Jury 2022

Kiran Rao is a film director and producer at Aamir Khan Productions, whose work has been well received globally. For 4 years, she was the acting Chairperson of the board of trustees at the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI). She is also Co-Founder of Paani Foundation, which works with rural communities in Maharashtra.

Pradip Krishen is an Indian filmmaker, author, naturalist and environmentalist. He has directed three films, Massey Sahib, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones and Electric Moon for Channel 4, UK. He subsequently gave up filmmaking, and since 1995, has worked as a naturalist and environmentalist.

Amit Masurkar is the director of SHERNI (2021), NEWTON (2017) and SULEMANI KEEDA (2014). NEWTON traveled to more than 70 film festivals globally and won several awards including the National Award. It was India's official entry to the Oscars in 2017.
His latest film SHERNI is about tiger conservation and the climate crisis. It was released on Amazon Prime Video and will be screened in November at ALT EFF 2022.

Dr. Anish Andheria is the President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Trust, a not-for-profit working in and around 160 national parks and sanctuaries in 23 states of India. He has co-authored two books on Indian wildlife and is part of the India Climate Collaborative, as well as the governing council of the 'Bombay Natural History Society'.

Lindsay is the Climate Program Director at a film and impact company called Exposure Labs, where she oversees the development and implementation of all climate work. She has spent 2 decades running local to global campaign offices for several organisations, developing dozens of digital and field campaigns for a variety of clients, working for community and transformational change. Lindsay leads with her values and grounds her work in the Jemez Principles of Democratic Organising, with particular emphasis on gender, climate, racial, and economic justice. She prioritises the knowledge, stories, lived experience, and solutions of those most harmed by injustice, and is committed to building capacity directly for communities carving towards a more just future.