Keiko Okawa (Filmmaker, Editor, Japan) in conversation with Reena Mohan

Day 2 — 14 March | CD Deshmukh Auditorium | 11:15 AM

C.D Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC, New Delhi

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Keiko Okawa born in Ishikawa Prefecture, 1978. Okawa has a degree from the Graduate School Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. She worked on Yuki and Nina(2009, dir. Suwa Nobuhiro)as an assistant editor. She also edited on Haruhata-san’s Recorder(2022, dir Sugita Kyoshi) and Small, Slow but Steady (2022, dir.Miyake Sho).and Following The sound(2023,dir,Sugita Kyoshi).and After The Fever (2024, dir.Yamamoto Akira), and All The Long Nights (2024, dir.Miyake Sho), and Super Happy Forever(2024, dir.Igarashi Kohei), and Seaside Serendipity (2025,  dir. Yokohama Satoko), and Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025, dir.Miyake Sho). She directed Oasis(2023). She also participates as a lecturer for “Children Meet Cinema,” a Japan-wide educational film workshop.

Reena Mohan is an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker and editor who has worked out of Dubai, India, Kathmandu, and London.

She graduated from the Film & Television Institute of India in 1982 and, since then, has edited features, television serials, and over 50 documentaries, many of which have been screened at international film festivals.

She produced and directed her first award-winning documentary, Kamlabai, in 1991 and has, till now, scripted and directed more than 10 documentaries.  Most of these have travelled to various international film festivals. Her films reveal a passionate engagement with people’s lives and issues of filmmaking.

She has several awards, including three National Awards to her credit.

Paromita Vohra (Filmmaker, India) in conversation with Subasri Krishnan

Day 3 — 15 March | 10:45 AM

C.D Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC, New Delhi

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Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker and writer whose work focuses on gender, feminism, urban life, love, desire and popular culture and spans many forms including documentary, fiction, print, video and sound installation. Her films include the path-breaking Unlimited Girls  and  Q2P as well as Partners in Crime, Morality TV and the Loving Jehad, Where’s Sandra, Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City and A Woman’s Place.

She recently directed the cutting-edge prime time TV series Connection Hum Tum.  She has written the internationally released Pakistani film Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) and several documentaries.  Her writing has been published in various anthologies including Bombay Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai, The Tranquebar Book of Indian Erotica, The Penguin Book of Schooldays, Defending Our Dreams and First Proof and journals, including Signs, South Asian Journal for Popular Culture, Bioscope, Tehelka, Elle, Outlook, vogue, India Today and Yahoo Originals.

She writes weekly columns in Sunday Mid-Day and Mumbai Mirror and is currently working on a multi-media online project around sexual experience and sex education and a film about Hindi film music obssessives.

Subasri Krishnan is a filmmaker and leads the Media Lab at the Indian Institute for Human Settlement (IIHS), an educational institution that works around urban issues. Subasri’s films are on various themes concerning contemporary politics. Her award-winning films include This or That Particular Person. Subasri has worked extensively in Assam. Her other films include What the Fields Remember; Sikhirni Mwsanai (Dance of the Butterfly) her forthcoming film is Shadow Lines based in contemporary Assam.

Masterclass by AniMela Film Festival With Nina Sabnani, Anne Doshi, Fida Hamid & Isha Mangalmurti

Day 3 — 15 March | 2:15 PM

C D Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC, New Delhi

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Nina Sabnani is an artist and storyteller who uses film, illustration and writing to tell her stories. She graduated in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara and received a master’s degree in film from Syracuse University, NY, which she pursued as a Fulbright Fellow in 1997.

Her doctoral research at the IDC focused on Rajasthan’s Kaavad storytelling tradition.

Nina’s research interests include exploring the dynamics between words and images in storytelling.

Her work in film and illustrated books, seeks to bring together animation and ethnography.

After teaching for two decades at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Nina has made Mumbai her home.

Currently, she is Professor at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay.

Anne Doshi is Co-Founder and Artistic Director at AniMela.

Isha Mangalmurti is an independent 2D animation filmmaker based in India. She has a keen interest in local indigenous stories and is constantly exploring ways of telling these through her work.

Entering an industry in its nascent stages right after graduating from NID, Ahmedabad in 2017 pushed her towards a more entrepreneurial direction.

Isha enjoys designing visual narratives and bringing stories to life. Her aim is to create worlds where people can escape reality for some time. She is currently developing a mini-series targeted towards young adults set in India revolving around the topic of women’s football. Isha strives to keep her work authentic to the contemporary Indian reality, treading a fine line between fiction and non-fiction. She believes animation has the power to help us imagine a better future. She wants to bring 2D animation to the mainstream in India and put the country on the international map for it.