Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, Cannes Grand Prix winner for “All We Imagine as Light,” has joined forces with a roster of South Asian documentary luminaries for a pioneering initiative called Doc Producing South.

The creative producing lab, scheduled for Sept. 1-5, in Delhi, aims to nurture documentary filmmaking talent from South Asia through an intensive peer-driven mentorship program. The initiative brings together some of the region’s most celebrated filmmakers, including Academy Award nominees Shaunak Sen (“All That Breathes”), Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh (“Writing With Fire”).

“Nonfiction producing can be a long and lonely journey. With Doc Producing South, we hope to provide a space where knowledge can be shared and a support system can emerge for documentaries still in progress,” Kapadia said.

The lab will select six producer-director teams with feature documentary projects for the intensive workshop, which will cover proposal development, budgeting, financing, distribution strategies, and rights negotiation.