A delegation of the Producers Guild of India, India’s premier association of film, television, and digital content producers, met with the P...
A delegation of the Producers Guild of India, India’s premier association of film, television, and digital content producers, met with the President of Spain, His Excellency Pedro Sanchez, during his visit to Mumbai on Wednesday, October 29, 2024
The Spanish
President was accompanied by several senior dignitaries including, First Lady Begona Gomez, Minister for Industry and Tourism Jordi Hereu
Boher, and the Minister for Transportation and Sustainable Mobility Óscar
Puente. The Indian Ambassador to Spain, Dinesh Patnaik also attended the
meeting.
The Producers Guild
of India (PGI) delegation was led by Shibasish Sarkar, President of PGI and
Group CEO Reliance Entertainment; Aashish Singh of Red Chillies
Entertainment; Ankur Garg of Luv Films; Shiv Chanana of T Series; and Nitin Tej Ahuja, CEO of PGI; besides Akshaye Widhani of Yashraj Films who
hosted the meeting at Yashraj Studios in Mumbai.
At the meeting, the
two sides discussed ways in which there could be greater collaboration between
the filmmaking fraternities of both countries. President Sanchez expressed his
government’s keen interest in strengthening ties with the Indian film industry,
as evidenced by his taking time out to meet the PGI delegation on a very short
2-day official trip to India, the first by a Spanish President in 18
years.
In his remarks to
the President Sanchez, Guild President Shibasish Sarkar shared some
perspectives on the unique scale and multi-lingual nature of the Indian film
industry, besides sharing factors that influence Indian producers to choose a
certain country when they shoot outside of India.
President Sanchez
expressed satisfaction at the free-flowing and constructive dialogue that took
place at the meeting and said that it was only the start of a process of much
closer collaborations between the two filmmaking communities.
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