Links to people linked to documentary film in India (and South Asia) ...

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* Akhil Sutaria Ph 9427 222 777 http://www.akhiltv.com Creating a community of learning, living, leading and loving people. * Anand Patwardhan Email: anandpat at gmail.com http://www.patwardhan.com

* Anita Barar, film-maker based in Sydney-Australia anita.barar at optusnet.com.au Postal: 3 Alfred Place, Quakers Hill, NSW 2763, Australia. Email: anita dot barar at optusnet dot com dot au Phone: (International code ) 61 2 96263168 Mobile phone: (International code) 61 409 049619 Writer, playwright, poet in Hindi and English, film maker and radio broadcaster at a National Radio of Australia for Hindi language. Winner of few awards and recognition for creative work.

* Anupama Srinivasan <onusrinivasan at hotmail.com> ('On My Own Again, 30 min, 2007, English/Hindi), about child sexual abuse.

* Anuradha Miraji anumiraji at yahoo.com. Made a documentary 'The Living Dead' on the endosulphan pesticide issue on Karnataka-Kerala border and 'The Kishkinda trust' in Angundi, Karnataka. Presently working in Bangalore and looking at issues for filming. Interested in rural areas and artisans.

* Ashish Bhatia, independent film-maker based in Mumbai. +91-9323711993 http://www.shubhashishcreations.blogspot.com dostpunjabi1976 at yahoo.co.in

* Ashvin Kumar. The Forest – feature, 104 min – 2007. Little Terrorist – short, 15 min – 2005. Road To Ladakh – short, 48 min – 2004. Nominated for an Oscar®, at the Academy Awards of 2005, Ashvin Kumar is also the first Indian to be nominated at the European Film Academy and his film Little Terrorist has been invited to 145 film festivals, winning best film awards in 15 of them, including the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) LA making him only Indian to be recognized by the three major international film academies. Ashvin began working as an actor and director in theatre, and began his film career as an editor. Ashvin is presently working on a ultra low budget digital documentary TV series about his own 2000 mile journey through India. He just recently completed the script of an action adventure feature film set about Islam and terrorism which is set in Ladakh and Kashmir. He is simultaneously working on a ultra low budget digital feature film - a gritty crime and sex drama set in New Delhi. He has blog at passionforcinema where he is a featured writer - http://passionforcinema.com/author/ashvin Contact: ashvinkumar at mac.com / ashvinaway at yahoo.com

* Bharath Murthy 9903175446 'What are you looking at?' a documentary on one of the earliest amateur pornographic videos called 'Mysore Mallige'. TMade for PSBT. actionist at gmail.com

* Dhanya Pilo, www.dhanyapilo.com

* Gouri Patwardhan, A-9,Indrayani Apts., Prabhat Rd. Lane 15, Pune, 411004 Ph-020 25657138 OR 316,City Press, Madina City mall, Abdullah Haroon Road, Saddar, Karachi, Pakistan

* Harpreet Kaur, director working for a production house in the US. mediakaur at yahoo.com

* Huned Contractor, Pune-based journalist, author and documentary filmmaker. Made films on environment-based issues and bios of award-winning scientists. One recent film is titled 'Critical Chaos' made under the aegis of a BBC workshop has won an award. Is currently working on a feature film script. Ph 9881084202.

* Jayasankar. KP and Anjali Monteiro, Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Bombay 400 088, India. Email: cmcs.tiss[AT]gmail.com The Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, (CMCS) is an independent centre of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, engaged in media teaching, production, research and dissemination. A unique feature of the Centre is the close linkage between the technical and academic areas of its work. The work of the Centre straddles both realms, thus facilitating a synergy between research, teaching and production, all of which are informed by a keen sense of connection with local subaltern cultures ofresistance and invention: http://cmcs.tiss.edu

* Joseph Bernard, Sight & Sound, Bangalore 'Land-The Livelihood'. Over the years, hundreds of Dalits have been exploited and sometimes even killed for land.

* Kavita Joshi - filmmaker and media trainer based in Delhi. Recent work has focused on the conflict in Manipur and the human rights situation there, especially AFSPA 1958 and Irom Sharmila's fast to death. Films: Some Roots Grow Upwards (on the theatre of Ratan Thiyam); Tales from the Margins (on women's protests against AFSPA in Manipur); My Body My Weapon (on Irom Sharmila's epic hunger strike). WEB: http://kavitajoshi.blogspot.com EMAIL: kj.impulse at gmail.com

* Manak Matiyani, independent film maker based in Delhi. Past Work includes: All About Our Mothers, a student film on gender roles in urban families, Blood On My Hands, on menstrual practices and perceptions and Is This My City, on sexual harassment in public places. Currently working on a project on tsunami rehabilitation in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Pointers, updates, suggestions on my work and new projects all are welcome! Email: manakmatiyani at gmail.com Phone: 98680111038.

* Maya Jaideep, 297, 3rd cross, 2nd block, RMV Extension 2nd stage, Bangalore: 560094 Phone : 080 23416543, 080 23416776, Mobile: 94484 90006. Basically work on HIV/AIDS and environment. Also made a few corporate films. http://www.infact.in Email: maya.jaideep at egkstelevision.com Phone : 080 23416543, 080 23416776, Mobile: 94484 90006.

* Meghnath and Biju Toppo, Film-maker, founder of AKHRA, working in the field of culture and communication. AKHRA Sastri Nagar(2nd lane), Kanke Road, Ranchi 834008, Jharkhand, India Ph.no 0651-2231693, email akhra@rediffmail.com. Meghnath AKHRA, Sastri Nagar(2nd lane), Kanke Road, Ranchi 834008, Jharkhand India Ph.no 0651-2231693 email akhra@rediffmail.com

* Nandan Saxena (nandansaxena@gmail.com) (+91-120-4338282). Makes documentaries and poetry films under the banner Top Quark Films. Have made films on the politics of ecology and development. Also made an anthropo-botanical film titled 'Agaria-The Sons of Fire.' Presently (Jan 2008) working on an independent film on the suicides of the cotton farmers at Vidarbha in Maharashtra. Helped organize the Sadho Poetry Film Festival at Delhi in October 2007. Plan to take the traveling festival to 20 venues in India in 2008. http://www.sadho.com

* Nina Subramani, http://www.elephantcorridor.org elephantcorridor at gmail.org Works on: environment, wildlife, development

* Nitin K.(nitinforfilms@gmail.com), independent filmmaker based in Delhi, Company- DISSOLVE STUDIO[http://www.dissolvestudio.in], Black Pamphlets/84 mins on students politics, currently developing few ideas for films and also working on alternative methodologies for documentary film distribution in rural India. (+91 9313105451, +91 11 24122346)

* Parvez Imam - Director, f-20 Communications. Independent film maker. Has worked on many subjects including disabilities and mental illnesses, among others. Recent film 'FLIGHT 208' was an experimental video. URL: http://www.f20communications.com email: f20films at yahoo.com Phone: 011-46552101

* Pydi Theresh Babu. Writer, music-composer, producer and director. Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. India <paidisribabu at yahoo.com

* Rakesh Sharma http://www.rakeshfilm.com blog: http://rakeshindia.blogspot.com rakeshfilm at gmail.com

* Sagari Chhabra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagari_Chhabra

* Sanjay Maharishi - sanjay dot maharishi at gmail dot com

* Savyasaachi Jain Independent Film Maker and Media Trainer based in Delhi. Lots of work on Kashmir, alcoholism, irregular migration and other themes of diversity, identity and conflict. email: saachi at integritv.com

* Sheetal Gupta agarwal_sheetal at yahoo.com Graduated with an MFA in documentary film making and currently work independently. Based in Hong Kong and work under the banner of Sheetal Films. Contact sheetalsagarwal at gmail.com, agarwal_sheetal at yahoo.com

* Stalin K., Co-Founder & Director, DRISHTI Media, Arts & Human Rights, 103, Anand Hari Tower, Sandesh Press Road, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad 380 054, Gujarat. India, Tel: +91-79-2685 1235 and 6661 4235 http://www.drishtimedia.org http://www.videovolunteers .org

* Suhasini Mulay, making films on traffic systems, urban development and other Human Rights issues. Also an actress. Suhasini Mulay, 22 Kalanagar C.H.S, Bandra (East), Mumbai 400 051 Tel: +91 22 2659 0685 Email suhasini.mulay at gmail.com and suhasinimulay at yahoo.com

* Surender, independent film-maker based in Delhi. Ph 9899591622. docu_india2k1 at yahoo.com

* Surya Shankar Dash, Filmmaker, Samadrusti Television, Bhubaneswar Tel: 9437500862 Email: dash.suryashankar at gmail.com Mainly making films on issues of adivasi people, displacement, people's resistance movements, and ecological issues in Orissa. Also organises an alternate film festival called People's Film Festival/Loka Chitra Utsav in Orissa.

* Swati Bandi. swatibandi at yahoo.co.uk Works on: : experimental short and documentary films on sexuality, immigration, displacement, urban decay. Swati is currently (Jan 2008) in a PhD program about to embark on her dissertation research on Human Rights' documentary films made by women in India.

* Tejendra Tamrakar tejtamrakar at yahoo.co.in Quarter-2A, Street-40, Sector-5, Bhilai Nagar, Chhattisgarh State, Phone: 098271-50713, 07882279861, tejtamrakar at yahoo.co.in Developing a blog related to documentary films, art, theater, and folk-related art. http://www.cgavp.wordpress.com

* Vinod Ganatra. Documentary and children's film maker from Mumbai. 101,Famous Studio, Dr.E.Moses Road, Mahalaxmi 400 011. Tel: 24922385 Fax: 24936278 cavef at mtnl.net.in Receipient of eight international awards for his films 'Heda-Hoda' (Blind Camel) and 'Lukka Chhuppi' (Hide and Seek).

* Uma Magal umagal at hotmail.com Filmmaker in Hyderabad. http://www.fenugreekproductions.com Ph: 9989944311 Address: Beta 406, Jayabheri Silicon County Madhapur Road Kondapur Village Hyderabad 500032 Andhra Pradesh, India. contact@fenugreekproductions.com We are a Bangalore and Hyderabad based company providing the entire range of preproduction, production and post production film and video services. Our clients include: * UNICEF * The Public Broadcasting Service, USA * The University of San Francisco, California, USA * The International Women's Center, University of California at Berkeley, USA * The Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, USA The Balch Center for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, USA * The African American Museum, Philadelphia, USA * FRLHT: The Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore, India * The Government of India : Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Says Uma: "I work in multi genre films -- documentary, educational, corporate, NGO. We pride ourselves on 'applying the craft appropriately" and deliver the entire range of preproduction, production and post production video and film services. We also do training in all these services in alliance with other institutions.'

* Vaani Arora. Independent film maker based in New Delhi. Film: Kinjal. Recent works include developing stories with adolescent girls in semi-urban areas. mail: vaaniarora at yahoo.com. Ph: 9811707266

* Vijay S. Jodha, Delhi-based independent photographer, writer and film maker. His words and images have appeared in various Indian and foreign publications. Produced two photography books and his photo projects have been showcased in galleries/museums in India as well as in Frankfurt, London, Brussels, New York and Queensland. He learnt filmmaking at New York University and has worked with directors Ang Lee and Mira Nair. He has worked on television projects for Smithsonian, Discovery, MTV New York, CBS, PBS, Doordarshan and others. Email: jodha at vsnl.com and vijayjodha at gmail.com

Alt.film.festivals

* Andhra Pradesh-Karimnagar: Varala Anand, Festival Director, Karimnagar Film Society, Film Bhavan, Collectorate Road, Karimnagar, AP. Mobile 9440501281

* Breakthrough: Breakthrough is an international human rights organization that uses media, education and pop culture to promote values of dignity, equality and justice. For press inquiries and more information, contact: Alika Khosla, Associate Director, alika@breakthrough.tv Anuja Ghosalkar, Film Festival Coordinator, anuja@breakthrough.tv +91.11.26176181/85

* Bring Your Own Film Festival, Puri 2008 Vhttp://www.byofilmfestival.com Also visit the Group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/byoffpuri to post your thoughts, suggestions. Confirm participation by sending the DVD and Screening fee (in favaour of INSCREEN payable at Bhubaneswar) in advance, preferably before 7th February 2008 so as to be included in the festival brochure. Send your submission to: BYOFF C/o. Inscreen SCR - 3, Unit - III Near Keshari Talkies Bhubaneswar - 751 001 Orissa, India. For further clarifications contact: Susant Mishra: 91-09337505155 Mukut:91-09861004364 Sammit Das:91-09820027898 Surya Pratap:91-09861166567 Kapilas Bhuyan:91-09338148494 Jogendra Panda:91-09869000069 Manas Chowdhury:91-09821045283 Ranojit: 91-09830329843

* Gorakhpur: Sanjay Joshi, Convener, 3rd Gorakhpur Film Festival, blog: http://www.gorakhpurfilmfestival.blogspot.com 91-9811577426 91-120-2885017

* IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival: Organised by IAWRT India with support from IIC. Held on 8th March - International Women's Day each year. Festival has a "travelling" package whereby the films are screened across India in partnership with institutions and local NGOs. To invite the travelling package, write to Jai Chandiram < iawrtindia at gmail.com > with a cc to < kj.impulse at gmail.com >

* Karnataka-Bangalore: Georgekutty A.L. Secretary, Bangalore Film Society, 33/1-9, Thyagaraja Layout, Jai Bharath Nagar, MS Nagar P.O., Bangalore 560 033. Karnataka, India Tel: 91-80-25493705 Email: bangalorefilmsociety at gmail.com , waterjourneys at rediffmail.com http://www.voicesfromthewaters

* Karnataka-Bangalore: Bangalore International Film Festival For more information visit http://www.suchitrafest.in or call 26711785.

* Karnataka-Bangalore, Karnataka: CED,No 7, 8th Main,IIIrd Phase Domlur IInd Stage, Bangalore-560 071 080-25353397 cedban at doccentre.net http://www.doccentre.net

* Maharashtra-Mumbai: 2008 Kala Ghoda festival in Feb. Film competition for young aspiring film makers. Great opportunity to showcase talent. Smriti 9819242246

* New Delhi: Kriti Film Club (filmclub.kriti@gmail.com). KRITI: a development research, praxis and communication team S-35 Tara Apartments, Alaknanda, New Delhi 110019 Phone: +91-11-26027845/ 26033088 Email: space.kriti@gmail.com http://krititeam.blogspot.com

* Uttar Pradesh-Gorakhpur: Sanjay Joshi Convener 3rd Gorakhpur Film Festival 91-9811577426 91-120-2885017 blog: http://www.gorakhpurfilmfestival.blogspot.com

* VIBGYOR film festival, Thrissur, Kerala. Organised by the Chetana Media Institute. http://2008.vibgyorfilm.com/ contact < vibgyorfest at gmail.com > Organised by ViBGYOR Film Collective and The Other Media. Supported by Environmrnt Support Group, NESA, SICHREM, VISTHAR, SANGAMA, Visual Search, Moving Republic, ACT NOW, SCM and UTC. The third edition of ViBGYOR will be held from February 13th to 17th 2008 in Thrissur, Kerala. Around 200 films from all over the world will be screened in various categories and packages. For more details: www.vibgyorfilm.com www.othermediacommunications.com

* Marupakkam film festival, Madurai. Organised by Amudhan RP in late-Nov or early-Dec. http://maduraifilmfest.blogspot.com/

* Udaipur, Rajasthan: Manish Jain, Shikshantar: The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development, 83 Adinath Nagar, Udaipur, Rajasthan, 313004 INDIA Tel: 91-294-245-1303 Fax: 91-294-245-1925 Web: www.swaraj.org/shikshantar

Film awards

* IDPA India http://www.idpaindia.org/

Journalists/media:

* Documentary24x7 (NDTV): Gunjan Jain: gunjanj at ndtv.com, 9811777387 or Ayesha Kagal: ayesha at ndtv.com, 9811211715

* Doris Rao, Communication Consultant, Mumbai +91 9820190278

* Frederick Noronha, Independent Journalist, 784 Near Lourdes Convent, Sonarbhat, Saligao 403511 Bardez Goa India Ph +91-832-2409490 or 9970 157402 http://fn.goa-india.org Moderator, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/docuwallahs2

* Shoma A. Chatterji, 109/33, Hazra Road, Kolkata 700026 Landline: 033-65347027 Cell: (0)9231552598 e-mail:shoma.chatterji at gmail.com Journalist and author.

* Utpal Borpujari; Journalist-Film Critic-Specialist in Cinema from North-East India; Associated with Film Trust India (New Delhi), Assam Cine Art Society (ACAS-Guwahati), Gauhati Cine Club, Cine Art Society, Asom (CineASA, Guwahati). Member of International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). Contacts: Special Correspondent; Deccan Herald; New Delhi Bureau; 2/4-5, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi - 110001, India. Tel: 23719471-2 (O); 23731535 (O); 22615134 (R); 9811631034 (M); email: utpalb21 at yahoo.com, utpalb21 at gmail.com, uborpujari at deccanherald.co.in, utpalb21 at hotmail.com

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