Meenakshi Shedde is an independent film curator, film festival consultant, film critic, film director and journalist based in Bombay/Mumbai, India.
She is India Consultant to the Berlin and Dubai Film Festivals. She has also been Curator of Asian, Indian, Bollywood, and World Cinema packages for international festivals worldwide, including the Pusan International Film Festival-S. Korea, Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival-S. Korea, International Film Festival of India (IFFI-Goa), Mumbai Film Festival and Made By Women Film Festival.
Winner of the National Award for Best Film Critic, she has been on 15 international juries on almost every continent, including the FIPRESCI International Critics’Jury of the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Oberhausen Film Festival; NETPAC Asian Jury of the Berlin Film Festival; International Jury of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina; Asian Film Award Jury of the Hong Kong International Film Festival; Taipei Film Festival Jury, Intl Jury, Up-and-Coming International Film Festival Hannover, Germany; National Film Award Jury of India, and Indian Panorama Jury of International Film Festival of India (IFFI, Goa).
She has 25 years’ experience in journalism, including 11 years in the Times of India group, where she was Assistant Editor. She freelances for Variety, Film Comment, Cineaste (US); Cahiers du Cinema (France); Sight and Sound, bfi.org.uk (UK); Times of India, Screen,DNA, Tehelka, Cinemaya, dearcinema.com (India); Carte di Cinema (Italy), rouge.com.au (Australia) and Celluloid (Bangladesh). She has written for the books Au Sud du Cinema (Cahiers du Cinema/Arte), ‘Bollywood: Das Indische Kino und die Schweiz’ (Museum fur Gestaltung, Switzerland), and Import Export (Cultural Transfers Germany-Austria-India, Berlin, Parthas, 2005). She has also directed a short film ‘Looking for Amitabh’ and line-produced five documentaries for Arte/independent directors worldwide shot in India, including Uli Gaulke’s German documentary Comrades in Dreams (Leinwandfieber, Arte), nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Festival, 2007.
Email: meenakshishedde@gmail.com
Mobile: +91.9833148347
http://meenakshisheddeartsandculture.blogspot.com
Address: 103 Mangal Aadesh, 4th Road, TPS III, K-11 Gym Lane, Near Khar Subway, Santa Cruz East, Mumbai 400055, India
