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Nishtha Jain is an internationally-recognized filmmaker based in Mumbai best known for Gulabi Gang (2012), Lakshmi and Me (2007), and City of Photos (2004). Her films interrogate lived experience at the intersection of gender, caste, and class. She explores the political in the personal and uncover the mechanisms of privilege. She’s been working across various platforms–documentary, narrative, virtual reality, and TV series. Her films have been widely screened at film festivals, art house cinemas, and broadcast on TV.

Deepti Gupta is a filmmaker and cinematographer living in Mumbai, India. She graduated in cinematography from Film and TV Institute of India (FTII) in 1998 where she discovered her love for art house cinema and documentary. Deepti is one of the founder members of IWCC, Indian Women Cinematographers Collective. In the world of directing, she has made a select few music videos for independent artists in India. Shut Up Sona (2019) is her first feature documentary which premiered at MAMI, Mumbai in October 2019 and received a Film Critics Guild Jury Special Mention for gender sensitivity.