India’s Gubbara Entertainment is launching a distribution arm, timed to the world premiere of its short film “Termite” at the Toronto Film Festival and a chapter of its Kashmir feature anthology “Muhabbat Se” at the inaugural International Film Festival of Jammu and Kashmir.
The distribution push marks the next phase for Gubbara Entertainment, which is approaching its third anniversary. That effort dates to 2024, when the company set up a $1 million fund for script development at Cannes.
A chapter of the anthology will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival of Jammu and Kashmir on Sept. 8, ahead of a theatrical release in select cities via PVR starting Oct. 23. Among the anthology’s chapters is “Arifa,” directed by Rohin Raveendran.
Gubbara’s latest production, “Termite,” will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Kiterabbit Films and the Azim Premji Foundation partnered with Gubbara on the short, which comes from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Shaunak Sen (“All That Breathes”), marking his move into fiction filmmaking.
“My ambition is to create and strengthen a pipeline. A slate is pointless unless it delivers. I want everything we create at Gubbara to reach an audience. That is how an independent production company becomes a sustainable creative business. Films languishing in hard drives is tragic,” said Dimpy Agrawal, founder of Gubbara Entertainment.
