
Sachin Jain works as a Spanish teacher in a Mumbai school. He received the Mauricio Leyton Award for his LGBT support organisation GHAR (Gay Housing Assistance Resource), mentioned in the historic Indian Supreme Court judgment reading down Section 377. Co-founder of ‘GayBombay’ in 1998, he was the contributing Hindi editor of ‘Gaylaxy’, a queer online Indian magazine, for five years. He established Anekant Productions, writing, directing and producing queer themes in plays ‘Bhasmasur’ (2018) and ‘QStory’ (2019). ‘Un Chantier d’Amour – A Scaffolding of Love’ (2021) is his debut film.