Amit Vachharajani Email & Phone Number

As a Producer, Fixer, and Director at Backpack Films, I have more than 20 years of experience in producing and facilitating documentaries, branded content, and corporate films in India. Our team's vast experience in working on all types and size of productions makes us invaluable partners on your Indian adventure. We have a knack for finding creative solutions for any production challenges that India can throw at us. I have worked with some of the top production companies, agencies, OTT platforms, and broadcast networks from across the world, delivering high-quality content that meets their vision and budget.My team and I offer complete production support to any crew that wants to film in India, from filming permissions, scheduling, budgeting, accommodation, transport, hiring talented crew and equipment, research, location scouting, sourcing and arranging interviews, to production facilitation, translation, and cultural interpretation. We also specialize in remote production, using live-streaming solutions to enable clients to film in India without traveling with their crew. Whether it is a broadcast documentary, a travel show, a food show, a natural history or wildlife film, a short film, a music video, or a commercial, we can make it happen with Backpack Films.

Listed skills include Location Scouting, Film Production, Production Managment, Production Budgeting, and 3 others.

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  Film Line Producer And Fixer

  Backpack Films

  Jan 1994 - Sep 2023 - Mumbai Area, India

  Earthshot Prize Films for Silverback ProductionsCity of Dreams Mumbai with Forest Productions, BBCTreasures of India with Bettany Hughes for Sandstone Global, C4Reizen Waes with Tom Waes for DeMensenFloortje Gaat Me for BNNVARA/Scenery ProductionsReal Sports with Bryant Gumbel, HBOAbsolutely India: Mancs in Mumbai with Thomas Brothers, ITVJamies Veg with Jamie Oliver, C4Trevor McDonald's Indian Train Adventure, ITVCruising with Jane McDonald, C5Donderen In Keulen, Woestijnvis BelgiumThe Real Marigold Hotel Season 2,3,4 BBC1Joanna Lumley's India for Burning Bright, ITVOne Strange Rock for Nutopia, Nat GeoBollywood for RAW TV, BBC1Paul O'Grady's Amazing Animals ITVFor the Love of Dogs with Paul O'Grady, ITVStory of God with Morgan Freeman World's Busiest Railway for BBC2 A Cook Abroad with Tony Singh for BBC2Dynamo Magician Impossible for Phil McIntyre Productions and Watch TVBranded content for Ikea, Rockefeller Foundation, SABIC, John Deere, Nokia, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, Morgan Stanley, BarclaysWitness for BBC World Service NewsFast Track for BBC WorldMonsoon a feature documentary film for CBC and ArteOut There with Stephen Fry for BBC 2The Toughest Place to be a Taxi Driver for BBC 2Welcome to India BBC 2An Idiot Abroad for Sky TvFrom Bihar to Bangalore for VPRO NetherlandsNetworks of Power with Sir Christopher Meyer for Sky AtlanticIndian Ocean with Simon Reeve for BBC 1Des Train Pas Comme Les Autres for TV5 MondeA Passage Through India with Caroline Quentin for Tiger AspectTheo’s Adventure Capitalists, Tiger Aspect for BBC2. Tropic of Cancer - with Simon Reeve BBC2Lives of Gandhi - A three part series for BBC Manchester, Dispatches : Mumbai Terror Channel 4/HBO Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape –Optomen, Channel 4 UK Around the World in Twenty Years with Michael Palin BBC India Reborn for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Imagine with Alan Yentob featuring Amitabh Bachchan for BBC 1