C21 announces finalists for inaugural Content India Copro Pitch
C21 has unveiled the finalists for the inaugural Content India Copro Pitch. The competition, open to early-stage scripted and unscripted series seeking international coproduction partners, attracted a strong range of submissions. From these entries, seven finalists have been selected to pitch their projects live at Content India on Monday March 16 at 17.00.
The Content India Copro Pitch 2026 introduces C21’s globally respected pitch format to Mumbai for the first time, spotlighting standout projects with international potential.
Two winners – one scripted and one unscripted – will each receive £10,000 in marketing support across C21Media’s digital, print and event platforms to help drive development and pre-sales promotion.
Previous editions of the pitch have been the catalyst for projects sourcing partners, attaching additional funding and finding international success.
SCRIPTED FINALISTS:
Dirty Minds
Locomotive Global
An Indian therapist returns home from London with a dark secret, and against the wishes of her employers, secretly begins a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) therapy clinic in Mumbai. The show follows her and her patients as they seek to resolve their various traumas which include murder, terrorism, suicide and assault. Dirty Minds is about ordinary Indians and how they are affected by extraordinary trauma. It is a show that demonstrates how morality can be thrown out of the window when human beings operate in the wake of intense mental trauma. This show is about a determined, driven woman, KAREENA KOHLI, a therapist who is willing to break the rules to help people suffering from emotional trauma – without realising that she is blind to her own demons.
Djinn Patrol
MFF&CO
In a smog-choked Delhi neighborhood along the Purple Line metro, nine-year-old Jai escapes daily hardship by obsessively watching a sensational TV crime show and imagining himself as a brilliant detective. In Jai’s world, mysteries make sense: clues add up, villains are exposed, and justice always arrives on time.
That fantasy is shattered when a boy from Jai’s basti, Bahadur, disappears in the maze of nearby Bhoot Bazaar. As fear spreads, Bahadur’s mother wants to go to the police, a risky move in a community living under constant threat of eviction, harassment, and demolition. Convinced the adults will only make things worse, Jai decides to investigate himself, pulling in his sharp, skeptical friend Pari and street-smart Faiz.
Kanpurx X Satori
Metaphysical Lab
2022: 14-year-old Ashish walks through crowded New Delhi railway station at 1am, a rucksack filled with 1.5m rupees cash on his back. He’s anxious but appears relaxed, his face masked as he enters a second-class compartment without a ticket. An old woman calls him over to sit, and he tells her he’s searching for his missing father. She blesses him.
Early morning in Varanasi’s ghats, tech and video game addict Ashish realises cops are tracking his phone. He decides to have some fun, letting them track him while playing a game on them. The video game he’s been hooked on, Kanpurx, has blurred the reel and the real.
The Age of Kali
Shibani Bathija
When an American serial killer chooses the teeming mishmash of India as his new hunting ground, a tightly wound FBI agent of Indian origin sets out to get him. The hunt throws her into the chaotic extremes of the country, unwittingly cutting open her own violent and repressed past.
UNSCRIPTED FINALISTS:
Respawn: India’s Esport Revolution
Sangram Awari
Respawn: India’s Esports Revolution charts the extraordinary rise of competitive gaming in the country. What began in cramped cyber cafés has evolved into packed arenas, and global recognition. Powered by affordable internet and rapid smartphone penetration, e-sports in India has transformed from a hobby into a viable, aspirational career for millions.
Through the journeys of three leading players, the film explores the human stories behind the headlines of young men who rose from small towns and modest beginnings to become national icons in a rapidly expanding industry.
Scary Goose
Gamers Hub Media Events
Scary Goose is a horror reality competition built around a simple but powerful question: how brave are gamers when horror becomes real? In every episode, self-proclaimed fearless gamers enter a fully immersive haunted house inspired by iconic survival horror video games. The environment is designed like a real-life game level, complete with dark corridors, environmental traps, hidden actors, unsettling sound design and unpredictable jump scares.
The Masala Quest
Sarina Kamini
Masala is more than a flavour agent. Much more. What makes masala extraordinary is the ordinary stories it contains for the more than one billion people across India’s regions. But knowledge of the art form is receding— and Indian-Australian cook, author and spice evangelist Sarina Kamini is on a bid to petition UNESCO to champion its preservation. This three-episode series documents her journey.
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