Producers

Noelene Taula Wunum

Noelene Taula Wunum is a very passionate Papua New Guinean Teacher who has been in the field of youth development and teaching fort over two decades. She is the Chairman of Guru Foundations that owns Native Arts and Fashion Academy. She further guides and overseas all the educational initiatives of the Academy. On the creative arena all the initiatives including adverts, documentaries, short films and many more are spearheaded by her and her team. Through NAFA Productions she has ventured into various documentaries and short films in Papua New Guinea. She is also a member of the PNG Academy Awards Secretariat that is a quasi-government section formed through an MoU between NAFA and National Culture Commission, Ministry of Tourism, Papua New Guinea. Her notable achievements include spearheading the documentary on the Southern Highlands Provincial Culture that documented the trade routes and culture of Southern Highlands Province and presented to the APEC Leaders. As an expert in Mathematics and Teaching, Noelene Wunum has churned out and impacted many individuals in the country for the past two decades. She continues to inspire youngsters in achieving better heights every time. Noelene Taula Wunum will represent NAFA Productions as the Producer for the Papa Buka Movie Project and do the needful in all the activities.

Akshay Kumar Parija

Akshay Kumar Parija is a multiple time National and International award winning film producer from Odisha. Akshay Parija presently serves as board member and executive director of Blue Lions shipping group which he founded in the year 2010. Blue Lines shipping has its operation all across the globe. Being Banker Parija has served in different banks like Burgan Bank Kuwait, National Bank of Oman, Bank Muscat Forex in different senior positions. He has also served in various Banks in India during his 30 years of career in Banking. He produced many artistic films in various Indian languages. He won India's National Film Awards twice. in 2008 for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation for the film "The Living Ghost" (Jiaanta Bhoota). In 2016 Special Mention award for the film "Kadvi Hawa". He produced Dr.Biju's film "The Portraits" in 2021 which screened at many major film festivals like Moscow, Dhaka, Vladivostok, Indonesia, Spain etc and won many awards

Pa Ranjith

Pa. Ranjith is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who primarily works in Tamil cinema. He made his directorial debut with the 2012 romantic comedy Attakathi, before earning unanimously positive reviews for his second film, the political action-drama Madras (2014). He wrote and directed the action-drama films Kabali in 2016 and Kaala in 2018, both starring Rajinikanth. Pa Ranjith started his production house Neelam Productions and made many daring films in Tamil which address caste and social issues.

Prakash Bare

Prakash Bare is an Indian theater and film actor focusing on Malayalam, English and other south Indian language productions. He is also produced many important films under the production house Silicon Media.