Vikram Kolluru
Vikram Kolluru, Vikram Kolluru works for Thermo Fisher Scientific as an automation systems design engineer by profession. As someone with a great affinity to socialize and deep passion to utilize…
Kallol Mukherjee
Kallol Mukherjee is a filmmaker from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, currently based in Mumbai, with over a decade of experience in the industry. A film institute dropout, actively working across independent…
Professor Priya Vashist
Priya Vashist is a filmmaker and an Assistant Professor of Film at Old Dominion University. Priya’s film work focuses on social justice and representation of queer South Asian immigrants on…
Pooja Chawla
Pooja Chawla is a Playwright, Actress, and Theater Educator who hails from DC, but is currently living in LA. She’s most recently known for her short play An Altered State…
Zen Dot
Zen Dot is an award winning actor, writer, and filmmaker based in NYC. Zen’s films hold women at the center of all stories. She writes comedy and drama and tries…
Shireesh Khemariya
Shireesh Khemariya is an Indian film director, best known for his critically acclaimed feature film Who Am I (2023), which garnered widespread recognition at several international film festivals. A graduate…
Professor Hemal Trivedi
Hemal Trivedi (India/U.S.) has been editing and directing films for 20 years. Her entire body of work has won one Oscar, three Emmys, one Peabody and seven Emmy nominations, a…
Professor Priya Vashist
Priya Vashist (she/ they) is a filmmaker and an Assistant Professor of Film at Old Dominion University. Priya’s film work focuses on social justice and representation of queer South Asian…
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…