Meet the Jury Members of the 2023 MAMI Mumbai Film Festival6 of 10
Latika Padgaonkar | NETPAC Jury
Latika Padgaonkar is a columnist, editor, translator, former Joint Director of Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival, and former Executive Editor of Cinemaya, the Asian film quarterly. She was a foreign correspondent for The Telegraph in Paris in the 1980s; she has also worked for UNESCO in New Delhi and for the National Commission for Women’s Media Group. Currently, she is a member of the Media Foundation.
A PhD from the University of Sorbonne, Paris, she taught at Fergusson College in Pune and Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. A jury member at several national and international film festivals and for the National Film Awards as well, she has organised – as a PIC member – film festivals at the National Film Archive of India.
Latika Padgaonkar has co-edited – among other books – Being & Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia, An Asian Film Journey: Selections from Cinemaya, Kenji Mizogchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema, and Making News, Breaking News, Her Own Way. She has translated The French in India: From Diamond Traders to Sanskrit Scholars and Sujata Bajaj – L’Ordre du Monde.
Latika Padgaonkar is a columnist, editor, translator, former Joint Director of Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival, and former Executive Editor of Cinemaya, the Asian film quarterly. She was a foreign correspondent for The Telegraph in Paris in the 1980s; she has also worked for UNESCO in New Delhi and for the National Commission for Women’s Media Group. Currently, she is a member of the Media Foundation.
A PhD from the University of Sorbonne, Paris, she taught at Fergusson College in Pune and Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. A jury member at several national and international film festivals and for the National Film Awards as well, she has organised – as a PIC member – film festivals at the National Film Archive of India.
Latika Padgaonkar has co-edited – among other books – Being & Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia, An Asian Film Journey: Selections from Cinemaya, Kenji Mizogchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema, and Making News, Breaking News, Her Own Way. She has translated The French in India: From Diamond Traders to Sanskrit Scholars and Sujata Bajaj – L’Ordre du Monde.