Shirish Nene

Shirish Nene, Shirish Néné has served on the jury of the DC South Asian Film Festival every year since 2016, and can regularly be seen at this and other film…

Mansoor Ahmed

Mansoor Ahmed, Mansoor Ahmed (Moonie), DCSAFFs Technical Director, retired as the Division Director for Astrophysics at NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center. During the day he studies the stars and in…

Shilpa Sharma

Shilpa’s musical foundation was laid as a child in Mumbai when she learnt Hindustani classical music under Pdt. D V Jadhav. Throughout her school and college years, she performed in…

Arindam Ghosh

Arindam Ghosh is a filmmaker specializing in micro-budget films on Indian stories with a global theme. His first film, Shyamal Uncle Turns off the Lights, was world premiered at the…

Anshulika Kapoor

Anshulika Kapoor, also known as Anshulika Choudhuri, is a versatile and award-winning actor, producer, and TEDx performer who is dedicated to amplifying significant global stories, with a special emphasis on…

Shruthi Mukund

Shruthi Mukund brings more than 20 years of experience in arts programming, research, special events, and grassroots methods together with an equity lens to inform her work in socially accountable community…

Christina Marouda

Founded the festival as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit arts organization presenting in Los Angeles an annual film festival dedicated to Indian cinema. Created, developed, and expanded the now well-established and…

Chitra Banerjee

Chitra Banerjee is an Indian-born American author, poet, and Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage,…

Sarmad Khoosat

Sarmad Khoosat is a Pakistani actor, film/TV director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing the super-hit TV dramas Humsafar and Shehr-e-Zaat. He is considered to be one of the…