IAWRT India - International Association of Women in Radio & Television India

Team

Shilpi Gulati

Shilpi Gulati is a director, producer and academic. Her artistic practice engages with feminist and queer narratives, visual and performing...

Sehjo Singh

Starting out as an independent documentary filmmaker, Sehjo Singh dealt with a very wide range of social justice issues for...

Prachee Bajania

Prachee Bajania is a filmmaker, editor and writer based in Gujarat. An alumna of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad...

Arunima Dey

Arunima Dey is working as an Assistant Professor at NSHM Media School, Kolkata. She has earned her Master of Arts...

Jabeen Merchant

Jabeen Merchant is a film editor and script consultant based in Mumbai; with a wide experience covering independent cinema as...

Priya Goswami

Priya Goswami (b. 1988, India) is a national award-winning documentary filmmaker, ethical technologist, and media maker. She is the co-creator,...

Meera Krishnan

Meera Krishnan is a filmmaker, producer and translator based in Mumbai. After having completed her education from JNU, New Delhi...

Iffat Usmani

Iffat Usmani is an architect and media professional with a strong background in architectural design, and visual storytelling. She holds...

Natasha Badhwar

A post graduate in Mass Communications in MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Natasha started her career as one of India’s...

Sulagna Maitra

Sulagna is Content and Communications Lead for InHERIT, a legacy film and podcast-based project by Ashoka University and Helen Hamlyn...

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...

Aaradhana Kohli

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

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...

Imrana Khan

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Imrana is a filmmaker and communications expert with over 17 years of experience in wildlife and environmental storytelling. Alongside her...

Kiron Bansal

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

Deepti Khurana

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

Shikha Jhingan

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

Bina Paul

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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

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

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...

Subasri Krishnan

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

Padmaja Shaw

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

Paromita Vohra

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

Priya Thuvassery

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

Afrah Shafiq

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

Alka Hingorani

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

Anandana Kapur

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

Ananya Chakraborti

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

Anitha Balachandran

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

Gauri D Chakraborty

Gauri D. Chakraborty graduated from Asia’s premier institution, Film and Television Institute of India, Pune and has been a part...

Nupur Basu

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

Anjali Monteiro

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

Archana Kapoor

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

Arpita Saha

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

Iffat Fatima

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

Debjani Mukherjee

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

Batul Mukhtiar

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

Sania Farooqui

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

Reena Mohan

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

Kala Iyer

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

Yashodara Udupa

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

Ranu Ghosh

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

Vaidehi Chitre

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

Radhika Khanna

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

Jeroo Mulla

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

Teenaa Kaur

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

Radha Misra

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

Geeta Sahai

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

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

Surbhi Dewan

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

Rachna Vinod

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

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

Supriya Suri

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

Meena Karnik

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

Sonali Jha Chatterjee

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

Smriti Nevatia

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

Madhumanti Sengupta

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

Smita Ramanathan

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

Shrinkhla Sahai

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

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

Dr. Yuki Azaad Tomar

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Dr. Yuki Azaad Tomar is a storyteller at heart—whether through film, music, or academia. An Associate Professor at the University of...

Debasrita Chakraborty

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