With a varied cosmopolitan upbringing, Phani started Firefly eight years ago with the vision of making the company a global provider of high end Computer Generated Imaging and making indigenous animated or hybrid films and taking them to the world. They are now the go-to studio for high-end CGI in Telugu and Tamil films and are recipients of the National Award and the Andhra Pradesh State Award for Best Visual Effects for the Telugu film 'Anji'.

His role in the company is to design Computer Generated Imaging (CGI) for feature films, getting approval from clients and inspiring his team to execute them.
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Spandan started his career as a cartoonist and moved on to a long and award winning career in advertising before starting Overdose Films. For the past eight years, Overdose has been actively involved in Creative Consultancy for various Indian and Multinational Brands, designing their communication strategy including advertising campaigns as well as developing new methods of communication for the social and non-governmental sector. With more than 50 advertising commercials for various prestigious brands as well as commissioned film projects Overdose has also won several Advertising Awards including the prestigious ABBY. As an alternative independent film collective, Overdose Films has been producing shorts, documentaries and narrative films, which have been screened in international film festivals all over the world.

Spandan’s first and acclaimed music documentary BEWARE DOGS premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008.  His other films, The Fiction (2008) and You Don’t Belong (2011) have been screened at NYIFF, OSIAN’s, Portobello film festival and many others.

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Having worked as a production assistant, a cameraperson’s assistant and an Agency Producer with JWT, Vandana started Volante to integrate her passion for events, paintings, performing arts, believing that in films, the ‘whole is always greater than the sum of the parts’.

Volante is a one stop shop for people who have an idea which has the potential to be something more than just a creative piece. Vandana writes scripts, lyrics, poetry and makes films. One of her projects ‘Waterproof Mumbai’ was an exhibition that included many art forms to celebrate the idea of making Mumbai as waterproof as its spirit, which never dampens ;  the proceeds of which went to a NGO working towards rainwater management.