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"From Bollywood to Hollywood: Guneet Monga's Oscar Win Paves the Way for Indian Producers"

 Producer Guneet Monga and director Kartiki Gonsalves took the stage to accept the honour. The Elephant Whisperers is the first Indian production ever to win an Oscar.



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Guneet Monga (born 21 November 1983) is an Indian film producer. She is the producer of the 2023 Academy Award-winning documentary short film The Elephant Whisperers. Monga is the founder of Sikhya Entertainment a boutique film production house that produced notable films like Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1, Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2, Peddlers, The Lunchbox, Masaan, Zubaan and Pagglait.In 2018, Monga was amongst the first producers from India to be inducted in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She served as an executive producer on Period. End of Sentence. which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film. Monga was voted as one of the top 12 women achievers in the global entertainment industry by The Hollywood Reporter and among the top 50 Indians changing India by India Today. In 2023, Guneet won her second Academy Award for the Netflix documentary short, The Elephant Whisperers.

Early life and education :-

Guneet Monga was born in Delhi and received her primary education at Bluebells School International and received a degree in mass communications from Madhubala Institute of Mass Communication and Electronic Media affiliated with Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi in 2004.

Career :-

In 2003, Monga interned with a production coordinator in Delhi, and after receiving her mass communications she started career as production coordinator for international productions, most notably Vic Sarin's Partition.

Monga was fascinated about film after watching her mother's friend, Anureeta Saigal, work on production for international films. She interned with Saigal and decided that this was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. She convinced a neighbor to lend her INR 75 lacs (about US$188,000 in 2007) to make movies.

She produced Monsoon Shootout as a co-production between India, Netherland and UK and The Lunchbox, a project shown at Film Bazaar (2011),; Cinemart (2012), Berlinale Co-Production Market (2012) and TorinoFilmLab (2012) as a co-production between India, France, Germany & USA.

In May 2013, when The Lunchbox (Dabba) and Monsoon Shootout both were selected for the Critics' Week and a midnight screening at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival,  respectively, The Hollywood Reporter called her "most prolific producers of a new wave of cinema" while The Hollywood Reporter's "2012 Women in Entertainment special", placed her amongst "12 international players to watch, India Today has credited her for giving a facelift to independent cinema, and bridging "the gap between Indian films and foreign buyers and distributors.

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