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Team
Apoorva Charan
Co-founder, Producer
An LA-based producer born in India, raised in Northern California, and who began her career as a digital producer in Singapore.
Her producorial feature debut, Joyland, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival (2022) and won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, the Queer Palm, and Best International Film at the Independent Spirit Awards (2023). The film was Pakistan's entry to the 95th Academy Awards, was the first film from Pakistan to make the shortlist, and screened at festivals worldwide including Sundance, TIFF, and BFI London Film Festival.
Her second film, Take Me Home, won AT&T's UnTold Stories at Tribeca Film Festival in 2025, the world's largest production award of 1MM USD. The film premiered in 2026 at the Sundance Film Festival in US Dramatic Competition, where Charan won the Amazon MGM Fiction Producer's Award and the film won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. It has its international premiere at Berlinale and its New York premiere at Tribeca.
An alumnus of Columbia University's MFA Film program, Charan has produced over twenty award-winning short films and served on the jury for Palm Springs Short Film Festival and the Gotham Awards. She has been a 2019 Project Involve fellow, 2020 Film Independent Creative Producing Lab fellow, 2021 Women in Film Emerging Producers fellow, 2022 Sundance Creative Producing Lab fellow, 2024 BAFTA Breakthrough, and 2024 Gotham-Cannes Producers Network fellow.
She has worked in development at Big Beach, Walt Disney Studios' live action department, and Blue Harp, and has taught as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts.
Named by Variety as one of the 10 Directors to Watch in 2023, Saim Sadiq is a Pakistani filmmaker who made history with the first Pakistani feature to premiere at Cannes.
His debut feature, Joyland, premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 75th Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize, the Queer Palm, and the Independent Spirit Award for Best International Film.
His short film Darling was the first Pakistani film to premiere at the Venice Film Festival (76th edition), winning the Orrizonti Award for Best Short Film. It also screened at TIFF 2019, won a Special Jury Mention at SXSW 2020, and was acquired by Focus Features.
His earlier short Nice Talking to You screened at SXSW 2019 and Palm Springs International Shortsfest 2019, made the BAFTA Shortlist for Best Student Film, won Vimeo's Best Director at the Columbia University Film Festival 2018, and received the Kodak Student Scholarship Gold Award.
Sadiq has created a series for MakeReady with Brad Weston and Scott Silver executive producing, and is developing the film adaptation of the New York Times bestseller "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" with Oscar-nominated director Bing Liu attached. He holds a bachelor's in anthropology from the Lahore University of Management Sciences and an MFA in film directing from Columbia University.
