Festival in the UK. The film garnered accolades from global media and is streaming on Netflix across Asia, Australia, New Zealand and on Prime Video across the UK, USA, Europe, and Canada.
Her second feature, BAYAAR (DUST AND THE WIND), is an adaptation of a play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The film is doing its film festival run across the globe. Her third feature is THE GHOST AND THE GUN, a World War II action drama, set in British Malaya in the 1940s. After its successful Malaysian box office run, the film is headed to Indonesian theatres and will be released globally on Netflix.
An advocate for BIPOC (person of colour) rights in cinema and arts, Debasmita's visual stories, including her latest graphic novels, have been published by Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Scholastic, to name a few. Her illustrated animation work has been showcased by the StoryCentre NYC and the Raindance Film Fest in the UK & Canada.
Alice Pafumi
London-based screenwriter, script editor, and producer working across short films, features, and series development, with a focus on bold, character-driven storytelling.
Her debut short film, Beyond the Final Line, won Best Short Film at the Berlin International Indie Film Festival, while her short story The Present was adapted into a radio drama broadcast on Radiophrenia Glasgow.
A graduate of the MA Screenwriting programme at MetFilm School, Alice’s work spans drama, sci-fi, magical realism, and animation. With an academic background in English Literature, she brings a strong analytical approach to script development and story structure, collaborating on international projects with particular attention to structure, tone, and character.
Elena Righi
Elena Righi is a writer and concept artist with an affinity for world-building and the darkly mesmerising. She aims to subvert genre conventions while harnessing their framework to explore oppression, religion, and the mirror-self.
With a Master’s degree from MetFilm School's MA Screenwriting program, she wrote the Super 8 short, Lemonade Stand-Off, which was selected for the BFI Future Film Festival, licensed by Screen Scotland, and had its world premiere at Cannes' Straight 8 Festival along with Dead Funny, another one of her works. She storyboarded the above shorts along with Sign Language (starring George MacKay) and Shelagh McLeod's upcoming sci-fi feature Nexus.
Her London-based psychological thriller feature, Lunatic Lords & Angel Chords (Top 70 scripts - Filmmarket Hub Feature Contest), is currently in development with Ex Animo and her fiction debut, The Weight of Knowing, was recently published and optioned by LA-based publishing and production company Syllble Studios.