FESTIVAL JURY - STUDENT SHORTS

FESTIVAL JURY - STUDENTS SHORTS

DR. ANJALI MONTEIRO

KETKI PANDIT Dr. Anjali Monteiro retired recently as Professor and Dean from the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. She is a documentary filmmaker, media researcher and teacher. Jointly with K.P. Jayasankar, she has made over 40 documentary films, many of which have been screened at film festivals, winning thirty-three awards. She writes on documentary film, media and cultural studies. She has co-authored the national award-winning book A Fly in the Curry: Independent Documentary Film in India and coedited the book DigiNaka: Subaltern Politics and Digital Media in PostCapitalist India. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at UC Berkeley and an ICCR Visiting Professor at University of Technology Sydney, and a Howard Thomas Memorial Commonwealth fellow at University of Western Sydney. She has been active in campaigns against censorship.

Ketki Pandit is a writer, filmmaker and an Educator - a restless person who can’t help but create. An alumnus of New York University’s Tisch School of The Arts, and Film and TV Institute of India’s Screenplay writing Department, Ketki has made and worked on tons of shorts in many different capacities. But it’s in writing that she has dabbled the most, for that’s what she finds the scariest of all. Her writing credits include Mansha Ki Shaadi (2015), an award-winning Hindi solo one act play, Girl from Mars, a feature length Screenplay (finalist at NYU’s Sloan Feature Development Grant 2018-2019), and Clock In The Jungle (2021), a children’s picture book. She has been teaching screenwriting at FTII since 2009, and currently, she is the Honorary HOD and Course Mentor at FTII’s Screenplay Writing Department. Director and Co-Founder at Byqa.ink, Ketki is passionate about intimate, poetic storytelling that brings nuanced experiences across the gender spectrum alive on page, stage, and screen.

VIVECK VASWANI Viveck Vaswani is an Actor, Producer, Teacher, Writer, and the man who famously gave Shahrukh Khan his big break in Bollywood. An alumnus of Campion School and Cathedral and John Connon, Viveck started off with acting in India’s first TV soap opera Khandaan. He then produced a Marathi film called Kis Bai Kiss, and a major television serial called Nai Dishayen. He has acted in more than 100 films and numerous television shows. He has produced 13 films and 2 television shows. Viveck Vaswani has been Advisor/ Consultant/ Strategist to a number of established companies as well as start-ups in the entertainment business. He teaches Live Action Production, and Documentary & Films at Pearl Academy, Mumbai campus. Additionally, he also serves on the advisory board of School of Media at Pearl Academy.