Ashish RAVINRAN - DIRECTOR & EDITOR
Ashish Ravinran is a Singaporean-Indian filmmaker based in New York. He started writing and directing short films while studying History at the University of Oxford. He then completed his MFA in Filmmaking at NYU Tisch School of the Arts where he received a graduate scholarship. He was selected for the 2022-23 Warner Bros. TV Writing Workshop, a pipeline program for TV writers in Burbank, California.
He has worked extensively as a documentary editor on projects such as Queenmaker (Hulu, 2023), Ask The Sexpert (Amazon Prime, PBS), and Gonzo @ The Derby, an ESPN 30 FOR 30 doc.
CINEMATOGRAPHER - SAHADEV KELVADI
Sahadev Kelvadi is an award-winning Director and Cinematographer from Bangalore, India, and a graduate of the MFA Film Production program from The NYU Tisch School Of The Arts. He was a nominee of The Volker Bahnemann Cinematography Award (2016) and co-founded Ameyukti Studios, an independent film production company based out of Bangalore. Sahadev was the Director of Photography and co-producer of Ameyukti’s first feature film, “Gantumoote”, which premiered at The New York Indian Film Festival (2019). He's also the Director of Photography of the popular Indian web series, Metropark. His first feature film as writer-director “Kenda” will be released in 2024.
Adrienne Collatos - PRODUCER
Adrienne Collatos is a documentary producer and archival producer whose films have premiered at Sundance (WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE?), Toronto (LOVE, MARILYN), Tribeca (LOUDMOUTH) and SXSW festivals (ANAS v the GIANT), and been distinguished with an Oscar nomination, Emmy, Grammy, and Peabody awards. She has story developed, produced, and managed archival research and licensing on films that tell broader social and cultural stories through the lens of individual’s stories as well as those of cultural figures, such as Al Sharpton, Nina Simone, Mel Brooks, Marilyn Monroe and M.I.A. In 2015 Adrienne was one of the inaugural six Impact Partners' Emerging Producer Fellows.
Shilpa Bisaria - PRODUCER
Shilpa Bisaria is a creative producer and media & entertainment executive. As VP of Global Corporate Strategy and Head of the Emerging Tech Accelerator at Warner Bros. Discovery, she works at the intersection of storytelling, innovation and content strategy. Previously, Shilpa spent almost a decade in innovation consulting at Innosight. She serves as a board member at both Koobrik Labs and e2AC (Entertainment 2 Affect Change). She leverages her deep understanding of the global media ecosystem to champion stories that resonate across cultural boundaries.
VAISHALI SINHA - EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Director, producer and impact producer of award winning feature docs Made in India and Ask The Sexpert. Distributed at PBS, Netflix, Amazon and international television networks. A proud Grierson Awards nominee for Best Entertaining Doc, Ask The Sexpert, and development consultant for academy winning short doc, Period.End.OF.Sentence. Founding member of Bitchitra Collective: Indian Women in Documentary.
Grantee of MacArthur Foundation, Fledgling Fund, ITVS, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Firelight Media, Tribeca Gucci Fund, Tribeca All Access, CAAM, Playboy Foundation, Nextpix etc. Speaker at Kartemquin Films, Pop Tech! Open Society, HBO/Gotham Institute Documentary Initiative and more. Alumna at Working Films, Firelight Media DocLab, Flaherty Seminar, and Gender and Rights Insititute by CREA (Creating Resources for Empowerment and Action.) Vaishali is a 2023 Bellagio Residency Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation.