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Star Hopper Studio

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Media Production at Star Hopper
📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Star Hopper is an award-winning, trans-led creative studio and film production house in India, founded by Varsha Panikar and Asawari Jagushte. The studio develops and produces films, campaigns, and hybrid media, specializing in culturally-grounded narratives for global brands and agencies.

At its core, the studios ethos is rooted in championing queer, brown, and women-led storytelling. They emphasize a community-led, ethical production process, ensuring inclusivity is fundamental to how they collaborate and create, with a mission to move culture forward through stories shaped by lived experience.

Unique fact: The studio extends its practice into cultural curation through its blog, the "Underground Film Observatory, " and a self-publishing imprint called Riot Ink Press.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Media Production
Location
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Queer & Trans Storytelling
As a trans-led studio, their core mission is crafting narratives for queer, brown, and women-led communities, focusing on themes of identity, intimacy, and queer futurity.
Ethical Production
Their process is community-led and ethical, grounded in fair labor, sustainable practices, and creating inclusive crews and sets for all their projects.
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Career

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8-2019
Media Production
Star Hopper
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