Utsa Ghosh Kundu, a Bharatanatyam dancer, teacher and choreographer. Her secondary interests are Mayurbhanj Chhau and movements from Natyashashtra.
Nausheen studied Fine Arts in Delhi and did her Post graduation in Animation film design. She is currently studying arts in Cologne Media and Arts school, Germany. Just the way her education has exposed her to the various facets of visual arts, her works reflect the same. Be it character design or illustration, they are flooded with a plethora of elements which exudes a childlike element yet in an artistically evolved manner.
Bhawna Badola is an enthusiastic, proactive and dynamic professional with diverse experience of around 13 years to work in government, development and corporate sector. Moving from a technical, Research-Oriented professional to a project manager who manages teams and builds new programs. Bhawna enjoys challenges, listens carefully to advice but makes decisions independently.
Tushar Sonkar is an NID AP Graduate from the 2016 batch of Communication Design. He is currently working in Snow Leopard Conservancy - India Trust.
Dr Nigel Hughes has a Ph.D from the University of Bristol. His research areas are Paleobiology, Trilobite Paleobiology, Lower Paleozoic paleogeography and tectonics. An avid singer and ukulele player, his recent works include Whale evolution story through graphic narratives.
Vaibhav Kumaresh is the man behind Simpoo Singh, the famous 30-second cartoon series featured on Channel V, which tickled millions of Indians. Almost two decades later, Vaibhav is as enthused about animation and storytelling, as he was in his early days. When he was doodling the face of his teacher in class, little did he know that one day he’ll be known for that character, Simpoo Singh. Over the last two decades, he has contributed to some of arguably India’s favourite animated content in the field of TV commercials and channel promos. Whether it’s the Amaron Battery ad campaign, or Chulbuli for Clinic Plus, or the Vodafone Zumis, Vaibhav’s work has been bang on.
Anand Babu is an animatics artist and co-director working at Vaibhav Studios in Mumbai. Currently he is working on season 4 of “Lamput”, a show produced for Cartoon Network Asia. The show was created by Vaibhav Kumaresh, his boss and mentor. Currently, he is working from Thiruvananthapuram
In 2017, a group of individuals at Barcelona formed an Architecture and Planning Studio, Estudio El Palmeral, with intentions of carrying out artistic, participatory and architectural projects.
Moushumi Bhowmik is an Indian singer-songwriter, writer and researcher based in Kolkata, she is known to perform Bengali folk songs, as well as her own compositions. She has lived in many places since her childhood, including Shillong, Santiniketan, Kolkata and London, and extensively travelled in Bangladesh. Moushumi started her career as a journalist by joining The Statesman as a sub-editor. In 1996, she joined Stree, a Kolkata based independent publisher on gender and society, as an editor and began and developed Stree's Bengali titles. Moushumi began to write songs in Bangla in the 1990s. She has released four albums― Tumio Chil Hao (1994), Ekhono Galpo Lekho (2000), Ami Ghor Bahir Kori (2001), Songs from 26H (2017). She has composed for documentaries and art cinema. Bhowmik created The Travelling Archive, based on field recordings from Bengal. Moushumi Bhowmik submitted her PhD dissertation on 'Songs of Absence and Presence: Listening to the Arnold Bake Wax Cylinders from Bengal 1931-34' at Jadavpur University.
Cecilia Traslavia is an animator, visual artist with a masters in literature. She works as a professor and researcher in the Department of Visual Arts of the Javeriana University in Bogotá. Colombia. In her work, she explores childhood memories and the unconscious, leaning on nonlinear narratives with techniques from the visual arts and literature. She has collaborated with various artists and audiovisual schools in the creation of collective works that address diverse themes and genres from an experimental perspective. She has done curatorship on experimental animation in Colombia and Latin America, which have been presented in various stages nationally and internationally. She is an active member of Moebius-Animation, whose objective is to amplify the voices of Latin American experimental animation
Dr. Tsewang Namgail completed his BSc degree from the Jammu University in 1995, and MSc from the Punjab University, Chandigarh, in 1998. Thereafter, he pursued wildlife science at the University of Tromso, Norway, and obtained an MPhil degree in 2001. His research interests include community ecology, macroecology, behavioural ecology and human dimensions of wildlife. He also worked on agricultural pests, resource partitioning amongst mountain ungulates, wildlife-livestock interactions, carnivore-human conflicts and plant-herbivore interactions. He also collaborated with the International Snow Leopard Trust in conserving the snow leopard and its prey species.
