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BENJAMIN ANDERSON
Last year, Benjamin Anderson joined forces with esteemed international showrunner Simon Mirren to launch Case Closed Entertainment. With a focus on creating writer lead productions in local languages around the world. Their process-based approach of empowering storytellers to run their shows has grown significantly. Currently, Case Closed is in development on eight series in India, APAC and EMEA.
Anderson has just completed two anthology series, The Rule’s Of Crime based on true crime author Ann Rule’s library for A&E and the tv adaptation of Urban Legend for HBOMax with Eli Roth.
Anderson is an advisor to several media companies guiding them on international and domestic SVoD strategy and global business development. He spent 12 years at Phoenix Pictures, where he served as executive vice president of development and production. Anderson oversaw the company’s film and television slates, developing and producing several projects including The 33, The Promise, and National Geographic’s The Long Road Home as well as managing its relationships in China and Japan.
Before Phoenix, Anderson was an entertainment lawyer
HANSAL MEHTA
Hansal Mehta is a film director best known for Shahid (2013), Citylights (2014), Aligarh (2016), Omertà (2018) and Scam 1992 (2020). He is known for films that depict social and political realities in deeply polarised and troubled times. His films are remarkable for their understanding of characters and their worlds, while telling important stories. His films Shahid (2013) and Omertà (2018) premiered as official selections at different editions of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Aligarh (2016) a moving tale about a professor suspended by university for being gay premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2015. He won the National Award for Best Direction in 2014 for his film Shahid.
KARAN ANSHUMAN
Karan Anshuman (b 1980) is an Indian film writer, director, and producer. He is best known as the creator and director of Emmy-nominated drama Inside Edge, India's first OTT series that was Amazon Prime's first Indian original series. He is also the creator, director, and writer of Rana Naidu and Mirzapur and the director and writer of Bangistan, his film debut.
Anshuman was raised and is based out of Mumbai. He studied filmmaking as an undergrad in the United States. He was also a film critic for Mumbai Mirror in the early 2010's.
PRASHANT NAIR
Prashant Nair is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 2015 feature film Umrika, starring Suraj Sharma and Tony Revolori, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award. His latest feature, Tryst With Destiny, premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival where it won the Best Screenplay in an International Narrative award. He was also the showrunner of 'Trail By Fire' show released on Netflix.
SIMON MIRREN
Simon Mirren is a British television writer and producer. Simon Mirren began his career writing for British series like medical drama Casualty, spy thriller Spooks and Waking the Dead. He then moved on to writing and producing for American series Without a Trace and Third Watch. He then became a producer and writer for the procedural Criminal Minds.
Mirren co-wrote and produced the television series Versailles, dramatizing the life of Louis XIV of France. The first season of Versailles received mixed to positive reviews from critics
SUPARN VARMA
Indian writer and director Suparn Verma was born on September 24, 1974, in Bombay, Maharashtra. With an illustrious career spanning over two decades, Verma is known for Janasheen (2003) and the critically acclaimed web series, The Family Man (2019). His most recent project, Rana Naidu (2023), has topped the Netflix charts, proving to be yet another hit in Verma's repertoire.
Initially starting out as a journalist, Verma made his directorial debut in 2005 with the film Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena. His subsequent works include Acid Factory (2009) and Aatma (2013), which marked his directorial comeback.