Shivani Rawat made her debut as executive producer on Today’s Special: New York Indian (2012) and her film production debut with Danny Collins (2015), starring Al Pacino. That same year, she produced Trumbo starring Bryan Cranston, followed by Captain Fantastic (2016) starring Viggo Mortensen. She then executive produced The Polka King (2017), Beirut (2018), and produced Brian Banks (2018), Wander Darkly, and The Water Man. Her notable work on The Trial of the Chicago 7 earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, as well as BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Producers Guild of America nominations.

Rawat executive produced The Ice Road (2021) and is currently developing its sequel, Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky. Under her leadership, ShivHans Pictures expanded into distribution in 2019, beginning with Hotel Mumbai and Brian Banks, through a co-distribution deal with Bleecker Street.

Recent producing credits include Love Me (2024), starring Kristen Stewart, Winner (2024), a biographical comedy about NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, The Assessment (2024) and The Wedding Banquet (2025). Shivani Rawat is a prolific film producer and the Founder and CEO of ShivHans Pictures.

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Alex Lebovici is a Canadian film producer and founder of Hammerstone Studios.

Lebovici’s producing credits include Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017), which featured Denzel Washington in an Academy Award–nominated performance for Best Actor; the sci‑fi comedy Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), which earned multiple Saturn Award nominations including Best Fantasy Film and Best Make-Up and the critically acclaimed horror thriller Barbarian (2022), which grossed over $45 million worldwide.

He also produced Sympathy for the Devil starring Nicolas Cage, and the action‑thriller Boy Kills World (2023) starring Bill Skarsgård, produced alongside Sam Raimi and Roy Lee.

His most recent and upcoming projects include the Sam Raimi co‑produced Netflix thriller Don’t Move (2024), Flight Risk starring Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Dockery, and Kung Fury 2 with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hammerstone is currently in production on three ensemble‑cast films: By Any Means, Black Box, and Out to Sea. Lebovici has also initiated a partnership with Hideo Kojima’s Kojima Productions to adapt the hit video‑game Death Stranding for film.

Max Peltz is an Emmy-nominated film and television producer, best known for producing the Netflix Original, How to Rob a Bank, which was featured in the Netflix Global Top 10 in its first two weeks.

Prior to this, Max wrote and produced In the Cold Dark Night, a feature documentary that aired on ABC, Hulu and Sky Documentaries, and later on BET+ as a four-part series. For his work on the documentary he received an Emmy-nomination for ‘Outstanding Writing Documentary’. He then produced Bad Hombres for Showtime and the cybersecurity series hacker:HUNTER, viewed by over 17 million people between 2019-2023.

Peltz is an Executive Producer on the film Balomania, which had its World Premiere at 2024 CPH:DOX to wide acclaim and has been nominated for several awards including ‘Best Documentary Feature’ at the 2025 Robert Awards. He is also a Co-Executive Producer on the three-part docuseries, Fugitive: The Mystery of the Crypto Queen, released on Channel 4 in July 2024.