PISFF 2022: Jury

After graduating from the Xavier Institute of Communication, kicked off her career at Equinox Films, assisting Sumantra Ghosal and Ram Madhvani. She worked on a multitude of TV commercials before she branched out as a freelance casting director and production designer, in 2002.

In 2007 Monalisa co-founded Little Lamb Films with husband Bauddhayan and has been the pivot of the boutique production house. She has worked on commercials that have won at Cannes, One Show, LIA, Spikes, Effies, Goafest amongst others.  Monalisa is the producer and production designer of three of Little Lamb Film’s feature films – Teenkahon (2014), The Violin Player (2016) and The Cloud & The Man (2021).

Monalisa has been in the jury of the SHOTS – AsiaPacific 2021 and National Film Awards 2019. She has also directed the award-winning documentary short “Kiske Liye” and is currently scripting her debut feature film.

After completing BE in Electronics and Telecommunications from Mumbai University, Vijay did PG Diploma in Film Editing from FTII, Pune. Prior to this he was selected for the Film Appreciation Course organised by NFAI, Pune. His FTII films as an editor ‘Aaranyak’ and ‘Airavat’ have won National Film Awards. So far he has made half a dozen short films like Rang, Mukti, Pan Supari, Need, A Tail Story etc. and all of them won prestigious awards at various film festivals.

He was associate director of Hindi movie – Hamne Jeena Sikh Liya. He is one of the founders of Spandan Parivar Cinema Movement that has been inspiring and motivating aspiring young filmmakers. He has worked with Paani Foundation of Aamir Khan as the Creative Associate (Writer – Editor). He was the Creative Director of Abhiyaan, socio-political event company. He was the visiting faculty at Digital Film Academy, Mumbai. He has just completed his debut  feature film as the Director – ‘Kurla to Vengurla’ in Marathi.

Narendra is multi-media journalist since 1999. He worked with various organizations and handled crucial positions. He worked as Editor Input with Zee 24 Taas; with Maharashtra1 as News Editor; with yourstory.com as Assistant Editor; with Broadcast Initiatives as Associate Editor, with Network18 as Head Input Desk, Mumbai and with Zee Business as Producer at Mumbai. Presently he is the director of Amity University, Mumbai.

He is actively working in the field of digital media strategy, content development for TV news and websites as well as media research since 2015. He is member of FIPRESCI. He has attended many international film festivals and film markets. He has interviewed filmmakers like Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Pablo Larraine, Majid Majidi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Many more.

He is pursuing PhD from Dept. of Mass Communication and Journalist, University of Mumbai with research topic – Mafia In Hindi Cinema Post Liberalization – A Study.

He has penned a book on ace Hollywood director Stanley Kubrick – ‘KUBRICK’ in Marathi.