Ankit Pogula is an independent filmmaker and video trainer, based out of Delhi. An alumnus of Mass Communication and Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, Ankit has been using film as a medium to engage with urban and rural youth over the last 8 years on issues of Identity, Education, Development and Environment. He has also been facilitating filmmaking workshops for different groups across India like students, teachers, professionals and NGO’s. He has been doing film workshops with organizations like British Council, TERI, PVR-NEST, Pravah, SRUTI, Vasant Valley School and is the founder of Tuning Fork Films.

Sachi Maniar is a filmmaker based out of Mumbai. She has been making documentaries, music videos, TV commercials and short films since she was 18. She was selected as a Metta Mentors Fellow 2009 at Berkley, U.S., where she made a feature length documentary on non-violence. Sachi is passionate about service, travelling, trekking and photography. Sachi has worked in Mumbai with Yash Raj Film and many ad production houses and as part of Global Rickshaw has made films for Pratham, Naaz Foundation, Friends without Borders and others.

Vinod Sreedhar is a music composer and a social entrepreneur based in India. Over the years, He has worked on a wide gamut of issues from social activism aimed at reducing civic apathy, to creating awareness about ecological living among the youth. He has composed music for many ads, short films and documentaries.

Sushant Arora has studied Cinematography at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII, Pune). He earlier studied Mass Communication from I.P. University in Delhi and made films with organisations like Pravah and Beyond Borders (British Council)on Social Change. Over the last few years Sushant has been working as part of the camera team in Mumbai on feature films and advertising productions.

Swati Khanna has been involved with EarthCare Films, an Environmental and Wildlife Production house based in Delhi for the last few years. She has also assisted on films for other organisations on Environment and Wildlife. Swati has been handling production and co-ordination for International productions like The Amazing Race and others in India and has also facilitated film workshops as part of Earth Care Outreach for PVR-NEST and others.

Bhamati Sivapalan is a Delhi based freelance videographer & editor. She is an alumni of MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia after which she worked as a video correspondent with tehelka.com. She is uniquely drawn to the audio-visual medium, which is perhaps why she is yet to drift away from the happy circumstance of being a video professional. On most good days, she would love nothing better than teaching editing to fellow enthusiasts in sleepy hill towns.

Sumit Sisodiya is a Video Editor and Cameraperson based out of Delhi. He works with Dusty Foot Production, an award winning production house making Environmental & Wildlife films. Sumit over many years has shot films on Dams & Displacement, Right to Information, Education, Labor & Livelihoods, Land accusation & more recently Wildlife. He has also made films for organizations like SRUTI, Youth Collective, Abhivyakti, Manzil and others. A environment enthusiast, Sumit looks at making many more social and environmental films in the future.

Saumya B. Verma is a Delhi based media practitioner and writer, Saumya is addicted to teaching. After stints at IIM and DU, she currently teaches Media & Cultural Studies and Editing Principles at AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, JMI Delhi. Besides working for Miditech and NDTV, she has scripted and directed short films for Kutumb, Greenpeace, British Council, Xansa UK/ India etc. Her work on city, culture and cinema has been published by SARAI- CSDS Delhi; University of South Carolina,Columbia and CPRACSIS, Thrissur. She loves to collect film posters and present papers at conferences in India and abroad. Currently, she’s obsessed with Devdas in Indian cinema!