Namrata Joshi

Winner of India's National Award for Best Film Critic for 2004, she has contributed to several film journals and anthologies and recently came out with her first book, "Reel India: Cinema off the Beaten Track." She has been a member of the Fipresci critics' juries at numerous international film festivals. She has covered the Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Pingyao International Film festival and International Film Festival and Awards Macao. She has been on the selection committee at the International Film Festival of India, Goa, and on the juries at Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival and International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala. A winner of the Charles Wallace India Trust-Iqbal Sarin memorial fellowship, she has also been the winner of the British Chevening Scholarship for Indian Journalists.