Overview

• Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal have come aboard as producers on Secrets of a Mountain Serpent through their banner Pushing Buttons Studios.
• Nidhi Saxena, who wrote and directed the film, is the first Indian woman to win Venice’s Biennale College Fund grant for this project.
• The feature wrapped principal photography and is now in post-production ahead of its world premiere at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.
• Co-produced with Vimukthi Jayasundara’s Forest Flower Films, the project highlights expanding India–Sri Lanka collaborations in independent cinema.
• Set in a 1990s Himalayan border town, the intimate drama follows schoolteacher Barkha’s emotional journey in a setting infused with local mythology and unexpected desire.