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Prime Focus revealed strong growth in Q1 FY27 with a 24% YoY revenue increase, driven by key tentpole projects and expansion into AI-driven content creation. The company highlighted strategic partnerships and investments in Brahma AI, positioning itself for scalable growth across media, healthcare, and sports sectors.
Scale of reported figures
Key financials
| Revenue | ₹1,267 crore | YoY |
| EBITDA | ₹301 crore | YoY |
Segment commentary
Creative AI/Technology Production
Expansion into AI-driven content creation with Brahma AI, including digital humans and voice AI.
Global Footprint
Competitive advantage from a large India-based workforce enabling global service delivery at lower costs.
Guidance & outlook
- Robust YoY revenue growth expected to continue.
- Focus on debt reduction with concrete steps underway.
Key takeaways
- Strong financial performance in Q1 FY27 with 24% YoY revenue growth.
- Expansion into AI-driven content creation through Brahma AI is a key growth driver.
- Strategic partnerships and investments are positioning the company for scalable growth across multiple sectors.
Risks flagged
- Potential risks from high leave provisioning impacting QoQ revenue.





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August 06, 2026
To, T o ,
National Stock Exchange of India Limited BSE Limited
Listing Department, Listing Department,
Exchange Plaza, Bandra Kurla Complex, Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers, Dalal Street,
Bandra East, Mumbai – 400 051 Mumbai – 400 001
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Sub: Investor Presentation Q1 FY 2027
Dear Sir/Madam,
With reference to the above captioned subject, please find attached herewith the Investor Presentation –
Q1 FY 2027.
The intimation is also being made available on the website of the Company at www.primefocus.com
This is for your information and records.
Thanking you,
For Prime Focus Limited
Parina Shah
Company Secretary and Compliance Officer
Encl: a/a
KEY STATS
10,100+ c.90% c.94%
Global Revenue from Revenue
Employees (c.80% recurring customers ex-India
based out of India)
c.$1bn INR 4,676cr INR 1,267cr
Order book & visible FY 2026 Q1 FY 2027
pipeline for FY27 and Revenue (30% YoY Revenue (24% YoY
beyond growth) growth)
24% c.$100m 8 VFX Oscars
Q1 FY 2027 EBITDA Brahma AI Revenue 7 in the last 10 years
Margin annual run-rate
222
INTEGRATED PLATFORM DRIVING SCALABLE GROWTH
VERTICALS
CREATIVE AI/ TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTION
● World’s No. 1 independent VFX and ● Secure, end-to-end enterprise content platform ● Selective strategic co-productions
animation services provider with top tier studios and film makers
● Brahma AI has 3 key product offerings:
● Premium Film and Episodic ● Prime Focus group has been able to
● BRAHMA AI CORE: AI-native infrastructure for
Visual Effects leverage into its relationships with
enterprise content libraries, governance and
studios and filmmakers to partner on
● Key creative partnerships with workflow orchestration
tentpole projects
the world’s biggest studios
● BRAHMA AI STUDIO: AI-native content creation
and directors ● Additional VFX & animation services
platform including digital humans and voice AI
revenues create a natural hedge for
● Expansion beyond film and TV
● BRAHMA AI Labs: Innovation and ecosystem
content investments
into Theme Parks, Digital Concerts,
layer enabling co-innovation with strategic
Immersive Experiences and Games
partners and expanding platform distribution
3
A GLOBAL FOOTPRINT ADVANTAGE
Prime Focus Limited’s global footprint provides a massive competitive advantage, allowing the company to
provide services worldwide and at a significantly lower cost due to a large India-based workforce
10,100+ 24
EMPLOYEES LOCATIONS GLOBALLY
LONDON
LEEDS BUDAPEST MOHALI
SOFIA
VANCOUVER
NOIDA
PATNA
BARCELONA
RAJAHMUNDRY
MONTREAL
KOLKATA
TORONTO
NEW YORK
VISAKHAPATNAM
CHENNAI
HYDERABAD
BANGALORE
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
ABU DHABI GOA
LOS ANGELES
MUMBAI
SYDNEY
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DNEG IS RECOGNIZED FOR ITS GLOBAL,
PREMIUM CONTENT
25 YEARS
OF CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS
80+
DNEG has won many prestigious industry awards over recent
years, further enhancing an already stellar reputation
Industry leading
VFX Supervisors
8 8 26 4
ACADEMY BAFTA VISUAL EFFECTS PRIMETIME
AWARDS AWARDS SOCIETY AWARDS EMMY
AWARDS
INCEPTION INTERSTELLAR BLADE RUNNER FIRST MAN TENET DUNE: PART DUNE: PART CHERNOBYL THE LAST OF DUNKIRK THE LORD OF HARRY
2049 ONE TWO US THE RINGS POTTER
5
Movie Logo
The Odyssey Universal
Masters of the Universe Amazon
Citadel Amazon
Star City Amazon
Cocktail 2 Maddock Films
Moana Walt Disney
For All Mankind Apple TV+
Mortal Kombat 2 Warner Bros
Supergirl Warner Bros DNEG CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN ITS
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP POSITION
Movie Logo RECENT PROJECTS DELIVERED IN PRODUCTION SHOWS
AB3 Sony
Ramayana Prime Focus Studios
Cocomelon Flywheel
Animal Friends
Coyote is Acme Ketchup
Rings of Power Amazon
Blade Runner 2099 Amazon
Cat in the Hat Warner Bros
Bad Fairies Warner Bros
Street Fighter Legendary
Klara and the Sun Sony Pictures
TOXIC
7
BRAHMA AI IS THE LEADING AI-NATIVE
ENTERPRISE CONTENT PLATFORM
Highest Fidelity Output Combined with Enterprise-grade Trust Infrastructure
STUDIO
AT A GLANCE
ATMAN VAANI IDEATION AGENT
100M+ >60
Photoreal Digital Avatar Face & Voice Localization Concept Creation
Assets Home Grown
Customizable Identity Translation & Lip-Sync Storyboards
Managed AI engines
Governance Built-In Multilingual Voice Cloning Localization Agent
100
18+
Petabyte
Patents CORE
Archives
INGEST & CONTEXTUALIZE MACHINE WISDOM AGENTS
10M 8x
Multi-modal Machine Wisdom Conversational Search
VOD Oscar Winner
Assets Heritage
Categorizing Compilations Compliance Database Integration
RBAC
C2PA ENTERPRISE DATA FOUNDATION
Policy
Watermarking
Enforcement
Videos Documents Photos Reports Guidelines Databases Audio & Speech
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8
Trust
Infrastructure
Category-defining
AI Content
Creation Engines
Enterprise Content
Operating System
Deeply Grounded
Into Enterprise
Data & Workflows
BRAHMA AI: KEY Q1 FY27 HIGHLIGHTS
Strategic partnership Key implementations First Southeast Asian Healthcare Sports extended Google Cloud
with Hakuhodo completed and taken customer taken from deployment into team level partnership
Technologies to into production at The signature to live transitioning into content creation, progressing, with
develop, Weather Channel and operation within a single enterprise with a new joint co-innovation
commercialise and
WNET in the United quarter, with BRAHMA deployment, with engagement on interactive digital
deploy high fidelity
States. Both AI Core AI use cases Phase 1 complete commencing in humans initiating
digital humans at
broadcasters now run now in production at at a leading the quarter
enterprise scale across
BRAHMA AI Core for GMA in the Philippines, healthcare institute
Japan and APAC
media asset establishing a delivery
management and reference in a new
media supply chain regional market
99
BRAHMA AI - MEDIA USE CASES
● The digital likeness was built using ATMAN models trained on
BRAHMA AI delivered the digital
historical footage and audio, broadcast on a BS Nippon TV special in
likeness of Japanese singer and
January 2026 with full estate approval
actress Hibari Misora for Hakuhodo
● The project proved BRAHMA AI can operate at national broadcast
and BS Nippon TV, and has now
standard in one of the world’s most rights sensitive cultural markets,
signed a strategic partnership with
which was the qualification the market demanded
Hakuhodo Technologies covering
Japan and APAC ● BRAHMA AI provides the core ATMAN technology and leads
development, including interactive models
● Both broadcasters now run BRAHMA AI Core for media asset
management and media supply chain, with archives migrated and
BRAHMA AI delivered and took
integrated into daily production
into production major BRAHMA AI
● Includes BRAHMA AI’s first large scale implementation inside a
Core implementations for The
newsroom ecosystem, capable of processing up to 40 concurrent
Weather Channel and WNET in the
live streams, moving the platform from archive management into the
United States
operational core of daily broadcast
● Opens news and live production, the highest volume and most time
critical category in broadcast, as a repeatable market across the
broadcaster base
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BRAHMA AI - HEALTHCARE AND SPORTS
USE CASES
● Digital humans created for 40 physicians as of now following a
BRAHMA AI delivered Phase 1 of a
HEALTHCARE
dedicated capture phase
digital physicians programme for a
leading healthcare institute, now ● Each digital human is a reusable enterprise asset generating
recurring platform consumption, with expansion available across the
running as an enterprise
institution’s wider clinical and education base
engagement
● The deployment becomes the reference case across the broader
healthcare and pharma vertical
● BRAHMA AI Core operates as the media asset management and
distribution layer across 75 years of video and 65m images,
SPORTS BRAHMA AI delivered BRAHMA AI
connected into more than ten league systems and handling over
Core for the NBA at league level,
10,000 hours of new media each month
and has now commenced digital
human creation for one of the ● Engagement commenced in the quarter with one of the league’s
franchises for digital human creation through BRAHMA AI Studio,
league’s franchises.
delivered in cohorts of ten per quarter
● Further workstreams under discussion at league level across
archive activation and content automation
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PRIME FOCUS STUDIOS
DIWALI 2026 CHRISTMAS 2026 EARLY 2027 EARLY 2027
EXPANDING GLOBAL
ANIMATION PRESENCE
● Prime Focus Studios has
partnered with SETT (a Spanish
public investment agency) to
invest in ‘Anima Kitchent’ to
produce multiple animation
movies
○ Anima Kitchent is a prominent
Spain-based animation studio
● Prime Focus Studios to own 51%
stake in Anima Kitchent
RAMAYANA THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 3 ANIMAL FRIENDS COCOMELON THE MOVIE ● Prime Focus’ animation arm to
also enter into a multi-year
Producing the biggest Partnering with Paramount, Warner Bros./Legendary Universal/Dreamworks/
services contract for the movies
budget Indian film ever Rovio, SEGA, Flywheel, One Cool Entertainment/Maximum Effort Flywheel/Moonbug
Group, & dentsu
RELEASES DIWALI 2026 RELEASES DECEMBER 23, 2026 RELEASES JANUARY 22, 2027 RELEASES FEBRUARY 19, 2027
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RAMAYANA - COMMERCIAL MOMENTUM FROM
OUR STUDIO INVESTMENT
STRONGEST ENTERTAINMENT THE BIGGEST INDIAN
FEES
ALLIANCES FILM TRAILER LAUNCH
● Sony Pictures comes onboard
● 1BN+ views within the first 7 days
for global theatrical distribution
● At par with global franchises such as
(excluding India)
Spiderman and Avengers
○ First Indian film to secure
a place on the Hollywood
theatrical landscape at TAKING RAMAYANA GLOBAL.
this scale
● Total negotiated fees: US$
○ Estimated 50,000+ screens SHOWCASE AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON
3.15 m for Banks and for
across 100+ theatrical
● Largest-ever global showcase for an [US$] Legal firms
markets worldwide
Indian film at San Diego Comic-Con 2026.
● Dharma Productions joins as the ● Mandated Lead arrangers:
India (ex-South) Distribution Partner ● IGN and Fandom partnerships 0.75% (Natwest and
● T-Series leads the film's Music & ● Hall H presentation, the festival's flagship HSBC)
Audio across India
stage for the world's biggest studios drew a
● Lead Arrangers: 0.625%
● Other distribution and digital rights
crowd of 5,000+
(ABN Amro, Citi, FAB
under negotiations
and IFC)
● Others: 0.5% (ING, NBC,
RBC and Santander)
● Legal & One-off fees: [ ]
(Latham Watkins & Cahill)
1133
RECURRING REVENUE STREAMS FROM THE
WORLD’S LARGEST CONTENT CREATORS
% REVENUE FROM RECURRING CUSTOMERS(a) PFL Group Order Book and
Visible Pipeline(b)
Contracted & Confirmed Highly Visible Pipeline
c.$1bn
Order book & visible pipeline for
FY27 and beyond
Additional addressable market revenue opportunities of $270 mn+
Note: FY ending March 31st.
(a) % of total in-year revenue from customers
(b) Order book and pipeline defined as contracted and confirmed revenue and revenue from highly visible pipeline of projects. 14
ROBUST YoY REVENUE GROWTH
INRcr Q1 FY27 Q1 FY26 YoY Q4 FY26 QoQ
● Q1 FY27 Revenue growth of c.24% YoY
Revenue 1,267 1,023 23.8% 1,384 (8.5%) driven by ramp up in key tentpole projects
- Working days in Q4 FY is lower compared to Q1
- AMJ always has high leave provisioning. Leave accruals increase Personnel Cost (844) (653) 29.4% (777) 8.7% ● EBITDA growth of c.23% YoY in line with
during this quarter. JFM there is a huge reversal of lease accrual
the revenue growth
Employee Cost (752) (589) (684)
- AMJ new show starts and so headcount ramp-up
● Revenue declined 8% QoQ given the fact
- supervision overhead expenses Other Direct Cost(1) (93) (63) (93)
that Q4 is typically the biggest quarter of
- In Q4FY26 there was leave accruals which benefitted us then and now
Indirect cost (121) (126) (119) the year in lieu of summer releases
that has been reversed
EBITDA 301 244 23.4% 488 (38.3%) ● Personnel Cost increased c.29% YoY driven
by headcount scale up across geographies
EBITDA Margin 23.8% 23.9% 35.3%
to deliver marquee projects such as
Other Income 12 8 3
Ramayana 1 and Dune 3
D&A (179) (133) (218)
● Q1 FY26 included an exceptional FX gain of
Interest (126) (114) (148) INR 159cr, primarily driven by exchange
Profit before Tax (before gains on foreign currency-denominated
9 5 61.8% 126 (93.3%)
Exceptional Items and FX) borrowings
Exceptional Items (66)(2) 0 (6)
● Exceptional items of INR 66cr was primarily
FX gain / (loss) 25 159 (38) on account of the settlement in relation to
the NCLT proceedings
Profit before Tax (33) 164 82
○ Q1 FY27 Net Profit excluding the
Tax (13) (54) 36
exceptional items is INR 20cr
Net Profit (46) 110 118
Note: (1) Includes Technician fees and Technical service cost.
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(2) Includes a) INR 71cr towards NCLT proceedings related settlement and b) INR 6cr net gain in relation to JV/subsidiary.
BENEFITING FROM STRONG TECH
INDUSTRY TAILWINDS AND BACKBONE AND
WELL-POSITIONED FOR WORLD CLASS AI
GROWTH CAPABILITIES
DEEPLY EMBEDDED
GLOBAL LEADER IN VFX IN CONTENT
AND ANIMATION SERVICES ECOSYSTEM
CONCRETE STEPS FOR
DEBT REDUCTION
UNDERWAY
KEY
STRENGTHS
HIGHLY RECURRING
EXPERIENCED
AND VISIBLE
AND DEDICATED
REVENUE BASE
MANAGEMENT TEAM
DIVERSIFIED REVENUE ATTRACTIVE FINANCIAL
STREAMS CONTRIBUTING PROFILE: GROWTH AND
NORMALISED NET WORKING OPERATING CAPITAL DAYS (NORMALISED OPERATING)
TO GROWTH PROFITABILITY
CONCRETE STEPS FOR
DEBT REDUCTION
68 84 60
UNDERWAY
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