Director

Anupama Srinivasan

Anupama is a filmmaker, film educator and curator based in Delhi, India. She did her BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and went on to study filmmaking at the FTII, Pune. She has been making documentaries for over two decades, often shooting and editing her own work. Her films have been screened at various film festivals including Sundance, CPH, Hot Docs, IDFA, Thessaloniki, Busan, 100 Years of Cinema Centenary Festival, Yamagata, FIPA Biarritz, MIFF, Film Southasia Kathmandu, ImagineIndia Madrid, Peloponnisos and Kara Filmfest. FLICKERING LIGHTS, the feature documentary that she co-directed, shot and edited received the Best Cinematography Award at IDFA international competition 2023. NOCTURNES, that she co-directed and co-edited, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024 where it received the Special Jury Award for Craft. Anupama is one of the recipients of the Chicken & Egg Award 2025. Her work has received support from Catapult, Doc Society IDFA Bertha, Sundance, Visions Sud Est and other funds. She was the Festival Director of the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival for three years (2013-15), and of the Peace Builders International Film Festival in 2016.

Director/Producer

Anirban Dutta

Anirban is a filmmaker, still photographer and a media educator based in Delhi, India. He set up the film company, Metamorphosis in 2003. He has directed and produced several documentary films and created many photographic essays. His films have traveled to various film festivals including Sundance, CPH, Busan, IDFA, Hot Docs, Sheffield, DOC NYC, New York Short Film Festival, San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival, Yamagata, Al Jazeera, and MIFF. He was part of the Eurodoc Training Program for Creative Producing in 2021. He was also part of Film Independent's Global Media Makers LA Residency in 2022 with the project NOCTURNES. The film premiered at the Sundance in 2024 and went on to be shown at over 50 festivals across the world, winning awards at Sundance, Thessaloniki, Mumbai and others. FLICKERING LIGHTS, the feature documentary that he co-directed and produced received the Best Cinematography Award at IDFA international competition in 2023. Anirban has been a Visiting Artist at the University of Boise, Utah, USA (2009), Stanica Slovakia (2013) and exhibited in University of Lima, Peru (2007) in addition to having exhibitions in India.

Producer

Ryan Krivoshey

Ryan Krivoshey is the President and Co-Founder of the production company Correspondent, launched in 2024, committed to creating and supporting artistic, cinematic, and boundary-pushing filmmaking. Current projects include METROPOLIS, directed by Anupama Srinivasan and Anirban Dutta (NOCTURNES), SALUT ROBERT, directed by Laura Israel (DON’T BLINK – ROBERT FRANK) and executive produced by Vicky Krieps (PHANTOM THREAD), and RARE ANIMALS directed by Andree Ljutica. Ryan is also the President and Founder of the award-winning distribution company Grasshopper Film. He has released films by Agnes Varda, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Albert Serra, Jia Zhang-ke, Abbas Kiarostami, Pedro Costa, and Claire Denis, as well as groundbreaking documentaries like Academy Award–nominated LAST MEN IN ALEPPO, SWEETGRASS, BLACK MOTHER, THE HOTTEST AUGUST, NOCTURNES, and LEVIATHAN.