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SOUTH ASIAN CINEMA & VIDEO ONLINE DISTRIBUTION NETWORK

SOUTH ASIAN CINEMA AND VOD NETWORK

Lanka Bandaranayake

film director

Head of Eleithya Productions and director of, among other films, Tradition (2016) recipient of Best Short Film (Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival) and Best Cinematography (Euro Kino Czech International Independent Film Festival) awards.

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Ashvin Devasundaram

film scholar

Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University London, specialist of independent Hindi cinema, programmer Tongues on Fire: UK Asian Film Festival.

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Meenu Gaur

film director and producer

Head of Matteela Films and director of Zinda Bhaag (2013, with Farjab Nabi), Jeevan Haathi (2016) and the TV series Qatil Haseenaon ke Naam (2021).

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Zebunnisa Hamid

film scholar

Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), specialist of Pakistani cinema.

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Hnin Ei Hlaing (Snow)

film director and producer

Head of Snow Films Productions and director of, among other films, Midwives (2019) and Burmese Butterfly (2012).

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Rubaiyat Hossain

film director and producer

Head of Khona Talkies with Ashique Mostafa, and director of three feature films: Meherjaan (2011), Under Construction (2015) and Made in Bangladesh (2019).

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Mara Matta

film scholar

Researcher and lecturer at Universita’ degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome, specialist of modern cultures of South Asia.

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Dechen Roder

film director and producer

Head of Dakinny Productions and co-founder of BESKOP Tshechu Film Festival, Thimphu.
Director of several short films and the feature Munmo Tashi Khyidron / Honeygiver Among the Dogs (2016).

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Diana Saqeb Jamal

film director and women’s rights activist

Head of Mardumak Media and director of Roqaia (2019), Dark Red (2017), Mohtarama (with Malek Shafi’I, 2013) and Twenty-Five Percent (2008).

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Malek Shafi’i

film director and producer

Head of BASA Film Productions, founder of founder of Afghanistan International Human Rights Film Festival.

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Ashwani Sharma

cultural theorist, poet

Course leader BA Film and Screen Studies, London College of Communication, founding co-editor of darkmatter journal, formerly on Executive Committee of MeCCSA and co-founder of MeCCSA’s race, ethnicity and postcolonial network.

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S.V. Srinivas

film scholar

Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Azim Premji University Bangalore, specialist of Indian regional cinema, editor of BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies.

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Deimantas Valaciunas

film scholar

Associate Professor of Film and Popular Cultures of Asia, Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University, specialist of Hindi cinema.

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Valentina Vitali

film scholar

Professor in Digital Arts, Birmingham City University, specialist of Hindi cinema.

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SOUTH ASIAN CINEMA AND VOD NETWORK

Lanka Bandaranayake

film director

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Ashvin Devasundaram

film scholar

A specialist of independent Hindi cinema, programmer Tongues on Fire: UK Asian Film Festival
Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University.

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Meenu Gaur

film director and producer

Head of Matteela Films and director of Zinda Bhaag (2013, with Farjab Nabi), Jeevan Haathi (2016) and the TV series Qatil Haseenaon ke Naam (2021).

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Zebunnisa Hamid

film scholar, specialist of Pakistani cinema

Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).

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Hnin Ei Hlaing (Snow)

film director and producer

Head of Snow Films Productions and director of, among other films, Midwives (2019) and Burmese Butterfly (2012).

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Rubaiyat Hossain

film director and producer

Head of Khona Talkies with Ashique Mostafa, and director of three feature films: Meherjaan (2011), Under Construction (2015) and Made in Bangladesh (2019).

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Mara Matta

film scholar

Researcher and lecturer at Universita’ degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome, specialist of modern cultures of South Asia.

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Dechen Roder

film director and producer

Head of Dakinny Productions and co-founder of BESKOP Tshechu Film Festival, Thimphu.
Director of several short films and the feature Munmo Tashi Khyidron / Honeygiver Among the Dogs (2016).

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Diana Saqeb Jamal

film director and women’s right activist

Head of Mardumak Media and director of Roqaia (2019), Dark Red (2017), Mohtarama (with Malek Shafi’I, 2013) and Twenty-Five Percent (2008).

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Malek Shafi’i

film director, producer, founder of Afghanistan International Human Rights Film Festival

Head of BASA Film Productions.

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Ashwani Sharma

cultural theorist, poet, founding co-editor of darkmatter journal

Course Leader BA Film and Screen Studies, London College of Communication, formerly on Executive Committee of MeCCSA, co-founder of MeCCSA’s race, ethnicity and postcolonial network.

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