FiPRESCI India Juries
Latika Padgaonkar
Latika Padgaonkar is a columnist, editor, translator, and former Joint Director of Osian’s-Cinefan Film Festival. She was the Foreign Correspondent for The Telegraph in Paris during the 1980s and worked with UNESCO and the National Commission for Women’s Media Group. A PhD from the University of Sorbonne, she taught at Fergusson College and Jawaharlal Nehru University. A jury member for various film festivals, she has co-edited books like Being and Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia and translated The French in India.
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G. P. Ramachandran
G. P. Ramachandran is a distinguished Indian film critic, honored with the President’s Gold Medal and the National Award for Best Film Critic in 2006. Recipient of four Kerala State Awards and numerous accolades, he has served on juries for prestigious festivals such as the Slemani International Film Festival (Kurdistan/Iraq), National Film Awards (2007), Bengaluru IFF, IFF Kerala, IDSFFK, IFF Thrissur, SIGNS, and the John Abraham Awards. Author of ten acclaimed books and numerous Malayalam articles, he is currently a Kerala Sahitya Akademi member and Treasurer of FIPRESCI India, contributing significantly to literary and cinematic discourse.
Siladitya Sen
Siladitya Sen, an eminent film scholar and critic from Kolkata, brings over 34 years of expertise to the field of cinema studies. A passionate educator in film appreciation, he has also established himself as an accomplished author and essayist. Currently associated with the editorial department of Anandabazar Patrika, his major works include Mrinal Sener Film Jatra, Authorized Interview of Tanvir Mokammel, The Cinema of the Majority: An Appraisal of Intolerance, and Cinemar Swar O Sanket (Best Book on Cinema, BFJA, 1998).
He has served on prestigious juries, including Indian Panorama (IFFI), National Film Awards, MIFF, Bengaluru IFF, IFF Kerala, and Kolkata IFF. From 2001 to 2005, he was on the editorial board of Cinema in India, an NFDC publication.
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