MASTER CLASSES
An eye for change
Anjali and Jayasankar
Dr. Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar retired as Professors from the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, in 2020. Their documentary films have won 33 national and international awards. They write on censorship, documentary film and related themes. Their book, A Fly in the Curry (Sage, 2016), on independent Indian documentary, won a Special Mention for the best book on cinema at the National Film Awards, 2016
What I learnt at NID
Dayanita Singh
(b. 1961, New Delhi) uses photography to reflect and expand on the ways in which we relate to images. Her recent works, drawn from her extensive photographic oeuvre, are a series of mobile museums that allow her images to be edited, sequenced, archived and displayed. Stemming from Singh’s interest in the archive, the museums present her photographs as interconnected bodies of work that are replete with both poetic and narrative possibilities. Publishing is also a significant part of the artist’s practice: in her books, often published without text, Singh extends her experiments to alternate forms of producing and viewing photographs. Singh is the Hasselblad laureate for 2022, the first South Asian to be conferred this honour.
Editing Documentaries
Reena Mohan
is an award winning documentary filmmaker and editor who has worked out of Dubai, India, Kathmandu and London. She graduated from the Film & Television Institute of India in 1982 with a specialization in Editing. She is the recipient of three National Film Awards from the President of India for her work as producer, director and editor and was recently conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala.
What’s your story?
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
is an Artist, Filmmaker and Writer. A gold medallist in Applied Arts from Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, she spent over a decade in the advertising world telling stories for the biggest brands in India and South East Asia. She was a creative consultant for the National award-winning movies ‘Chillar Party & ‘Bhoothnath Returns.’She has directed the critically acclaimed, award-winning short film ‘What’s for Breakfast?’ ‘Brothers’ and ‘Ghar ki Murgi’. Some of her popular films include Barely KI Barfi, Nil Batte Sannata and Panga. In 2020, Ashwiny was selected by Forbes as “A self-made woman of India”.
Making sound for a film
Michelle Couttolenc
is passionate about sound and cinema since she was 14 years old, Michellee Couttolenc is a sound engineer of the seventh art. She studied sound at LISA in France with François Serre, and specializes in film sound mixing to intensify the emotion of the viewer. Her career started 15 years ago and includes more than 100 films, among them: Pan’s Labyrinth, A Cop Movie, Silent Light, The Kings of the World. She has been nominated 16 times for the Mexican Ariel Award for Best Sound and has won it 6 times. In April 2021, thanks to the film “Sound of Metal” she received the AMPS, BAFTA, CAS and Óscar®️ awards.