Aarsha Mukherji is a second-year student at New York University, pursuing a degree in Theatre. She has been acting, singing and dancing ever since she was little. During her free time, she likes to play calming video games, crochet and spend time with her dog, Kutkut. Extremely passionate about climate change and saving the environment (and a proud vegetarian for the cause), Aarsha believes in using art and media to bring awareness to the issue in hopes of inspiring action.
Aditi Chitre is an animation filmmaker. An alumna of the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda, she has been exploring the animation medium through her location as a painter.
Balaram J is a writer, designer and independent filmmaker from Kerala, India. He is a Communication Design graduate from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He created animation for the visionary filmmaker Lijo Jose Pellissery's feature films Jallikattu (2019) and Churuli (2021). His thesis film 'Story of a beginning' (2020) talks about differences in beliefs and the importance of accepting them as they are. The film traveled to more than 50 international film festivals.
Emmanuel Cappellin is an associate producer at Pulp Films where, over seven years, Cappellin has been tirelessly directing Once You Know, his first feature-length documentary for the big screen. After growing up in France and the US, studying environmental sciences (McGill University, Canada), and Producing & Directing (Berkeley Digital Film Institute, California), Emmanuel chose filmmaking to creatively explore the complex relationship between humans and planet Earth.
Giridhar Nayak is a documentary director and cinematographer from India. His work revolves around human-interest stories and conservation. His recent film - ‘dhīvaraḥ,’ is a short documentary that explores how climate change and industrial fishing practices are causing challenges that intersect with faith and work within fishing communities in Karnataka, India. Premiered at the 75th Festival de Cannes under American Pavilion’s Emerging Filmmakers Showcase, was selected for the 2022 Cannes Court Métrage, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Student BAFTA Award. Giridhar is also an American Society of Cinematographers Documentary Award Nominee.
Jordan Brown is an activist, artist, musician, independent film-maker and freelance journalist whose work focuses on the interface between the dominant culture and the real impact on people, society and the environment. Blending his proficient talent for technical production in many fields, with a passion for deep and meaningful artistry that informs and inspires radical social change, his work traverses some of the most important issues of our time: climate change, corrupt and rapacious corporate power, capitalism and the surveillance state, resistance culture and political protest, real environmentalism, critiquing digital technology, and the technoculture.
Julia Haslett is a British-American filmmaker who makes expressionistic documentaries about contemporary and historical subjects. She is particularly interested in questions of empathy, attention, and the complex dynamics of bearing witness. She is producer/director of the highly acclaimed Worlds Apart series about healthcare inequities in the US, and producer of the companion documentary Hold Your Breath (PBS). She was a Filmmaker-in-Residence at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics and is currently an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she teaches documentary filmmaking.
Munmun Dhalaria, a NatGeo Explorer, is the director of MoonPeakFilms in India, which she founded in 2020, where she produces award-winning documentaries about nature, science, and social justice. Good filming ethics while delivering high-quality cinematic films, is embedded in her practice. In 2019, she made her first film for NatGeo titled ‘The Jujurana’s Kingdom’.
Nina Sabnani is an artist and storyteller who uses film, illustration, and writing to tell her stories. Graduating from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara she received a master’s degree in film from Syracuse University, NY, which she pursued as a Fulbright Fellow. Nina’s research interests include exploring the dynamics between words and images in storytelling. Currently, she is Chair of Immersive Learning at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design and Technology.
Nirmal Chander is an Indian documentary filmmaker and editor. The three-time National Award winner has also been credited for directing, Moti Bagh’s India’s official entry for the Oscars 2020. A native of Rajasthan, Nirmal Chander Dandriyal was born in Chennai and grew up in different cities as his father worked in the Air force.
Shobhit Jain is the founder - Director of SPS Community Media, initiative of interactive filmmaking in partnership with the community based in a remote village in central India, where he has mentored and produced more than 200 films on social issues in collaboration with Films Division (India), Doordarshan (India). An alumnus of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, he also directs films; his films have been screened at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival and the Dharamshala International FilmFestival; MIFF (Mumbai), Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK).
Teenaa Kaur Pasricha is a National award-winning filmmaker, Screenwriter fellow from Asia Society NY 2015 and, IVLP fellow on films for Social Change by US Consulate and Sundance. Her feature film “MAUJJ” was selected in NFDC Script Lab 2022. She won a fellowship in Screenplay writing from Time Warner Foundation, Asia Society, New York for her debut feature film script,The Red Autumn. She is known for her popular film “1984, When the Sun didn’t Rise”, which won the National Film Award in the Best Investigative Film category. She was selected as an International Leader on films for social change fellowship granted by the US Dept. of Cultural Affairs in Jan. 2020 wherein she networked with the independent film community in the US and Sundance Film festival. She has fifteen years of experience in documentary films and Media. She has been making documentary films on Human Rights and Environment conservation. Teenaa has received the “Jai Chandiram award” for her upcoming documentary film “What if I tell you?”
Vandana Menon is a film maker, inter disciplinary visual artist based in Bangalore, India. She was faculty at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Technology from 2017-2021. She has conducted film making and theatre workshops across the country and for NYU, Abu Dhabi. She is currently working on a feature length documentary film Morisika: The Story of the Boatman in Assam. She was one of the contributors for the book Silicon Plateau: Volume Two; an art project and publishing series which explores the intersection of technology, culture and society in the Indian city of Bangalore. Her work as a visual designer for #supernova, an experimental interactive play commissioned by the Human Trade Network, Germany premiered at the Human Trade Network Meeting at Freiburg Theatre in June 2017. Her collaboration an experimental feature length film, Dark Fibre featuring Noam Chomsky was funded by the UK Film Council. It premiered at the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in 2010 in Liverpool, England.
Vipin Vijay, is a multiple award-winning filmmaker, video artist, producer and film academic. He is an alumnus of Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata. He has been engaged in his search for new cinematic forms since 2000 working in the domain of creative documentary, film essay, fiction feature film and video art. He has made several nationally and internationally acclaimed and awarded non-fiction and fiction works which were exhibited in film festivals of Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Oberhausen, São Paulo, Nantes, Montreal, Japan, Vladivostok, International Film Festival of India, International Film Festival of Kerala. He is currently Dean of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata, India.
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