Festivals Academy

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British Council

Festivals Academy is a professional development programme by the British Council covering core skills of festival business management and arts practice. It is aimed at developing entrepreneurial capacity for the burgeoning festivals' enterprise economy in India.

The Festivals Academy is for emerging festival managers and creative leaders working alongside established festivals and arts leaders.

https://www.britishcouncil.in/programmes/arts/festivals-for-future/festivals-academy

Festivals Academy Members

Vaishali Bisht

Artistic Director • Hyderabad Childrens Theatre Festival

Vijay Kumar Tadakamala

Director • Hyderabad Literary Festival

Tej Brar

Founder/Director • Third Culture Entertainment

Tandra Chandra

Artist / Festival Manager • Green Wave Centre for Visual Arts.

Supriya Gupta

Co-Founder • Ragasthan Festival

Shubhankar Mazumdar

Director • Calcutta International Short Film Festival

Shivani Darbari

Asst. Producer • Drama School Mumbai

Shataakshi Verma

Festival Director • Gender Unboxed • she/her

Sandhya Mendonca

Founder/Director • Raintree Media

Ritam bhatnagar

Founder Director • India Film Project

Rheanne Dsouza

Arts manager • British Council

Noreen Van Holstein

Founder Director • La La Land

Nirav Chahwla

Festival Founder Curator • IFACE 2020 (Surat)

Nikita Teresa Sarkar

Artist & Facilitator • Co-founder, Falana Films | Founder, SICCA Collective | Technical Director, Tantidhatri Festival • she/her

Bangalore, 🇮🇳 India

Nasir Engineer

Artistic Director • Improv Comedy Bangalore

Martin Dsouza

Director / Primary Artist • Lighthouse Entertainment | International Clown Festival

Karon Shaiva

Chief Impact Officer • Idobro RISE Fest

Madhu Muthuthodi

Senior Resource Manager • Attakalari Centre for Movement Arts | Attakalari Biennale

Gayatri N

Founding Trustee & Director of Operations • Chennai Photo Biennale, FOUNDATION • she/her

Ela Gupta

Outreach Head • Sahapedia

Faiza Hasan

Education Coordinator • Kochi Biennale Foundation

Rashmi Ranjan

Founder/Director • Kalinga Festival • he/him

New Delhi, India

Deepti Bansal

VP Revenue and Operations • Kommune | Spoken Fest

Deepthi Pendurty

Arts Manager • Dharamshala International Film Festival

Jonathan Kennedy

Programme Lead Venice. Former Director Arts India • British Council

Martin D'Souza

Varun Gupta

Chennai Photo Biennale

Siddhant Shah

Sankalita

British Council

Kamya Ramachandranrgtfd sss RzdzNFC

Founder-Director, BeFantastic.in, Previously Director - Jaaga DNA, Faculty, Public Space Design - Srishti • BeFantastic.in • she/her

Past Events

7 - 9 PM, Mar 27 (2021)

Film Screening @ Harkat Studios

Harkat Studios, an international boutique arts studio based in Mumbai and Berlin, will host a film screening followed by conversation with filmmaker Varsha Panikar at …

4 - 6 PM, Mar 26 (2021)

Instagram Live session hosted by Nazariya

An Instagram Live session hosted by Nazariya:QFRG with LGBTIQ+ activists and filmmaker Varsha Panikar.

2 - 4 PM, Mar 26 (2021)

Five Films For Freedom - Anaajoree

Anaajoree partners with the Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University to host a screening in the university campus, followed by a discussion with faculty members. …