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Pilot

2025 / Hindi / 17m  / Narrative Short

Film Festival Selection: 

World Premiere at 20th Tasveer Film Festival (TFFM) 2025

WRITER/DIRECTOR - SONIA MACKWANI
PILOT (Short Film) by Sonia Mackwani

In an orthodox village in India, a young widow defies all norms and learns to ride a bicycle to take her son to school 20 kilometers away.

Cast:

Pallavi Kedia

K. Danish Mohammed

Kallur Basha

Kalyan Akkipeddi

M. Mujamill

G. Ganesh

K. Naveen Kumar

Lakshminarayan

Crew:

Written and Directed: Sonia Mackwani

Producers: Sadik Keshwani (Guidant Films), Sonia Mackwani (Touching Lives Films)

Associate producers: Shobitha Kedlaya, Kalyan Akkipeddi & Protovillage team

Director of photography: Jaskirat Bhatia

Production sound, Sound design and Mix: Bhargav Soni

Assistant director: Kanupriya Gupta

Assistant cinematographer and Focus puller: Parth Trivedi

Editors: Kanupriya Gupta, Suraaj Gunjal

Drone operator: Parth Trivedi

Background score composer, Producer and Mixer: Bhargav Soni

Colorist: Jaskirat Bhatia

Sound effects editor: Bhargav Soni, Harsh Solse

Art and Costumes: Aditi Kanwar

Line production and Casting: C Harinath Reddy

Protovillage team: C Harinath Reddy, Fouziya Hari, Vamsi Tadisetti, K. Naveen Kumar, Lakshminarayan, Shivamma, Shilpa, Padmavati

Camera attendant: Ashish

Boom operator and Sound attendant: Pawan Dubey

Camera equipment: Multimedia Cinegears

Sound equipment: Vedant Location Sound

Dialogue translation (English to Hindi): Bikas Mishra

Script mentor: Sebastian Stobbe (HessenLab 2024, Frankfurt, Germany)

© 2026 by Guidant Films

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