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1984, worked on the staff of leading Indian news publications like The Telegraph, The Times
of India, Outlook newsweekly and The Hindustan Times.Starting his journalistic career on the
news desk of The Telegraph, Kolkata, he moved to New Delhi in 1990 to join The Times of
India. He was part of the editorial team that launched Outlook magazine in 1995.His film
reviews appear on www.ndtv.com. He has scripted three award-winning documentary films –
Dream of a Dark Night, Harvest of Grief, and Dil Ki Basti Mein, all directed by filmmaker
Anwar Jamal. He was a key member of the editorial board of Encyclopaedia Britannica's Encyclopaedia of
Hindi Cinema, published in 2003.
He is the author of Echoes and Eloquences, a book on the life and work of poet-lyricist-filmmaker Gulzar.
He co-edited a book titled Bollywood Hollywood – The Politics of Crossover Films. As a columnist and
correspondent, he writes on art, cinema and mass culture for various Indian and foreign media outlets,
notably The Tribune, The Gulf Today, BBC Online and Civil Society Magazine.

Katharina Woll was born in 1984 in Munich. After her A levels she lived in Quito, Ecuador for a few months,
assisting the German documentary filmmaker Sigmund Thies. From 2004 -2009 she studied
Film and Theater Studies at the Friedrich - Alexander - University Erlangen, Ludwigs -
Maximilian University Munich and the University of Buenos Aires. During her studies she
worked for the Munich film production company DENKmal Film GmbH. She also worked
for Perfect Shot Films Berlin as assistant director for "Knistern der Zeit – Christoph
Schlingensief and his opera village". In addition, she interned with Armin Petras at the Thalia
Theater Hamburg and with René Pollesch at the Munich Kammerspiele. Since 2010 she has been studying
Film Directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (2013: film studies at the Columbia
University, New York) and realized several short films that were shown at various film festivals worldwide.

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Mr B. Lenin was born in 1947. He started his career in 1966 as an assistant director and editor for his father
Bhimsingh and also worked as negative cutter for many feature films. Mr Lenin has edited
many feature and non-feature films. He also worked as a lab technician at AVM studios' B&W
lab and as an assistant sound engineer to Mangesh Desai, Bombay. He has worked in over 350
films in five Indian languages and one in English. He has worked with all legendary directors
of Indian Cinema. Mr Lenin has won numerous awards for his work. Mr Lenin has held
important positions such as: Jury Member of 57th National Film Awards 2010, Chairman of
Oscar Selection Committee of FFI in 2011, Chairperson of Indian Panorama in 2013, a visiting faculty of
Visual Communication Department in many colleges and Dept. of Editing in FTII Pune.

Mr Stefan Arsenijevic was born in Belgrade in 1977. He received a BA degree in film and TV directing at the
Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade, where he works as an assistant professor. He is the co-
founder of the film production house Art & Popcorn. He has won more than 30 national and
international awards for his short films, including a Golden Bear at Berlinale, a European
Academy Film Award and a nomination for the Oscar for the film (A)Torsion.

Mr Malay Bhattacharya moved to Germany in 1970. He worked there as graphic designer and
pursued film studies. He returned to Kolkata in 1978 and since then has been extensively working as

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