Anupama Srinivasan
An alumna of Harvard University and FTII Pune Anupama Srinivasan is a freelance filmmaker based in Delhi, India. She has been making documentaries for the past nineteen years, often shooting and editing her own work. Her films have been screened at various film festivals including 100 Years of Cinema Centenary Festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, MIFF, Peloponnisos International Festival, ImagineIndia Madrid and more.
Previously the Associate Director of Creative Documentary Course at Sacac Delhi in (2013-14), she has been a visiting faculty at Ashoka University, NID, SUPVA Rohtak, IIMC Delhi among others, a mentor at the Dharamshala International Film Festival for the Mountain Fellowship programme and Festival Director of the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival (2013-15) and the Peace Builders International Film Festival (2016). She has also conducted filmmaking workshops for children and young minds under the aegis of several organisations.
Her works include Flickering Lights (In post-production), Are you going to school today? (2019), Nirnay (2012), I Wonder… (2009), On my own again (2007) and On my own (2002).
Arjun Gourisaria
Graduated from the Film & Television Institute of India Arjun Gourisaria has spent over three decades in the film and media industry as a filmmaker, editor and instructor. During his journey he has directed, produced and edited features, documentaries, television programmes and advertising commercials.
While dedicating himself primarily to documentary films as a teacher and an editing guide/consultant Arjun is also found playing Hindustani Khayal music on his modified slide guitar.
Pankaj Rishi Kumar
After graduating from the FTII Pune, India with a specialisation in Film Editing, Pankaj worked as an assistant editor on Sekhar Kapur's ‘Bandit Queen’. He went on to edit numerous documentaries and television series before his debut film Kumar Talkies. An alumnus of Asian Film Academy (Pusan) and Berlin Talents (2016) Pankaj is often regarded as the one-man crew producing, directing, shooting and editing his own films.
His films have been screened at several film festivals including Berlin, Rotterdam, Fribourg, Visions du reel, Busan, Mead, AFI and Yamagata. His filmography includes Pather Chujaeri, The Vote, Gharat, 3 Men and a Bulb, Punches n Ponytails, Seeds of Dissent, In God’s Land and Two Flags while his latest documentary ‘Janani’s Juliet’ was India’s official entry for the Oscar’s. Pankaj was also awarded an Asia Society fellowship at Harvard Asia Centre (2003).
Currently he mentors aspiring filmmakers as well.
Ranajit Ray
Ranajit Ray studied cinema at FTII Pune and went on to direct and produce a number of short films and television series for Indian television. Additionally he also photographed films for international production companies.
His short fiction Ajopa Gacha (One Tree) was screened at Indian panorama in 2001 while documentaries on idol-makers of Kumartuli Clay Image Makers of Kumartuli and the Konyak tribe famously known for their head hunting expeditions Aoling went on to win the National Film Award (Silver Lotus) in Non-Fiction category in 2014 & 2015.
Two years later Ray served as a Jury member for National Film Award of Non-fiction films. Currently he is working on projects titled Dolls Don’t Die and Khangchendzonga
Sourav Sarangi
An award-winning filmmaker from South Asia Sourav Sarangi is a graduate of FTII Pune, Editing department. His journey in the film industry started with Tusu Katha (The Tale of Tusu), which is a lyrical observation on the lives of marginal people and their culture in Eastern India.
His other films like Bilal the story of a little kid living with his blind parents and Moddhikhane Char (CHAR… the No-Man’s Island) a feature documentary set in the India Bangladesh border where the erosion of river Ganga makes thousands homeless and also stateless, went on to receive huge responses and awards worldwide in several international festivals, theatres and TV stations. And shot in Iraq, Sarangi’s film ‘Karbala Memoirs’ is a visual elegy of a tragic war still remembered by millions.
Currently Sarangi is working on a feature documentary titled The Sinking Islands set in Sundarban delta. He has also conducted many workshops and served as jury on several international platforms.
Surabhi Sharma
Surabhi is an independent filmmaker making feature-length documentaries and short films since 2000. Her documentaries, fiction, and video installations engage with cities in transition using the lens of labor, music, and migration. Surabhi’s films have been screened and awarded at international film festivals as well. She is a part of the Indian independent film community as audience, practitioner, curator and mentor.
Currently she is teaching in the Film and New Media Program at the New York University Abu Dhabi.