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Flourishing Films Boards Sales on Singapore-India Company Mumba Devi’s ‘Grand Sugar Daddy’ and ‘Not Today’ at Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)
Flourishing Films has boarded sales on Mumba Devi Motion Pictures' 'Grand Sugar Daddy' and 'Not Today' Cannes.
Flourishing is focused on expanding access to Black, diverse and female-driven filmed content originating from the U.S., Africa, the U.K. and worldwide. Mumba Devi, headed by producer Sweta Chhabria and producer-director Aditya Kripalani, makes issue-based films focusing on stories that are mostly to do with gender and burning topics like suicide prevention and mental health. Mumba Devi, set up in 2016, has produced sex addiction-themed “The Goddess and the Hero” (2019) that won the Netpac award at the Kolkata Film Festival; “The Incessant Fear of Rape” (2018) where a group of women school a sexist man on what the fear of rape feels like; “Tikli and Laxmi Bomb” (2017) where sex workers decide to attain autonomy in their profession; ethnographic documentary “Portrait of a Willow Woman” (2020); and “Art Exodus” (2020) on how the pandemic displaced artists.
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