1. Shefalee Jain is an artist, illustrator and educator based in Delhi, India. She has exhibited widely in India and abroad (www.jainshefalee.com). She taught Visual Art as Assistant Professor at the School of Culture and Creative Expressions (SCCE), Ambedkar University Delhi (India), 2012-2022. She completed her Practice based PhD in Visual Art, in 2021.
Shefalee is the co-founder of BlueJackal (www.bluejackal.net), a platform for engaging with and creating visual narratives, comics, picture books and initiating dialogue and learning within these contexts through interactive programs. She is the co founder and co editor of the zine Drawing Resistance.
She is also a children's book illustrator who has illustrated several books published by Indian publishing houses such as Tulika, Eklavya, Muskaan and DC books. She writes a regular column on art in Hindi, in a children's magazine, 'Chakmak' , published by Eklavya, Bhopal, India.
2. Shivi Bhatnagar is a Cinematographer, currently working in New Delhi, India. She has been executing various film and documentary projects in India and other parts of the world. She is passionate about film production and tries to encapsulate art and technology in her work. She believes in collaboration, art of story-telling and exploring cultural dimensions & offbeat narratives in her cinema. She is also a member of Indian Women Cinematographers’ Collective (IWCC).
Shivi started her cinematography path soon after she came out of master’s college by working on various genres like corporate, events, ads, short fiction content and her favourite being documentaries. Some of the notable projects are as follows:
a)The Great African Caravan (Ongoing Documentary)
b)Qulfi (Director of Photography and Editor) The film was nominated in - The Lift - Off Sessions 2021, Hollywood International Golden Age Film Festival March 2021, Cullt Movies International Film Festival 2021 and First - Time Filmmaker Sessions 2021. Qulfi is now available on MX Player to watch.
c) Colours of Bliss (Director of Photography)