RIFFA Jury 2024

Rwita Dutta is a Professor, Film Critic and Editor. She has graduated
from Presidency College, Kolkata and did her Masters’ from Calcutta
University. She teaches Political Science in a graduate college under
Calcutta University, (Maharaja Manindra Chandra College) She is also a
member of International Film Critics’ Association i.e. Fipresci. Presently
she is editing a book on Indian Regional Films. She is the Editor of the
International film journal “FilmBuff” (www.filmbuff.co.in). She is
working on her doctoral thesis titled “City and Cinema”from Rabindra
Bharati University at present. She has visited many International film
festivals worldwide to deliver lectures and to take part in several
seminars and symposiums on cinema. She has served as the Jury
Member in Osian's Cinefan Festival Delhi, in 2006, participated in the
Documentary Film Festival in Turkey as a delegate in 2007, Kiev
International Film Festival, Ukraine in 2007 as a Jury, Cairo
International Film Festival in 2010, Delivered lectures in Macedonia in
2010,Been in the Jury in Busan International Film Festival, Korea in
2011, Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival in 2012 and Cannes
Film Festival in 2013 as a Fipresci juror, as a curator in the Poland Film
Festival,2016,Women’s film festival ,Aswan(Egypt),2017 as a Jury,
Participated as a invited guest in Hanchen-Zinzhang International Short
and Documentary Film Festival China in 2017 and others. and presented
Indian films as a Curator in Zubrofka International Film Festival Poland
in 2016. She has conducted Master class at the Almaty Film Festival,
2018, worked as a Jury in the BRICS film festival, 2019, Rio de Janeiro.
In 2020, she delivered a lecture in the BRICS forum during Moscow
International Film Festival. Acted as a Juror in two online International
Film Festivals in 2020. She is a regular contributor in various academic
journals, web magazines worldwide.