PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Rekha Musale has been working on more than 40 feature films, mostly produced or co-produced with Switzerland. She started working in the property dpt, and has since become one of the most sought after Art Director in Switzerland. Apart from her collaborations with her brother Kamal (Aline, selected by the Locarno International Film Festival, Curry Raclette, Looking for Rosamunde), she has been working with a great array of films and directors, Swiss and foreign. Amongst them: Agents-secrets by Frédéric Schoendoerffer, Aime ton père and Une journée by Jacob Berger, Home and L’Enfant d’en haut, by Ursula Meier.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

From Polish Polish and Swiss DOP, Piotr Jaxa, SCS, is a cinematographer and photographer born in Poland and living in Switzerland since 1982. He graduated from the Polish National Film School in Lodz and has worked as Director of Photography on fictional and documentary films worldwide, notably with old school masters Wadja, Kiewsloski and Zanussi. His work has been shown at festivals such as Cannes, Mannheim, Krakow, Los Angeles and Berlin. Piotr Jaxa has been extensively exploring the creative possibilities of digital cinematography in independent European productions for the cinema Going Private by Stina Werenfels, Hello Goodbye by Stefan Jaeger, The War Is Over by Mitko Panov, combining his profound experience of the 35 mm film camera with a passion for the new aesthetic possibilities offered by digital technology.

EDITOR

Loredana Cristelli is Swiss and Italian and has been working steadily as an editor with the best Swiss directors. She is totally dedicated to her craft and share an equal interest in fiction and documentaries. Amongst the feature films she has been involved with, one can mention: Vollmond by Fredi Murer, (Grand prix des Amériques, Montréal 1998), Namibia Crossings, documentary by Peter Liechti, La dame du Capitole, documentary by Jacqueline Veuve, Luftbusiness, by Dominique de Rivaz, Der Kameramörder by Robert Adrian Pejo, Le livre de cristal by Patricia Plattner (in Competition, Locarno 1994), Yaaba, Idrissa Ouedraogo, (Special Prize Cannes Fourtnight 1989). She is a member of the Swiss Cinema.

Art Director

Ganesh Nishad is an accomplished Indian Art Director. He holds a Diploma in Architecture from the College of Architecture in Mumbai while studying under the late Bhausaheb Hiray. He has been working in the Indian Film industry for more than 15 years. Starting a career as an intern with Mohabbatein (Yash Raj Films) he became an Independent Art Director and has worked with reputed companies like Yash Raj Films, Dharma Productions, Trimurti films, Kapoor & Kaushik Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, Ramesh Sippy Entertainment, Vijayata Films, Baweja Movies and Amitabh Bachchan Corporation. His experience with these reputed Indian production houses gave him the confidence to take up independent projects. Ganesh has then worked as an Art director for 4 movies (Bollywood Hero, Family: Ties of Blood, Dhobi Ki Dulhan Pyari Hai, and Curry Western). On top of this, he worked on over 40 commercials for international brands. He has also done the Production Design for The Great Indian Escape movie (in post-production).

Line Producer

Mukesh Kumar Singh is a post graduate in Dramatic Arts and also has qualified for the lectureship of Drama in the exam conducted by the University Grant Commission. He has acted in and directed many plays for All India Radio, IPTA, Song and Drama division of India, etc. He partners with Kamal Musale and Nupoor Kajbaje in the production house Curry Western Movies. The company also produced many short docs in India for foreign broadcasters, as well as some commercials. Mukesh was also Line Producer for the first feature film ever made by UAE named Eqaab (The Punishment), which was filmed simultaneously in three languages: Arabic, Urdu and Persian. Mukesh is also a well-known director in Indian television who has directed tv serial in every genre, including Mahabharat (Star Plus), the biggest show ever made on Indian television. He has also directed Mere Sai, Chandra Nandini, Raziya Sultan, Hanuman, Bandhan, Meera, Ramayan, Bhagya Vidhata, Dwarkadheesh, and many more.

Production Manager

Nupoor Kajbaje is a young & dynamic production manager. She comes from the media background and has completed her Post Graduation in Films & T.V. with specialisation in Direction. She started her career working as an Assistant Director for a couple of Regional and Bollywood films in India and gradually then started working and handling film production. She has joined Curry Western Movies in 2012, where she works ever since. Nupoor has been organising shooting with various foreign productions and broadcasters (Endemol Europe, Swiss TV), as well as in-house features (Millions Can walk, Bumbai Bird, Curry Western), short docs and commercials. Nupoor is handling the production management of our next movie in preparation, Kavita and Teresa, an epoch biopic of Mother Teresa, to be shot in Kolkata next year.

SOUND RECORDIST

Eric Ghersinu is a sound recordist who worked with several well known Swiss directors. He is know for his work in: L’enfance d’Icare by Alex Iiordachescu, Romans d’ado by Béatrice et Nasser Bakhti, La traductrice by Elena Hazanov, Anomalia (TV serie by Pilar Anguita-MacKay) and recently Docteur Jack by Pierre-Antoine Hiroz and Benoît Lange.

 SOUND MIXER AND EDITOR

François Musy worked on more than 200 movies, from directors as diverse as Manoel de Oliveira, Olivier Assayas, Tony Gatlif, Claire Simon, Cristi Puiu, Elie Chouraqui, Barbet Schroeder, and Jean-Jacques Annaud. His collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard, the doyen of the Nouvelle Vague, spans over two decades and more than twenty films, including «Passion» (1981), «For Ever Mozart» (1996), and «Film Socialisme» (2010). With his partner Gabriel Hafner, they won two French Cesar, for “Quand j’étais chanteur” (2007), and for “Marguerite” (2016), both films by French director Giannoli. They have been nominated 4 other times. One of their last gig for sound recording and design is the Spanish blockbuster “La Reina de España” (2016) by Fernando Trueba with Penélope Cruz.    

SOUND MIXER AND EDITOR

Renaud Musy first assisted during 14 years François Musy by Nos Sons Mix before he started working as sound mixer and editor for NSM. He has been involved in several films from Swiss and foreign directors as for example :La Reina de España (2016) by Fernando Trueba, La séparation des traces, documentary by Francis Reusser (2018) and Titeuf le film by Zep (2011).  

Make-up & Special Fx

Connie Sacchi is a complete make-up professional, who is also versed in doing her own special effects and prosthetics. She has been working since 1997 in over 15 Swiss features and TV movies, (Clandestins, Ernstfall in Havanna, Clara und Das Geheimnis Der Bären, North Face) and most recently on the series The Swiss and Private Banking. She lives between Switzerland and Tanzania.

1st Ass. Director

Harsh Mainra has worked with different production companies, first as intern (Peepli Live), then as production assistant (Rajneeti). He worked especially with Prakash Jha Productions for five feature films (Aarakshan, Chakravyuh, Satyagraha and Lipstick Under my Burkha). He moved from Production Assistant up to First Assistant Director between 2009 to 2015, working for Curry Western Productions, Click-Flick Films, Makbrand and Sharvani Productions, to name but a few.

Line Producers UK

Pinch Media is a film company set up in 2010 by director Mirko Pincelli and producer Enrico Tessarin. In 2018, Winnie Wong joined Pinch Media as business development director. Over the last 8 years, Pinch Media has directed, written and produced 3 feature documentaries, 1 documentary series, and 2 feature films ( The Habit Of Beauty, in 2015  was released to critical acclaim in Italy and Spain and has traveled to 24 film festivals). Pinch Media has also produced, co-produced, line-produced 5 more feature films and 3 documentaries, including co-productions with Italy, Ireland, China, India, Switzerland, Malta, Portugal, Bosnia Herzegovina and participating in over 40 festivals, winning 7 awards and 5 nominations.