Shoma A. Chatterji is an Indian film scholar, author and freelance journalist. She has been the recipient of a number of awards including the National Film Award for Best Film Critic in 1991 and the National Awards for Best Writing on Cinema for her study of the works of Aparna Sen in the publication, Parama and Other Outsiders: The Cinema of Aparna Sen (2002). Notably, she is the only woman to have won both the national awards. She is the author of several biographies including those on Pramathesh Barua, Ritwik Ghatak and Suchitra Sen.

She has won Best South Asian Director Award for the film Santosh.

Sandhya Suri is a British-Indian filmmaker born and raised in the North-East of England. She studied pure mathematics and German before going on to study documentary film-making at England’s National Film and Television School. Her first feature documentary I for India premiered in World Competition at Sundance Film Festival before releasing theatrically in both the UK and the US. It is an unparalleled depiction of the migrant experience constructed from Super 8 film letters sent between India and England over 40 years. Her interest in archive continued when she was asked to explore the the British Film Institute’s India collection dating back to 1899, resulting in the pure archive feature documentary ‘Around India with a Movie Camera’.

She has won the Second Prize for the film The Forest in Me (Rebecca E. Marshall) UK.

Ania Goszczyńska was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1976 and studied Design at the Academy of Arts there, gaining an MA in 2003. In her career she focused on editorial illustration, poster design and visual art. Inspired equally by pop, kitsch and mediæval artworks, horror films and fairytales, she creates stark images with bold forms and strong contrasts. Her work was published in magazines, books and as postcards and posters, as well as exhibited in numerous solo and group shows around the world. She currently lives in Hastings, UK.

http://www.goszczynska.com

She has been nominated for Best Music for the film Minimals in a Titanic World (Philibert Aimé) Rwanda. The film has been nominated for 4 Awards at the festival.

WEYA Marie Viatora is a Rwandan artist born in 1996. Deeply passionate about art, she believes that her work is a way to touch and heal people’s hearts. She began her artistic journey as a singer in 2015 with the release of her first single, Empty House, which aired on Voice of America and led to an interview with CNN.