Team – IAWRT India

Aaradhana Kohli, Managing Trustee

Aaradhana Kohli is Founder of Enable India Foundation a communication praxis.She makes documentaries, curates film festivals, works extensively with urban...

Kiron Bansal, Secretary

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Prof. Kiron Bansal, PhD is an award winning researcher, teacher and trainer in Journalism and Mass Communication. She is former...

Deepti Khurana, Treasurer

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Deepti Khurana is a film academic based in Rohtak, member of faculty at State University of Performing & Visual Arts...

Shikha Jhingan, Trustee

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Shikha Jhingan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University....

Bina Paul, Trustee

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An alumna of the FTII, Pune, Bina has worked as a Film Editor primarily in the Malayalam Film Industry. Editing...

Samina Mishra

Member

Samina Mishra is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and teacher based in New Delhi, with a special interest in media for...

Subasri Krishnan

Member

Subasri Krishnan is an independent filmmaker whose films have dealt with themes of citizenship and complex questions around it. Her...

Aparna Sanyal

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Aparna Sanyal has since 1999 worked extensively on television programming, directed several independent award-winning documentaries, produced and line-produced many international...

Deepika Sharma

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Deepika Sharma is a Documentary Filmmaker and Producer who is exploring themes of gender and belonging through her work. Her...

Nina Sabnani

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Nina Sabnani is an artist and storyteller who uses film, illustration and writing to tell her stories. Graduating from the...

Padmaja Shaw

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Retired as professor of journalism from Osmania University. Basic training in video production. Worked as Executive Director (programmes) of a...

Paromita Vohra

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Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker, writer and dedicated antakshari player whose work explores feminism, love and desire, urban life and...

Priya Thuvassery

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An independent documentary filmmaker and television producer based in New Delhi, Priya’s body of work has focused on women and...

Afrah Shafiq

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Afrah Shafiq is a multi/new media artist based out of Goa. Using the process of research as an artistic playground,...

Alka Hingorani

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Alka Hingorani is Associate Professor at IDC School of Design, IIT-Bombay. She is an architect and an art historian, and...

Anandana Kapur

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Anandana Kapur is co-founder of Cinemad India, a creative agency focused on film and new-media storytelling. Her documentaries have screened...

Ananya Chakraborti

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Ananya Chakraborti is the Chairperson of the West Bengal Commission for the Protection of Child Rights. She comes with over...

Anitha Balachandran, Trustee

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Anitha Balachandran is an illustrator and animation film maker, based in Bangalore. Her experimental documentaries combine footage with animation techiques...

Dr. Gauri D Chakraborty

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Dr. Gauri D Chakraborty graduated from F.T.I.I, Pune and has been a part of the Audio-Video Industry since 1995. She...

Nupur Basu

Member

Nupur Basu is an independent journalist, an award-winning documentary film maker and media educator from India . For the last three and...

Anjali Monteiro

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Dr. Anjali Monteiro is a retired Professor from the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences....

Archana Kapoor

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Archana Kapoor is a community media broadcaster, an independent filmmaker and author. She is the founder of Seeking Modern Applications...

Priya Goswami

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Priya Goswami (b.1988, India) is a national award-winning documentary filmmaker, co-creator, creative head and CEO of an AI-driven app startup,...

Arpita Saha

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Arpita Saha is associated as a Lecturer with the School of Communications, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar. Also, she is a Research...

Iffat Fatima

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Iffat Fatima is an independent documentary filmmaker, researcher and audio-visual designer from Kashmir. For many years now through her documentary...

Debjani Mukherjee

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Debjani Mukherjee HOD and Assistant Professor Animation and Motion Graphics Department, UID Karnavati University Debjani is an award-winning animation filmmaker,...

Batul Mukhtiar

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Batul Mukhtiar is a director, writer and producer, working in Mumbai since more than 20 years. Her children’s film KAPHAL...

Aruna Vasudev

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Aruna Vasudev is Founder and now President-Emeritus of the Network for the Promotion of Asia-Pacific Cinema (NETPAC International), Founder-Editor of...

Chandita Mukherjee

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Chandita Mukherjee is a documentary filmmaker interested in the ways that people understand the world and act on it. She...

Sania Farooqui

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Sania Farooqui is an independent journalist and a filmmaker based out of New Delhi, India. She recently launched The Sania...

Reena Mohan

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Reena Mohan has been directing, producing and editing documentary films for almost four decades. Her work has been recognised in...

Kala Iyer

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Executive Producer and Director of Genesis Media Pvt. Ltd. Pursuing PhD in Communication from Amity University. Post-graduate from the prestigious...

Yashodara Udupa

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As a freelance editor and filmmaker, Yashodara’s work has focused on issues such as human rights, health, decentralised waste management,...

Ranu Ghosh

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Ranu Ghosh is an independent practitioner. Since last two decades, she has been working as Producer-Director-Cinematographer in several Indian and...

Vaidehi Chitre

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Vaidehi Chitre is an independent documentary filmmaker, video editor and writer currently based in Bangalore. Her work has been awarded...

Radhika Khanna

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Radhika Khanna teaches in the School of Media and Communication, Pondicherry University and heads the Educational Multimedia Research Centre at...

Jeroo Mulla

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Jeroo Mulla was the Head of the Social Communications Media Department, Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai from 1986 – 2013. She has...

Teenaa Kaur

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Teenaa Kaur is National Award winning filmmaker Screenwriter and a TEDX Speaker. She is selected as an International Leader on...

Radha Misra

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Radha was professor and head of the department of Communication Media for Children, at SNDT Women’s University in Pune from...

Geeta Sahai

Member

Geeta Sahai (Geeta Lal Sahai) is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. She is a recipient of the REX-Karmaveer-Global-Fellowship and Bronze...

Teena Gill

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Teena Gill is an independent filmmaker – director, cinematographer, editor and producer. Her award winning films include films on ecology,...

Surbhi Dewan

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Surbhi Dewan is a director, writer and producer. Her independent films explore intersections between political conflict, displacement, memory and personhood....

Rachna Vinod

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Rachna Vinod is a media professional with over 23 years of experience in All India Radio. An MA in Political...

Surabhi Sharma

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Surabhi Sharma has been an independent filmmaker making feature-length documentaries and short films since 2000. Her documentaries, fiction, and video...

Nabina Chakraborty

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Nabina passed out of A J Kidwai Mass communication and Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia in 2019. Since then, she...

Supriya Suri

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Is a founder and President of the organization- Cinedarbaar which has been engaged in film programming, education and criticism. As...

Meena Karnik

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Meena Karnik has been in journalism for the past more than 35 years. As a film critic she has attended...

Sonali Jha Chatterjee

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Sonali Jha Chatterjee is an educationist and freelance media person. She has written and edited for newspapers and magazines. She...

Mausumi Bhattacharyya

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Mausumi Bhattacharyya, an Associate Professor in Journalism and Mass Communication, Visva-Bharati - A Central University of National Importance, India, is...

Smriti Nevatia

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Smriti Nevatia was an assistant on Bharat ki Chhap (Doordarshan, 1989), a 13-part series on history, science and technology, directed...

Madhumanti Sengupta

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Madhumanti Sengupta is a Curriculum Developer for Rupantar(Transforming Education) an initiative by Sri Aurobindo Society, New Delhi. Prior to this...

Smita Ramanathan

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Smita Ramanathan is an independent audio producer contributing to community radio stations. She is a regular contributor to Women's International...

Shrinkhla Sahai

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Shrinkhla Sahai is a radio producer/presenter, arts journalist, educator and mental healthcare practitioner. She co-produced India’s first podcast on independent...

Kavita Carneiro

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Kavita Carneiro is an independent filmmaker. She makes short films for NGO’s and corporates. She has made a feature-length documentary...

Debasrita Chakraborty

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Debasrita has completed her Post Graduation in Journalism and Mass Communication from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan (A Central University of National Importance)....