Francis Neemberry

In 2005, with my partner Doris, I started making videos under the name of Auroville Video Productions. For over thirteen years we made a number of documentaries on Auroville and large amount of interviews with Aurovilians about their experiences living in Auroville.

Richa Hushing

Alumna of Film and Television Institute of India, Richa Hushing is a documentary filmmaker. Her documentaries are often character portraits; and portraits of indigenous cultures and communities in liminal states. She is the co-director of Auroville Film Institute – Auroville Timelines.

Simona Savardi

I am Aurovilian since 2015 but I have been coming to Auroville since 2007 to visit my sister who had just moved here.
Over the years I have done multiple things in Auroville, in recent years I do therapeutic massages (Shiatsu and Ayurvedic). I like films of real stories, documentaries that testify the different realities that belong to our planet. I have been following the Auroville Film Festival for many years and I am honored to be part of the jury 2022.

Aanchal Kapur

Aanchal Kapur has over thirty years of work experience as a gender and development trainer, documentation & communication specialist. She is the founder of Kriti: a development praxis and communication team, Kriti Film Club and Gestures. Since March 2020, she has been curating & organizing issue-based film festivals on Doculive.

Premendra Mazumder

Premendra Mazumder is the Vice President of Federation of Film Societies of India, Asia-Pacific Secretary of the International Federation of Film Societies and General Secretary of the India Chapter of International Federation of Film Critics: FIPRESCI. He writes on cinema, edits the quarterly online film journal “E-CineIndia” and annual printed journal “CineIndia”. He works as the Advisor to many International Film Festivals and runs some Festivals as Chairman/ Program Director/ Coordinator. He has served as Juror in more than thirty International Film Festivals worldwide.

Radhika Khanna 

Dr. Radhika Khanna teaches in the School of Media and Communication, Pondicherry University and heads the Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC), Puducherry.
An alumna of AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia with a specialisation in filmmaking and research in the pedagogy of cinema, she has been a Theatre-in-Education (TIE) facilitator and a freelance media professional since 1992. In academia since 2005, she has engaged learners with issues of gender, education and environment, especially through documentary films, journalism and theatre. She has recently developed a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Photojournalism with 50 video lessons for GoI’s free e-learning portal, SWAYAM.