In the first week of February 2022, the festival will culminate with a workshop called Visual Diaries showcasing video and photographic documentation of the 2019 national elections in India, and two online panel discussions with a focus on teaching practices, and the state of the art of the Indian documentary.
Documentary Panels:
Panel 1: "The Indian documentary - State of the Art"
Moderated by Lalit Vachani
Panelists:
Nandini Ramnath
Nandini Ramnath is a film journalist and critic with the online digital news portal, Scroll.in.
Subasri Krishnan
Subasri Krishnan is a filmmaker and curator of the Urban Lens film festival, organized by the IIHS, Bengaluru.
Amudhan R.P.
Amudhan R.P. is a filmmaker, curator and festival organizer based in Chennai. He is part of Marupakkam, a film activist group from Tamilnadu.
Sanjay Kak
Sanjay Kak is a filmmaker, writer and publisher at Yaarbal Books based in New Delhi.
C.S. Venkiteswaran
C.S. Venkiteswaran is a curator, critic and filmmaker based in Kerala, and is the Artistic Director of the SiGNS Film Festival.
Panel 2: "Documentary as pedagogy - teaching documentary / teaching with documentary"
Moderated by Anjali Monteiro
Panelists:
Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar
Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar are documentary filmmakers, educators and researchers who were professors at the School of Media and Cultural Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) till 2020.
Nilita Vachani
Nilita Vachani is a filmmaker, writer and educator. She teaches documentary history, theory and criticism at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.
Sameera Jain
Sameera Jain is an editor, filmmaker and teacher. She has been Course Director, Creative Documentary Course, SACAC, New Delhi since 2013.
Shohini Ghosh
Shohini Ghosh is the Sajjad Zaheer Professor of media at the AJK Mass Communication Research Center, Jamia Millia Islamia. She is an essayist on popular culture and a documentary filmmaker.
Surabhi Sharma
Surabhi Sharma is an independent filmmaker and teaches at the Film and New Media program at New York University, Abu Dhabi.