Oscar-Winning Producer Guneet Monga Kapoor on Genre Pivot, Women in Film India at Cannes: ‘I Am Ambitious, and I’m Not Scared About That Ambition’

By Naman Ramachandran

Naman Ramachandran

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A year after founding Women in Film India, Guneet Monga Kapoor – whose “The Elephant Whisperers” took the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film at the 2023 Oscars – was at Cannes with four scholarship recipients in tow and a producing slate that signals a deliberate move into genre cinema, women-led franchises and, eventually, gaming.

Monga Kapoor brought two scholars to the Cannes Film Market‘s Producers Network and two to its Impact Lab, through a formal tie-up with the market. The initiative, backed at Cannes this year by Jio Studios and clothing brand Rareism – part of the House of Rare group – received more than 200 applications for the four places. Women in Film India, launched during Cannes 2025, has reached 3,500 members in its first twelve months.

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