Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Tony-winning activist-playwright V, formerly known as Eve Ensler, have signed on as executive producers of Pranav Bhasin’s Oscar-qualified Indian short “We Were Here.” They join Andrew Scott as the film gears up for awards season. The New Yorker has acquired the short and will premiere it on the magazine’s YouTube channels. It launched at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, taking the Canal+ Prize.
At SXSW, it won the audience award for best narrative short along with the Redbreast Unhidden Award. Palm Springs International ShortFest named it best live-action short under 15 minutes and best comedy short, and that win made the film eligible for Academy Award consideration. Bhasin wrote and directed the mockumentary, set in a small Indian town.
Three retirees, certain that machines are stealing human jobs, mount a protest by posing as household appliances. Their campaign is thrown off course when one of their children goes to work for an artificial intelligence company. Satish Kashyap, Devendra Dodke and Arindol Bagchi star as Mr.
The cast also includes Shubham Kujur, Kalpana Gagdekar and Yash Gonsai. Gonsai produced through Sunshine Pictures alongside Dheer Momaya and Dar Gai. Aarti Lohia and SPLF Media present the film.
I jumped at the opportunity to come on board as an executive producer to amplify this creative team and ensure their brilliant, original vision gets the spotlight it deserves,” said Chopra Jonas. The executive producer roster also includes Peter S. Kim and Nalini Sharma of Basement Video, Neha Kaul, Megha Kadakia, Priya Giri Desai and Shruti Ganguly of Prism Entertainment, Shivani Pandya Malhotra, Film Companion Studios, Anjula Acharia and Pan Nalin.
Devaiah Bopanna, Earlyman Film, Rahul Bharti, Supavitra Babul and Vaibhav Bundhoo are co-producers. Bhasin, who hails from Mumbai, was directing films by the age of 13 and had made his first series, for TVF, by 17. At the Mumbai film festival, his short “Wolf of Chawl Street” took the Silver Dimensions prize in 2017, and “New Year’s Eve” was named best short a year later.
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