Amit R Agarwal

Amit R Agarwal, founder, Popcorn Flicks and Festival Director #BNHAF Bol-News Hybrid Art-Awards Festival is Karmaveer Chakra Awardee constituted by icongo in partnership with the United Nations. He is Lord Baden-Powell National Award winning filmmaker. He was Invited as Guest of Honor to Producers' Network, Marche du Film Online 2020 - Festival de Cannes.

Starting his career as a journalist, Agarwal pioneered Cinema For Cause in India
1. Honey Kapoor Origins, world's 1st remote-filmed feature film, also, Asia-Africa's 1st mental health awareness feature film released on October 10, 2021 - World Mental Health day on Roku & OTT's worldwide

2. CoVidGo, world's 1st covid vaccine film featuring real-life doctors.

Agarwal is the showrunner & screenwriter of The Longest Running Webseries In The World "69 Opposites Attract" (2018-2020-2121) genre, bad-art light intimacy experimental satire. It is part of Doctoral Thesis approved by UNSW Human Research Ethics Committee, Australia on "Study of Film Censorship". The 'prelude' premiered, December 24, 2018; by December 2020, it did 25 million views across digital space & social-media platforms. It is a Case Study @ top schools worldwide.

On December 24, 2020 Season 1 was launched worldwide across OTT's and Roku. '69 Opposites Attract' team has been invited to seminars, did ZOOM sessions, attended by close to 25,000 film professionals & students.

Agarwal founded #BNHAF in September 2021, awarded #BNHAFaward to 40 eminent guests till December 2021 that include Actors, Sculptors, Painters, Filmmakers, Lawyers, Doctors, Hospitality, Entrepreneurs; curated and moderated Masterclasses & Knowledge Series with them.

The Inaugural physical event of Bol-News Hybrid Art-awards Festival was held on December 11, 2021.

He led International Film Delegations to various countries, successfully executed film deals. He executed 1st Indo-Kyrgyz Feature Film, in Kyrgyzstan in October 2019. Agarwal speaks @ cinema masterclasses, film forums & film events in US, Italy, Maldives, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Indonesia and India.

Agarwal conducts customized cinema programs for filmmakers and actors worldwide. He provides consultancy to film-makers, actors, create film set-ups from scratch; to succeed in an industry, that has one of the lowest success-rates worldwide.

INSPIRATION - James Cameron quote
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends or relatives star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're negotiating your budget and your fee.