Festival Team
Executive & Programming Director | Cary Rajinder Sawhney |
Deputy Director & Head of Birmingham Indian Film Festival | Dharmesh Rajput |
Festival Producer | Marta Calderon Quiñones |
Business Adviser | Milan Mantri |
Programmer | Ashanti Omkar |
Programmer | Krushil Patel |
Programmer | Nazeer Vawda |
Programmer | Tara Brown |
Sponsor & Partnership Manager | Himanshi Choudhry |
Production Manager | Gurmehar Anand |
Production Assistant and Print Traffic Coordinator | Filippo Di Battista |
PR Manager | Sanam Hassan |
Digital Marketing Consultant | Karen Lane |
Honorary Programme Adviser | Naman Ramachandran |
Programme Adviser | Uma Da Cunha |
Programme Adviser (LGBTQIA+) | Neeraj Churi |
Programme Adviser | Sanjay Ram |
Programme Adviser | Asjad Nazir |
Website Manager | Prinesh Mistry |
Senior Digital Editor | Parag Sankhe |
Receptions Manager | Dheeraj Agnihotri |
Manchester Project Manager | Danielle Porter |
Birmingham Assistant Project Manager | Polina Zelmanova |
Birmingham Volunteer Manager | Bhaskar Choudhury |
Birmingham Media Manager | Serena Patel |
London Outreach Manager | Aneesha Srinivasan |
Web and Design Manager | Robyn Larkin |
Web and Design Adviser | Andrew Whiteside |
Strategy Adviser | Chris Hainsworth |
Legal Adviser | Lee Stone at Lee & Thompson |
Indian Visa Consultant | D Kadikar |
Special thanks to our Brand Ambassadors and Patrons
Patrons:
Tony Matharu, Lord David Puttnam, Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Brand Ambassadors:
Festival Brand Ambassadors | Antonio Aakeel
Festival Brand Ambassadors | Sunny & Shay Grewal
Festival Brand Ambassador | Feryna Wazheir