20 th

25th Oct - 1st Nov 2018

PRESENTS

WORD To
SCREEN
MARKET
WHERE LITERATURE MEETS CINEMA
The Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star organized the second edition of
the Word to Screen Market — a much-needed platform through which content
creators in India can access the best in books that have the potential to be
turned into narratives for other media such as films, web series, short films,
podcasts, VR films.

The market is focused on facilitating deals, building relationships between both

the worlds and also charting out a roadmap that puts solid systems in place so
that there is professionalism and fairness in the processes that get established.
The core idea is to build bridges where there are none and create a path that
leads to compelling narratives on screen.

As a precursor to the Market, a Word to Screen Publishers Bootcamp was

designed especially to enable publishers to navigate better the world of
pitching, optioning and commissioning. It was a daylong event organized in
New Delhi a month before which culminated into the Word to Screen Market in
Mumbai.

KIRAN RAO ANUPAMA CHOPRA SMRITI KIRAN

Chairperson Festival Director Creative Director

WHERE Literature meets cinema!

The Jio MAMI 19th Mumbai Film Festival with Star hosted a stellar second edition of the ‘Word to Screen Market’ with an
overwhelming turnout of production houses, filmmakers, publishers and authors!

It’s a good initiative and it’s a

great platform for authors where
they get adequate chances of
reaching out to content creators.
The recommendations
shortlisted here were all very
good
-C.S.Lakshmi (Ambai) ,
Tamil Author
It’s my first time over here and I
I think you’ll have satisfied a wish I was there last time, so
hungry heart, a hungry bunch of many interesting books that I
people and that is a big thing, didn’t know about. It’s an
which is, we are looking for exciting platform and has
material to find this kind of sparked many new ideas
bonanza of so many books put
together. -Amit Masurkar ,
-Ram Madhvani,
Filmmaker
Filmmaker Ishika Motwane, Photographer and Kiran Rao, Chairperson
Amit Masurkar, Filmmaker

C.S. Lakshmi(Ambai),Tamil Author

Saugata Mukherjee, Anupama Chopra, Festival Director

Star India Content Creator and Urmi Juvekar, Screenwriter

Sonia Bahl, Author

Sonam Kapoor
Kiran Rao and Shakun Batra

Guneet Monga, Producer

Shakun Batra, Filmmaker

There were a lot of great stories.

I can only hope to keep this going
Kanu Behl, Filmmaker further and further because this
was something that was truly
lacking in our industry.ly lacking Filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Neeraj Ghaywan at the Word to Screen Market 2017
in our industry
Mihir Pandya, Scholar of Hindi Literature
-Shakun Batra , and Uday Bhatia, Film Critic

word to screen 2017

participants production houses

Amazon Andaleeb Wajid Aamir Khan Productions Kwanent

Abundantia Mumbai Film Company

Cinnamon Teal Annie Zaidi
Alliance Media and Entertainment Phantom Films
Crossword C.S.Lakshmi(Ambai)
Alt Balaji Roy Kapur Films

Duckbill Karishma Attari Cinestaan Film Company RSVP

Dopamine Media and Entertainment SA RE GA MA

Fingerprint Kiran Manral
Drishyam Films Showrunners
Hachette Kiran Nagarkar
Equinox Films Sikhya Entertainment

HarperCollins Laxmi Dhaul Fox Star India Sony Pictures (Set India)

Holy Basil Productions Star

Juggernaut Ravinder Singh
John Abraham Entertainment Viacom 18
Penguin Random House Tulsea
Junglee Pictures Vishal Bharadwaj Pictures

Rajkamal Prakashan Yoda Press Kabir Khan Productions Yash Raj Films

I am a voracious reader and it would be great to see I am a voracious reader and it would be great to see
some amazing stories manifest into meaningful and some amazing stories manifest into meaningful and
entertaining cinema. I’m really excited to be entertaining cinema. I’m really excited to be
associated with ‘Word to Screen Market’. Content is associated with ‘Word to Screen Market’. Content is
king and a powerful narrative has always been the king and a powerful narrative has always been the
foundation for great cinema. This initiative will act foundation for great cinema. This initiative will act
as a platform for publishing houses and filmmakers as a platform for publishing houses and filmmakers
to exchange creative thoughts and ideas. to exchange creative thoughts and ideas.
-Sonam Kapoor, ACTOR -ARPITA DAS

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