Metropolis

Anupama Srinivasan is a filmmaker, film educator and curator based in Delhi, India. She did her BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and went on to study filmmaking at the FTII, Pune. She has been making documentaries for over two decades, often shooting and editing her own work. Her films have been screened at various film festivals including Sundance, CPH, Hot Docs, IDFA, Thessaloniki, MAMI, Busan, Festival des 3 Continents, Sheffield, TIDF, 100 Years of Cinema Centenary Festival, Yamagata, Dokufest Kosovo, FIPA Biarritz, MIFF, and Film Southasia Kathmandu.  Flickering Lights, the feature documentary that she co-directed, shot and edited received the Best Cinematography Award at IDFA international competition 2023. Nocturnes that she co-directed and co-edited, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024 where it received the Special Jury Award for Craft. Anupama is one of the recipients of the Chicken & Egg Award 2025. His work has received support from Sundance, Catapult, Doc Society, IDFA Bertha, Visions Sud Est and other funds. She was the Festival Director of the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival for three years (2013-15), and of the Peace Builders International Film Festival in 2016.

Anirban Dutta is a filmmaker, still photographer and a media educator based in Delhi, India. He set up the film company, Metamorphosis in 2003. He has directed and produced several documentary films and created many photographic essays. His films have traveled to various film festivals including Sundance, CPH, Busan, IDFA, Hot Docs, Sheffield, DOC NYC, MAMI, FEstival des 3 continents, New York Short Film Festival, San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival, Yamagata, Al Jazeera, and MIFF. He was part of the Eurodoc Training Program for Creative Producing in 2021. He was also part of Film Independent’s Global Media Makers LA Residency in 2022 with the Nocturnes. The film premiered at the Sundance in 2024 and went on to be shown at over 60 festivals across the world, winning awards at Sundance, Thessaloniki, Mumbai and others. Flickering Lights, the feature documentary that he co-directed and produced received the Best Cinematography Award at IDFA international competition in 2023. Anirban has been a Visiting Artist at the University of Boise, Utah, USA (2009), Stanica Slovakia (2013) and exhibited in University of Lima, Peru (2007) in addition to having exhibitions in India.

A veteran of the independent film scene, Ryan Krivoshey founded the award-winning distribution company Grasshopper Film in 2015, hailed as “one of the most artistically daring of distributors” (The New Yorker). The company has released films by celebrated directors including Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Albert Serra, Pedro Costa, Agnes Varda, Tsai Ming-liang, Pietro Marcello, Hong Sangsoo and Claire Denis, along with ground-breaking documentaries such as the Academy Award–nominated Last Men in Aleppo, The Hottest August, Black Mother, Nocturnes, Sweetgrass, Bisbee ’17, and Leviathan. In 2024, Ryan co-founded a new production company, Correspondent, where he serves as President. Committed to supporting artistic, cinematic and boundary-pushing filmmaking, the company’s debut slate features fiction and non-fiction projects from around the world. Ryan has been invited to participate on festival juries, panels, and mentorship programs for the Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, IDFA, True/False, The Gotham, DOC NYC, South by Southwest, RIDM, Locarno, and others.