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2022
Miriam Joseph
Educated in Africa, India, and Britain, Miriam has close to 30 years of experience in the media. After finishing film school at the University of London’s Goldsmith’s College, she started her career with the BBC and went on to become a broadcast journalist and documentary/drama producer with them. She spent the next many years working in Britain for several international television broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, ITV, The History Channel, Channel 5, WGBH, making investigative, political, and historical documentaries and drama/docs.
She moved to India to fulfill a long-held ambition of working on feature films and joined Excel Entertainment in Mumbai. Over the next few years, first as Executive Producer and then as CEO of the company, she demonstrated an ability to build, nurture and lead large multi-disciplinary teams to deliver some of the highest production values seen in Hindi cinema. Having shepherded several films from script to screen, Miriam is at home both with large-budget, star-driven films as she is with a smaller budget, independent films. She now acts as a Consulting Producer for a few production companies across their output, like Endemol Shine, Cinestaan India, Guru Pictures, Little Films, Arka Media, etc
Miriam is a regular visiting lecturer at a number of film schools incl, SRFTI, MIT, FTII, Annapurna, KRNNVISA. She was instrumental in setting up India’s first-ever Producing course at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute and designed its syllabus and curriculum. She also served as a member of the Academic Council there for 8 years.
Miriam also acted as a Consultant to the National Film Development Corporation & Film Bazaar, as well as being a mentor to their Screen Writers’ & Producers’ Labs from 2013 – 2018, and also vetted and recommended projects for the annual International Co-Production Market at Film Bazaar.
Miriam is a published author.
KIM Young-woo
Festival programmer, festival consultant, curator. Kim studied Visual Arts & TV at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. In 2014, he joined the selection committee of the Busan International Film Festival as a programmer in charge of Asian cinema until 2019. Working closely with Korean independent cinema groups, he has been a member of the Association of Korean Independent Film & Video. He recently joined Gangneung International Film Festival (Korea) as Head of Programming, and also a program advisor to LOCARNO, IDFA, Red Sea Film Festival, and more festivals in the EU.
Tibi
A tipi wonders about its purpose in modern life, and shows that as a home, it is the heart of its community. This short story demonstrates the process of teaching Îethka culture through the making of a tipi under the supervision of knowledge keepers. The Elders describe knowledge that is in the tipi, and also what was lost when people moved into homes. Today people in Mînîthnî face complex challenges related to housing, such as mold and toxicity, overcrowding, and inescapable domestic violence.
Love Death and Everything In Between
Experiencing their son’s life after his unnatural death while navigating their failing marriage; mourning parents Mira and Pradeep cannot overcome their grief but start to build their lives around it.
Aqueducts
Aqueducts transport water. Images transmit the memory. Images of aqueducts are useless.