YouTube Impact Summit 2026: Eleventh Door Studio Recognised for “Create with AI”

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, October 2, 2026 pressrelease.in - YouTube Impact Summit 2026: Eleventh Door Studio Recognised for “Create with AI”

Eleventh Door Media and Technology Pvt. Ltd., the company behind the creative brand Eleventh Door Studio, has been recognised as one of four Indian studios selected for “Create with AI,” an initiative associated with YouTube and the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT).

The recognition was presented at the YouTube Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, marking an important milestone for Co-Founders Nishith Dayal and Divesh Dayal and the entire Eleventh Door team.

At the centre of the studio's participation is CHANAKYA: THE EMPEROR’S GAMBIT, an upcoming cinematic project produced by Eleventh Door Media and Technology Pvt. Ltd. under the Eleventh Door Studio brand and directed by Nishith Dayal.

The project explores how artificial intelligence can support filmmaking while bringing Indian history, culture and storytelling to audiences through emerging creative technology.

One of Four Selected Studios

Eleventh Door Studio was selected alongside Avium Studios, Karthik Kult Kreations and Kalpanik Films LLP as part of the Create with AI initiative.

The participating studios explored how AI can support filmmaking, animation, visual effects and digital storytelling, bringing different creative approaches to an evolving production landscape.

For Eleventh Door, the initiative became an opportunity to take its AI filmmaking experiments into an ambitious historical project.

CHANAKYA: THE EMPEROR’S GAMBIT

Inspired by Chanakya and the world of ancient India, CHANAKYA: THE EMPEROR’S GAMBIT explores Indian history, culture, architecture and storytelling through a contemporary cinematic lens.

But the project is also an experiment in AI-assisted filmmaking.

Eleventh Door has explored AI across multiple stages of the creative process, including research, concept development, visualisation, storyboarding, image generation, video generation and post-production.

The goal is not simply to make a film with AI.

It is to explore how filmmakers, artists and AI technologies can work together to create cinematic worlds in new ways.

Created With AI

The project was developed through the broader Create with AI ecosystem involving YouTube, Google and IICT.

The team explored Google's AI ecosystem, including Gemini, multimodal AI models and NotebookLM, alongside Eleventh Door's filmmaking and creative workflows.

IICT infrastructure also supported aspects of post-production, enabling the team to experiment with emerging AI-assisted processes alongside established production techniques.

The resulting workflow brings together:

Filmmaking · Generative AI · VFX · Creative Direction · Technology · Post-Production

Google announced its collaboration with IICT in 2025 to support India's next generation of creators through AI skilling and creative projects, including the Create with AI funding commitment.

AI Empowering Creators

At the YouTube Impact Summit 2026, Dr. L. Murugan, Hon’ble Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs, highlighted the role of AI in empowering creators.

“The future should not be: AI versus creators. It should be: AI empowering creators.”

The recognition was presented in the presence of Dr. L. Murugan, Gunjan Soni, Country Managing Director, YouTube India, Ninad Raikar, COO, IICT, and other leaders from India's creative and technology ecosystem.

The message closely reflects Eleventh Door's approach: AI can expand the creative toolkit, while story, emotion, cultural perspective and creative direction remain human-led. The official PIB account of the Summit similarly emphasised AI as a tool for creator empowerment and responsible innovation.

Indian Stories, Global Audiences

Chanakya is part of Eleventh Door's larger interest in Indian stories and original intellectual property.

India's history, philosophy, literature and cultural traditions offer an enormous creative archive. Emerging technologies create new possibilities for visualising these stories and presenting them to contemporary audiences.

With CHANAKYA: THE EMPEROR’S GAMBIT, Eleventh Door is exploring how an Indian story can be developed using next-generation technology and presented for global audiences.

The ambition is to combine Indian storytelling with emerging technology and build cinematic worlds that can originate in India while reaching audiences around the world.

From Filmmaker to AI Creator

For Nishith Dayal, the project represents an evolution from filmmaking and visual effects into generative AI and creative technology.

Filmmaker → AI Creator → Contentpreneur

As Co-Founder, Chief Creative Technologist & Creative Director, Nishith leads the creative direction of Eleventh Door and serves as the Director of CHANAKYA: THE EMPEROR’S GAMBIT.

Divesh Dayal, Co-Founder, contributes to the company's creative, operational and strategic development.

Together, the founders are building Eleventh Door around:

Ideas. Stories. Worlds.

A Milestone for India's Creative Economy

The recognition comes as India's creator economy continues to expand.

According to the YouTube Impact Report unveiled at the 2026 Summit, YouTube's creative ecosystem contributed more than ₹18,000 crore to India's GDP in 2025 and supported more than 9.6 lakh full-time-equivalent jobs.

The report also highlighted that more than 18,000 Indian YouTube channels have crossed one million subscribers, while content produced in India receives more than 15% of its watch time from audiences outside India.

The Summit highlighted the growing importance of India's content, creativity and culture sectors, and their potential to create employment, intellectual property and global opportunities.

For Eleventh Door, this reflects a growing opportunity to build Indian stories, characters, worlds and intellectual property for audiences around the world.

More Than a Film

For Eleventh Door, CHANAKYA: THE EMPEROR’S GAMBIT is both a film and a case study in AI-assisted filmmaking.

The team is documenting how AI can be integrated into a professional creative pipeline while retaining the fundamentals of cinema — story, emotion, visual language, cultural authenticity and human creative direction.

A detailed case study of the project is currently being developed.

What Comes Next

The Create with AI recognition at the YouTube Impact Summit 2026 is an important milestone for Eleventh Door Media and Technology Pvt. Ltd. and its creative brand, Eleventh Door Studio.

But it is also a beginning.

As AI technologies continue to evolve, Eleventh Door is focused on exploring how they can expand the possibilities of filmmaking, original IP and Indian storytelling.

The ambition remains simple:

Use technology to expand what Indian creators can imagine, build and share with the world.

CHANAKYA: THE EMPEROR’S GAMBIT

Produced by: Eleventh Door Media and Technology Pvt. Ltd. Brand: Eleventh Door Studio Directed by: Nishith Dayal Co-Founders: Nishith Dayal & Divesh Dayal Created with AI with support from: YouTube, Google & IICT

Coming Soon.

AI Filmmaking Case Study Coming Soon.

About Eleventh Door Studio

Eleventh Door Studio is the creative brand of Eleventh Door Media and Technology Pvt. Ltd., founded by Nishith Dayal and Divesh Dayal.

The studio works across AI Films, Generative AI, Virtual Production, VFX, Animation, Immersive Experiences, Branded Content and Original IP.

Its vision is to build Ideas, Stories and Worlds at the intersection of human imagination, emerging technology and Indian culture.

Ideas · Stories · Worlds · AI Films · Animation · Immersive Experiences · Original IPs

Official Sources & Further Reading

For the broader context behind the initiative and the YouTube Impact Summit 2026, see the official sources below:

Government of India — YouTube Impact Summit 2026: Dr. L. Murugan's address, the creator economy, “Create with AI” films, and the role of AI in empowering creators. Read the PIB Press Release

Government of India — Official release: Additional official publication of the YouTube Impact Summit announcement. View the PIB Release

Google India — Supporting India's next generation of creators with new AI skills: Background on Google's collaboration with IICT and the Create with AI initiative. Read the Google India announcement