NETPAC JURY

One of the founder members of NETPAC India, she helped in organizing Film Appreciation Courses, Screenplay Workshops, film weeks from Asian countries (South Korea, Iran, Turkey) and retrospectives of filmmakers like Omer Kavur and Prasanna Vithanage.  Indu was the Co-director along with Aruna Vasudev of Cinefan, the Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema since its inception in 1999 and helped in the growth of the festival. She was the Festival Director of the 10th and 12th editions of Osian’s-Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, New Delhi. Since November 2022, she is Trustee, Tuli Research Centre for India Studies.  Indu is also Trustee, Saraswati Vidyak Trust; Member, Managing Committee of Modern Senior Secondary School, Patiala. Editor, Chinmaya Mission New Delhi News Bulletin; and Trustee, Zariya Foundation, India which assisted in the Indo-Swiss coproduction of the film, Mother Teresa and Me directed by Kamal Musale. 

 

 

Film expert, professor, Honored Artist of Armenia, Secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of Armenia. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Yerevan State University and accomplished postgraduate studies of the Moscow Institute of Art. From 1973 to 1983 she worked on the board of the Union of Cinematographers of Armenia as a chairman of creative sections and secretary. Since 1977 he has been teaching at Yerevan Pedagogical University. Since 1996 she has been a member of FIPRESCI. From 2006 to 2011 she was vice-rector for scientific and academic affairs at the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinema. From 2011 to 2012 she was vice-rector for international relations and innovations of the same institute. From 2013 to the present, she is the dean of the Faculty of Cinema, Television and Animation at the Yerevan State Institute of Technology and Culture. She is an international expert on university accreditation and is the author of numerous articles and books on film and television.

 

 

Film expert, journalist. In 2020 - 2021 – selection committee member of the short film competition of the Russian-British Sochi International Film Festival and Award (SIFFA). Since 2018 she has been a researcher in the department for the development and testing of film education methods at the VGIK research center. She is involved in film club work, conducts lectures and master classes. Author of scientific articles on the history of Soviet cinema, as well as a curator of the laboratory of the VGIK student film club. Since 2023 she has been the programming director of the Lendoc International Film Festival of Russia and CIS countries, which includes competitions for feature and non-fiction films, and is also the programming director of the Khabarovsk International Film Festival “Gold of Umalta,” which focuses on the cinema of the Far East.