'YOU CAN NEVER PREDICT AN OSCAR NOD'

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She is the force to reckon with in the indie space.

She is known to meticulously pick her projects and put them on global stage.

And her effort is making India proud at various film festivals and ceremonies.

She is Guneet Monga.

Her production The Elephant Whisperers, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and distributed by Netflix, has been nominated for Best Documentary Short at the Academy Awards, and Guneet is using her creative muscle to bring the golden statue home. This isn't her first time, of course.

In 2018, she was the executive producer on the Oscar-winning Documentary Short, Period. End of Sentence.

Guneet says "When I saw The Elephant Whisperers, I had just come back from Period. End Of Sentence. I went by my intuition and was blown away by the story and Kartiki's strong visual sense."

What drew you to this project? And how did it come along?

Firstly, who can say no to baby elephants, right? Kartiki's passion and vision was a driving point for me as well.

She discovered this story and worked on the subject for over five years.

She made the trailer and took that to Netflix. Then the Netflix team and Kartiki reached out to me.

I've been on it for three-and-a-half years now.

When I saw it, I had just come back from Period. End Of Sentence. I went by my intuition and was blown away by the story and Kartiki's strong visual sense.