Aranya Sahay ‘s “ Humans in the Loop ” has locked in dual distribution, with Netflix streaming the film stateside from Nov. 10 and boutique shingle One Rising orchestrating a limited theatrical run and impact campaign launching Nov. 7 in L.A.

The drama shadows an Indigenous woman laboring at a data-annotation facility in rural India, where she trains AI systems — exposing the unseen human toll that undergirds the global tech industry. Storiculture and Sauv Films produced the feature, with Mathivanan Rajendran, Sarabhi Ravichandran and Shilpa Kumar serving as producers. Sahay developed the project via a Museum of Imagined Futures fellowship.

Indigenous filmmaker Bijjo Toppo executive produced and mentored Sahay, with Kiran Rao boarding as EP . Rao’s “Laapataa Ladies” represented

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