Born into a filmmaking family in India, Mehelli Modi came to London in the 1960s and has had a long and varied career in the music industry. However, Mehelli’s first love has always been cinema and, in 2005, he founded Second Run DVD, a company dedicated to releasing important classic and contemporary feature films and documentaries from around the world. Their catalogue is now at over 120 titles and growing, and includes the works of filmmakers such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Miklós Jancsó, Kim Longinotto, Pedro Costa, Miloš Forman, Joshua Oppenheimer, Věra Chytilová, Andrzej Wajda, Nicolas Philibert and Marc Isaacs.