![]() ![]() He then went on to make path-breaking films such as Dev D and Gulaal, Raman Raghav, Mukkabaz, Ugly, Manmarziyaan and Dobaara and Kashyap's prominence increased with the two-part crime drama, Gangs of Wasseypur. ![]() He made his directorial debut with the film 'Paanch' and then he went on to release the critically acclaimed film 'Black Friday', a film based on the namesake book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. For his contributions to film, the Government of France awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and letters) in 2013. In his television career, Jitin has covered and/or managed more than 100 celebrity red carpets and interviewed Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel, Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor, Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Deepak Chopra, just to name a few.Īnurag Kashyap is an award-winning Indian filmmaker, writer and producer known for his works in Hindi cinema. Jitin is also the Senior Entertainment Reporter/Anchor for Asian Variety Show (AVS), the longest-running Bollywood entertainment program in the U.S., with a viewership of 16 million+ households in 120 countries around the world. Jitin also runs of JINGO Media, a boutique public relations,marketing, and events management firm that he launched in Manhattan in 2010 focused on film, arts, entertainment, and fashion. Jitin has just completed executive producing his first documentary, ‘Call Me Dancer’, and is already working on his second. Most recently, Jitin was commissioned by South by Southwest (SXSW) to curate the first-ever South Asian House at that festival in March 2023. Jitin Hingorani is the Founder and Festivals Director of three prominent South Asian Film Festivals in the United States – Dallas/Fort Worth, New York City, and Long Island. Ambedkar: Now and Then in collaboration with Pa Ranjith’s Neelam Productions, which is soon to release. Nisha directed, produced and crowdfunded her upcoming feature-length documentary film, Dr. She also worked as a director’s assistant to Neeraj Ghaywan for his short Geeli Pucchi (that explores gaze, caste, gender, and patriarchy), a part of Netflix’s Ajeeb Daastans anthology. Bahujan Spectatorship explores the consumption and experience of spectatorship of popular cinema’s representation of caste, gender, and sexuality by the marginalized Bahujans of India. Her article ‘Indian Cinema and the Bahujan Spectatorship' in the Economic and Political Weekly is credited with conceptualizing a theory that opposes the popular culture’s casteist male gaze and stereotypical representation of the marginalized, earlier called as “untouchables”, on the silver screen. Mumbai-based Jyoti Nisha is an academic, writer, screenwriter and filmmaker with a focus on cinema, gaze, caste, gender and media, and has 10 years of experience in print, radio and T.V. He was a staff-writer on a sci-fi streaming show for Alibaba/Media Asia, which will release on Chinese streaming platforms, and is currently developing his horror/romance feature as a US/Australian co-production. 'The Day That', which he edited, won the Grand Prize at Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival. It also won the Audience Award at the Short Shorts Film Festival in Japan and the Audience Award at the Taiwanese American Film Festival. He penned the short film, 'Jiejie', which was a HBO Asian Pacific American Visionaries winner. His script, 'Flyology' won 2nd prize in the Screencraft Short Script Competition, and his coming-of-age dramedy, 'Newcomer', won the Diversity category in the Final Draft Big Break Contest. He was a recipient of the Screencraft China-Hollywood Fellowship for his sci-fi screenplay, 'Rendevouz', which was optioned by Orb Media. Michael is a Chinese-Australian writer/director based in Los Angeles, where he earned an MFA in Screenwriting at the American Film Institute. Sushma is an alumna of the MFA Program in Screenwriting and Directing at Columbia University. The project has been part of the Gotham Week Market in New York as well as Torino NEXT Lab and India's Film Bazaar.Īlong with her professional practice, Sushma often mentors screenwriters at the Sundance Co//ab, a digital expression of the Sundance Labs and Festival, and is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Virginia Commonwealth University. She is currently developing her feature project, 'Salt', which is a recipient of the SFFilm Westridge Grant. Her work has also been featured on NPR, BOMB Magazine, the Indian Express, and Platform Mag among others. Her short film 'Anita' premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2020 and was acquired by Focus Features and Canal+. Sushma was recently listed in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Film” (2021) and was one of "12 Filmmakers to Watch" as the finalist for Lynn Shelton’s "Of a Certain Age" grant. Born in India, Sushma is a writer/director based in New York City. ![]()
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