Climb Media is a leading production house in feature films, television commercials and short films. The company was founded in 1971 by award-winning film-maker & pioneer of animation films in India, Bhimsain Khurana. He named his company Climb Films (renamed Climb Media in 2004) after his debut film "The Climb"’s success. It was later passed on to his son Kireet Khurana, a 5 time national awardee & a high-honours graduate from Sheridan College, Canada.
In 1971, "The Climb" a one-minute-long short film from India won the Silver Hugo Award, Chicago International Film Festival rapidly increasing its public awareness of its debutante film-maker Bhimsain. "Climb Media" has seen many of these accolades since - 21 National Awards and 10 International Awards among others.
As a company Climb Media have worked on many award-winning Public Service campaigns, the latest being a series of 4 short films for Childline India Foundation on - child labour, child marriage, corporal punishment and child sexual abuse. Komal, a film on CSA (Child Sexual Abuse) won FICCI Best Animated Frames (BAF) Award, 2014. Like Sisters, a film based on Child Marriage, won the Best Public Service and Social Film Award at Infocom Assocham 2013.Education Counts won the 'Viewer's Choice' award at ANIFEST 2013.
In collaboration National Film Board of Canada (NFB) & UNICEF International for the acclaimed ‘Rights from the Heart’ series, they produced a number of award-winning short films- ‘Locked’ (1977) a film on child labour and Trade (1977) a film on child prostitution. Another recent animation film by the production house The Prince and the Magician won the 5th Mumbai International award for the best film in 1998; the same film being selected for screening in Matita Film Festival, Italy, 1999.