daya films

Your vision is our passion

Daya Films is an Independent Production company in London founded by Producer Pinky Ghundale.

With over 20 years of production collaborations, delivering innovative and diverse film works with an array of exceptional artists and filmmakers, daya films continues the passion and dedication to produce artistic non scripted and scripted works across the creative industries.

Daya (ਦਇਆ compassion in Punjabi) provides support and consultation in the form of individual production advisory sessions for emerging and mid-career talent, valuing and nurturing the next generation.

In production

NURSES COME AND GO BUT NONE FOR ME

Long form single screen film by Ed Atkins and Steven Zultanski

Screening Spring 2025

THIS IS NOT ENGLAND

Long form hybrid documentary by Poulomi Basu and CJ Clarke

HIPPIE

Debut feature film by filmmaker Grace Ndiritu

Script writing stage with development from BFI

DAUBENEY FIELDS

Debut feature film by filmmaker Ayo Akingbade in co-production with Air Street Films

Script writing stage with development from BFI

TOUCH TYPE

An abecedarian of twenty six moving image chapters from tangible to digital by Saul Pankhurst

In development

Recent projects

UNGENTLE

Single screen film by Huw Lemmey and Onyeka Igwe, 2022

Currently streaming on Mubi

ACTION > POTENTIAL

A two screen film by Sonya Dyer commissioned by Somerset House Studios, 2023

LIONS

Line producer on short film directed by Beru Tessema, 2022

TRANSPARENT

A film by Dame Siobhan Davies with David Hinton and Hugo Glendinning, 2022

McQueen

Pinky has been the long term Producer of Academy and Turner Prize Award winning artist and director Sir Steve McQueen.

Recent works:

GRENFELL

Presented at The Serpentine Gallery, 2023

SUNSHINE STATE

Commissioned by The Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2023

OCCUPIED CITY

Development Producer. Premiered in Cannes, 2023

Currently streaming on Mubi

UPRISING

Line Producer on this BAFTA Award winning BBC series, 2021

BOUNTY

Photographic series of flowers from Grenada, presented at Dia Chelsea, 2024

Pinky has produced and managed productions with:

Steve McQueen, Tacita Dean, Hussein Chalayan, Zarina Bhimji, Siobhan Davies, Michael Landy, Zineb Sedira, Martina Amati, Idris Khan, Jane and Louise Wilson, Sonya Dyer, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Onyeka Igwe and Huw Lemmey, Daria Martin, The Quay Brothers, Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair

and these renowned institutions:

The Venice Biennale, Film London, Somerset House Studios, MOMA, Sadler’s Wells, The Royal Academy of Arts, INIVA, Thomas Dane Gallery, The Barbican, Marian Goodman Gallery, BBC, Studio Voltaire, Film and Video Umbrella, The Baltic, Hangar Bicocca, Channel 4, Yvon Lambert Gallery New York, The Great North Run, Frith Street Gallery, The Royal Opera House, The Serpentine Gallery, Fondazione Prada, Imperial War Museum

Working with world renowned artists and institutions

daya holds your artistic vision in our hands