The Founding Team of Filmoney Global was invited to the prestigious BFI South Asian Film Festival in London on 10th May 2026. They made an appearance on the red carpet at one of the most internationally regarded gatherings in contemporary cinema.
The festival, organised under the auspices of the British Film Institute, holds a prominent position in the international cultural calendar – a confluence of the most creative voices in film, finance, media and the arts, celebrating South Asian stories and their increasing influence on global entertainment markets. Recognised for its focus on cinematic excellence and cross-cultural dialogue, the BFI South Asian Film Festival has established itself as a hub for creative leadership and institutional capital.
In this respect the presence of Filmoney Global had a special meaning.
As a cross-border film investment fund operating across the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and the United Arab Emirates, Filmoney Global represents a new generation of entertainment finance platforms — one built around the belief that film and television intellectual property should be approached with the same strategic sophistication, structural discipline, and institutional clarity as any mature global asset class.
Their London debut came after the platform’s recent launch announcement which placed Filmoney Global at the crossroads of capital markets, production infrastructure and global content investment. At a time of growing institutional engagement in entertainment finance around the world, the company’s festival presence underscored the rising significance of investment-centric approaches to media and storytelling.
Against the backdrop of the BFI South Asian Film Festival, the evening became more than a cultural occasion. It underscored the increasingly interconnected relationship between cinema, global capital, and the future architecture of the entertainment industry itself.
THE FOUNDING TEAM
Sidharth Jain
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES / INDIA
Sidharth Jain, based across the United Arab Emirates and India, is a film producer and media entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience across production, rights transactions, entertainment finance, and content strategy. As founder of Filmoney Ink, he has structured over 250 screen rights transactions across an international network of studios, producers, and streaming platforms, establishing himself as a recognised figure within the evolving business of global film investment and media monetisation.
Srijani Chatterjee
LONDON, UK
Srijani Chatterjee, based in London, is a UK-qualified lawyer and leading academic in law whose work spans financial regulation, commercial law, intellectual property, and cross-border investment structures across the United Kingdom and United States. With experience across wealth management and institutional advisory environments, she brings rigorous legal and analytical expertise to the governance of entertainment finance, contributing a distinctly international perspective on how capital, regulation, and creative industries increasingly converge.
Niraj Arjan
NEW YORK, USA
Niraj Arjan, based in New York, is an actor and former investment banker whose career bridges Wall Street finance and the entertainment industry. Alongside his experience in investment banking, M&A advisory and capital markets transactions, he has also had an active screen career on major international platforms including Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Disney and the BBC, giving him a unique dual perspective on institutional finance and the global entertainment landscape.
A Defining Moment for Film and Finance
The Filmoney Global founding team represents a rare convergence: a film producer with deep roots in international rights markets, a lawyer and academic whose work sits at the intersection of financial regulation and cross-border capital, and an investment banker who has also built a screen career across the world’s most competitive streaming platforms. It is this breadth — not as a branding exercise, but as a working reality — that distinguishes the company’s approach to entertainment finance.
Their presence at the BFI South Asian Film Festival carried weight beyond the occasion itself. It reflected a discernible shift within the industry: that the most consequential conversations about the future of cinema are no longer happening only in production offices or studio boardrooms, but increasingly in the spaces where creative ambition and institutional capital meet.
The economics of global entertainment are being rewritten — by the rise of streaming as a distribution infrastructure, by the growing tradability of intellectual property, and by the emergence of international co-production as a strategic norm rather than an exception. Filmoney Global enters this landscape with a platform designed from the outset to operate within it — and to do so on its own terms.
