Premila Puri
- Producer
- Director
- Actress
Born in Bombay ('Mumbai'), raised in The Hague, Netherlands and settled
in London for the past 15 years. Armed with a Management
Science and Law degree followed by a Masters in Marketing, Premila's involvement in films was
only as an avid lover of films till
Delhi Boom! (2007) came along. She
invested in her first home production, a low budget action feature and
subsequently travelled with it to the Berlin Film Festival, American
Film Market and eventually the Cannes Film Festival for its screening.
She was hooked not just on the beauty and passion of story-telling but
also the mechanics of buying and selling films; the tremendous platform
that a festival presents to young filmmakers and the future of indie
cinema especially the potential of the emerging indie space in India.
Premila heads up GAP2000 Films, a UK/Indian film production company,
developing and producing original Indian content reflecting themes that
resonate globally. Moving away from traditional Bollywood musicals, the
company produces commercial and thought-provoking feature films aimed
at the international market. An international collaboration was the
natural follow on with
Retardation a UK/US
co-production, to be shot in North India.