admin Mubina Rattonsey who is originally from Mumbai developes her interest in films after her graduation from college with a degree in business. Though she has non-filmy educational background, she dreamed of telling stories on the big screen. She eventually found her interest in making films and jumped right into it. As of now she has independently produced award-winning films like period-drama Before the Rains, Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra starrer Kaminey, and Prarambha – a short film for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2016, Mubina launched her own production house, Zero Gravity. Its recently established parent company, which is also co-owned by Rohini Singh, Manmeet Singh, and Armaan Zorace, has developed a slate of film and television content, including horror-themed Wraith, superhero film Gamma Man, and war-drama The Aryan Papers.
Mubina says, “I graduated in business and started working in a prestigious advertising agency in India. During my time there, all I could think of was my desire to tell stories on the big screen, in the form of movies. I looked for opportunities to work on content that had a heart and soul.” Eventhough she had no formal degree in filmmaking, she pursued a job as a runner on a film, and also had her sights set on becoming an assistant director so that she could someday direct a film of her own. However, she soon found another path – production – which was a perfect fit. Before moving to the United States, Mubina worked on films like Before the Rains, Tahaan – A Boy with a Grenade, Kaminey, Urumi, Ceylon, and Prarambha. Zero Gravity Launched in 2016, Zero Gravity “develops, packages and produces a slate of high-end, content-driven commercial projects and feature films to studios and major independent distributors worldwide.” Its recently launched parent company “houses a consortium of integrated film development, production, post-production companies.” On the core idea and motivation behind launching her production house, Mubina says, “A production house is essentially a platform that helps breed creativity at all levels. But it requires a tremendous pool of talent to jump into a bucket full of surprises.
The team at Zero Gravity Partners has united for that cause and to empower women of colour and people of all ethnicities to join and maximise their potential. “We want to build powerful collaborations with strong and effective filmmakers from India and across the globe and to push for stories that are of the mainstream narrative to bring ahead the voice of the fringes and into Hollywood.” The first film on its slate is Wraith, a horror film about a couple heading into a town where an evil presence surrounds them, and how they have to fight forces from other dimensions to survive. Others in the works include Gamma Man, a superhero film about a teenager who acquires supernatural powers when he is exposed to a meteor shower, and The Aryan Papers, an epic war-drama about a Polish musician who embarks on a journey in search of her fiancé during WWII.
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