Key features include a tailored screenwriting curriculum, one-on-one project consultations, peer-to-peer collaboration, and industry-focused masterclasses.
Learn more about the Fellows and their projects below.
Watta (they/them) is a Delhi-based writer-director and poet.
Clockwise Top L-R: Anureet Watta, Ashutosh Shankar, Shubham Negi, Tejas Shende, Abdul Rehman Shah and Samah MeghjeeCourtesy
They were previously a Writers INK Screenwriting Lab Fellow and their work has been featured on BBC Radio.
This project is developed with a co-writer, Ayaan.
Shankar (he/him) is a queer, Dalit filmmaker from Pune, Maharashtra.
His short film,Tara, received the 2023 Kashish Q-Drishti Runners-Up Grant.
He has been part of QueerFrames Screenwriting Lab 2023 and the Soho House OWN Academy Mentorship Program 2024.
Negi (he/him) is a writer-director and poet from Himachal Pradesh.
Shende (he/him) is a filmmaker from Satara, Maharashtra.
He studies Screenwriting at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.
Shah (he/they) is a filmmaker raised in Saudi Arabia and based in Pakistan.
They are pursuing a bachelors in Film and TV at the National College of Arts in Lahore.
