A sought-after Writer, Director, Media Strategist, sought-after TEDx speaker, Life Coach, Social Entrepreneur, Gender-Animal and Environment Activist, and one of the driving forces behind the Make Earth Green Again MEGA Foundation, Pawsitive Farm Sanctuary, and Zindagi Helpline, Dr. Anusha Srinivasan Iyer is a woman of multiple facets!
Best known as a Firebrand Journalist with a golden
heart, Dr. Anusha is a Global Award-winning Writer-Director. Her ‘Saare Sapne
Apne Hain’, a film on child labour, hope and happiness, won rave reviews across
borders winning over 128 awards and having been screened in over 150 national
as well as international film festivals!
Her organisation, Make Earth Green Again, MEGA
Foundation, strives to protect the planet with a mission to reverse the
environmental damage caused by mankind. She, in her myriad ways, not only
repaints the Earth green but also mobilises and inspires the youth to stand up
for the same!
Serving as a catalyst in bringing responsible
like-minded individuals, environmental activists and organizations together,
Anusha works closely in association with the government and its ministries for
citizen welfare. She is also known for her stance on the issues of tribal
welfare, senior citizen safety, rehabilitation of acid attack victims and her
work towards gender equality, LGBTQ empowerment, street children welfare,
participation in conclaves and inspirational talks, filmmaking with a cause and
youth life coaching among many others.
Anusha Srinivasan Iyer has also earned respect for
her commitment towards social, environmental as well as cultural causes. For
the same, she received numerous awards, accolades and recognition as the winner
of the Life’s Real Heroes awards of India in 2019, The Economic Times Icon
Award for Strategic Brandmaker and Social Entrepreneurship, The Mid-Day Icon Awards,
christened as the “Queen Bee of Brand Strategy” by Forbes India among others.
She is also the recipient of the International WEE Women Excellence Empowerment
Award, National Excellence Award, Women of Influence Award, People’s Excellence
Award, Inspire Award, Mukkti Foundation Achievers' Award and many others.
On her work front, Anusha Srinivasan Iyer is the
Founder and Mentor of Naarad PR & Image Strategists, one of India's premier
PR, Brand Strategisation and Image management agencies, besides being the Brand
Custodian of respected actors. A strong
believer that if you want to do something, you make time for it, Anusha also
writes and directs films as well as pursues a fruitful life of social activism.
Actor, Model, Speaker & Panelist
Winner of several important international prizes for films that he made, Film director Valmir Tertini is based in Tirana, Albania. After his basic studies, he completed his higher studies for medial arts in Pristina and later a master's degree in film and television at the Academy of Arts in Tirana. His projects have been part of hundreds of festivals around the world. He has conducted some workshops in Europe for the 7th Art, Cinema. Founder of the educational project for younger students, SKENA workshop, a training in the field of cinematography. Coordinator of DoART organization in Tirana as well as a Lecturer at the university in the liberal arts department, directed film & mass communication, he is the winner of 19 international and 3 national prizes. He writes for TV and movies in newspapers in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia and has published four books.
JALALADDIN GASIMOV (AZERBAIJAN)
Award winning Writer, Director, Mohan Das apart from film making has successfully conducted the Lakecity International Film Festival, Gwalior over the years has now widened his horizons by taking the concept of film festivals to various cities across India and the globe. With Lakecity being a yearly event well entrenched on to the scene, he is all set to promote Indian Cinema, Art and Culture onto a global platform by joining hands and collaborating with a multitude of film festivals in many countries or offering support to a host of upcoming festivals across the world. K Asif Chambal International Film Festival is an offshoot of the same idea that aims at bringing the science, art and emotion through world cinema to the people of Chambal valley.
He has run short film competitions and workshops, organised screenings for international feature films, and is also working as the festival consultant for feature films. With so much of experience to gather, it was natural for him to be invited on many a film festival as jury including LHIFF International Film Festival (Barcelona), The North Film Festival (New York), Coal City International Film Festival (Nigeria), Frames Film Festival (Mumbai), Nilofer-e-Aabi International Film Festival (Iran/ Mumbai), Aahan International Short Film Festival (Mumbai), Kala Samruddhi International Film Festival (Mumbai), Cotton City International Film Festival (Akola), Acharya Tulsi Short Film Festival (Bikaner), Cortokino International Film Festival (Mumbai) and others.
