Dhritiman Chatterjee
CHAIRPERSON
Dhritiman Chatterjee has educated at Kolkata's St Xavier's Collegiate School and Presidency College, and the Delhi School of Economics. Chatterjee went on to pursue a parallel career in advertising, social communications and documentary filmmaking.
Dhritiman Chatterjee is an Indian actor. He began his acting career in 1970 as the protagonist of Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi (The Adversary). Most of his acting work has been in India's "parallel", or independent, cinema with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Aparna Sen. He has also worked in English films with well-known filmmakers such as Deepa Mehta and Jane Campion.
Dhritiman has received several acting awards in India and has been on the Jury of the Indian National film Awards.
He has acted in movies of different languages, from Bengali to Sinhalese to Hindi and English. He has been a part of multi-lingual cinemas since 1970.
He is still active on English stage in Chennai. He is also a consultant to UNICEF project in Bangladesh on maternal mortality.
Hari Nair
Hari Nair is an Indian cinematographer known for his works in Malayalam cinema, Bengali cinema, English cinema, Hindi cinema. Hari graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).
He was born on 31st March 1965 at Ponnani. His father K.P. Rajgopalan Nair was the head of the department of Cinematography at the Film and Television Institute of India.
Dimo Popov
Dimo Popov holds a Bachelor in Cinematography at Faculty of Drama Art, University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia and a Masters degree on Cinematography and Digital Media, at FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic. He is a member of the MSC (Macedonian Society of Cinematographers) since 2000. He became member of GYD (Turkish Society of Cinematographers) in 2021. He considers the space in front of his camera lens the only interesting place in the world. If not filming, he feels at his best when playing his clarinet.
Nachiket Patwardhan
Nachiket Patwardhan is an architect, an Indian director and producer. He graduated in architecture in 1971 and started an architectural practice in Pune in 1972 in partnership with his wife, Jayoo. Over the past years, the firm has executed a variety of mostly non-commercial projects across India. He was also a consultant for Sahyadri School (Tiwaii Hills) building programme and as the executive architect for an amphitheatre at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune. He also has been a visiting professor since 1993 at the MMM School of Architecture, BNCA and PVPCOA.
He has been actively involved in theatre and film design since 1974 in capacities ranging from numerous costume design, art direction and production design projects, in films such as Onda Nondu Kaala Dalli, Utsav (1983), Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho (1983), Kanaka (1987), Lamp in the Niche (1988), Bye Bye Blues (1988), Swarajnama (1996), and Mirch (2010). He produced and directed films including Anantyatra (1984), Limited Manuski (1994), Devi Ahilyabai, and Ekla Chalo, a 90 minute documentary drama in memory of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his 150th birthday in 2019
Dr. Rashmi Doraiswamy
Dr. Rashmi Doraiswamy studied Russian language and literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her doctoral thesis was on Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian philosopher. She is Professor at the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
She is author of The Post-Soviet Condition: Chingiz Aitmatov in the ’90s (Aakar, 2005) and Guru Dutt: Through Light and Shade (Wisdom Tree, 2008). She is co-editor of Being and Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia (2002), Globalisation and the Third World (2009) and Asian Film Journeys: Selections from Cinemaya (2010). She is editor of several books on Eurasia, Russia and Central Asia.
She has served on the National Award juries for Best Film Critic, Documentary and Feature Films. She has also served on critics’ juries in India and abroad (Mannheim, Taipei, Sochi, Toronto, Karlovy Vary, Alma Ata, Busan, Astana, Warsaw, Nur Sultan, Kerala, Kazan and, recently, on the VGIK-Debut International Jury in Moscow).
She has participated in national and international seminars on cultural issues. She was awarded the MAJLIS research fellowship in 1999 for a project entitled ‘Changing Narrative Strategies of Hindi Cinema’. She was the recipient of the National Award for the Best Film Critic in 1994.