Monteiro Anjali

• MA (MCS) Image Making I and II
  
• MA (MCS) Working with Video I and II
• Dip. In Gerontology, Media and Ageing

Awards:

• From the Diary of a Genetic Counsellor, Best Programme Award, Open/General category, Fifth UGC Country-wide Classroom Video Festival, 1992, Hyderabad
• The Plot Thickens…, First Prize and the award for Individual Technical Excellence in Editing, Sixth UGC Country-wide Classroom Video Festival, 1993, Calcutta
• Identity- The Construction of Selfhood, Prix Futura Berlin 1995, Asia Prize Prix Futura Berlin 1995- International Radio and Television Festival; Second Prize, Education and Literacy category, International Video Festival on Science, Society and Development , September, 1995, Thiruvanathapuram
• Odhni- A Collective Exploration of Our Selves, Our Bodies, Second Prize, Health and Population category, International Video Festival on Science, Society and Development, September, 1995, Thiruvanathapuram.;
• Kahankar: Ahankar, Jury's Special Mention at the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), 1996
• YCP 1997, Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) 1998 and the Jury’s Award for Best Innovation, Astra Festival of Anthropological Documentary Film, Sibiu, Romania, 1998
• Saacha, Second Prize, New Delhi Video Forum, 2001
  
  SheWrite, Best documentary Prize, IV Three Continents International Documentary Festival, Venezuela 2005 and Indian Documentary Producers Association Awards 2005: The First Technical Award for Sound Design
  
  Our Family, Special Jury Award, Signs Film Festival, Thiruvananthapuram, 2007, Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International
  Film Festival 2008, Indian Documentary Producers Association (IDPA) Gold for Best Sound Design, Gold for Best Script, Silver for Editing and Certificate of Merit for the best documentary.
  
  Do Din Ka Mela, Indian Documentary Producers Association (IDPA) Gold for Best Script and Certificate of Merit for the best documentary.
• SheWrite, Best Film Award, 2nd Sadho Poetry Festival, 2010

Fellowships:

• ICSSR Doctoral Fellow, CSDS Delhi and Goa University, 1987-90
• Visiting Fellow, University of Bergen and Oslo, 1999
• Howard Thomas Memorial Fellow in Media Studies, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, 2000
• Fulbright International Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
• PSBT Films Division Fellow, 2010

• 1999 - present: Professor and Chair, Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
• 1983-1999:  Reader, Unit for Media and Communications
  
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  The Centre’s mandate encompasses media production, research and education. The work involves teaching courses in media and cultural studies and video production; handling various aspects of professional video production, including research, script, production co-ordination and editing; supervision of M.A/M.Phil./Ph.D. dissertations and engaging in media research and writing.
  
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• 1979 -1983: Producer, Astha, Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai
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• 1978-79: Lecturer in Economics, Sophia College, Mumbai
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• 1977-78: Lecturer in Economics, MVLU College, Mumbai
  

Have directed several research based films on a variety of themes that problematise the  notions of self and the other, of normality and deviance, of the local and the global, through the exploration of diverse narratives and rituals.

• Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, The Spectator-Indian - An Exploratory Study of the Reception of News, Cultural Studies 10(1), January 1993.
  
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  The Adventures of Goll Goll- On the Rights of the Child, TISS, 1992.
  
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  Reflections on My Family, TISS, 1994.
  
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  Towards People-Centred Development, co-eds, M. Desai & L. Narayan, Mumbai, TISS, 1998.
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• Official Television and Unofficial Fabrications of the Self: The Spectator as Subject in Nandy, Ashis (ed.), The Secret Politics of Our Desires, OUP, 1998.
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• Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, India: The News of the State and the State of the News in Jensen, K.B. (ed.) The News of the World, Routledge, 1998.
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  Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A. Between the Normal and the Imaginary - The Spectator-self, the Other and Satellite Television in India, in Hagen, I and Wasko, (ed.,) Consuming Audiences: Production and Reception in Media Research, Hampton Press, 2000.
  
  Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., Documentary and Ethnographic Film, Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier. 2001. 
• Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., The Plot Thickens – A Cultural Studies Approach to Media Education in India, in Tony Lavender, Birgitte Tufte and Dafna Lemish (eds.) Global Trends in Media Education, Hampton Press, 2003.
  
  Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., Censorship ke Peeche Kya Hai, in Nalini Rajan (ed) Practising Journalism, Sage, 2005.
  
  Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., Jai Ho Shanghai- The Invisible Poor in Slumdog Millionnaire in Kumar Ashwani et al eds Global Civil Society Yearbook, LSE and Sage, 2009.
• Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, A New Pair of Scissors- the Draft Cinematograph Bill 2010, Economic and Political Weekly
  Volume 45, Number 29, July 17-23, 2010.
  
• Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, Imaging Mumbai, in Vimal Shah and Pankaj Joshi (eds) Revisioning Mumbai, Asiatic Society, Mumbai, 2010

Jointly with Prof. K.P. Jayasankar, have produced, scripted, edited and directed over 35 documentary films that have won 22 awards and have been screened widely at national and international film festivals on national and international television and in a variety of other contexts. Vibgyor Film Festival, Kerala and Bangalore Film Society organised retrospectives of their body of work in 2006 and 2010 respectively.

• Pani Panchayat
  1986, U-matic (PAL), 50 mins.
  
• New Directions in Medical Social Work: Community Health
  1987, U-matic (PAL), 60 mins.
  
• The Young Workers
  1987, U-matic (PAL), 1 hrs. 40 mins.
  
• Tanda
  A Document on the Denotified Tribes in Maharashtra
  1988, U-matic (PAL), Part I and II, 60 mins
  
• The Fifth Schedule
  1988, U-matic (PAL), Part I & II, 44 mins
  
• Lage Jiva Ghar Ghar A Document on Women and Shelter
  1990, U-matic (PAL), 44 mins.
  
• From the Diary of a Genetic Counsellor
  1991, U-matic (PAL), 30 mins.
  
• Magra Mewar Vikas Sanstha
  1991, U-matic/(PAL), 68 mins.
  
• One Hundred Years Of Drought
  1993, U-matic (PAL), 21 mins.
  
• Sudha Police Station Gayi Thi:
  On the Demystification of Police Procedures for Women
  1992, U-matic (PAL), 16 mins.
  
• Odhni: A Collective Exploration Of Ourselves, Our Bodies
  1993, U-matic(PAL), Col., 23 mins.
  
• The Plot Thickens…
  1993, U-matic (PAL), 14 min.
  
• Identity
  The Construction of Selfhood
  1994, U-matic(PAL), 20 mins.
  
• Punarvasan
  A Document on Reconstruction in Post-earthquake Marathwada
  1995, U-matic(PAL), 58 mins.
  
• Kahankar : Ahankar (Story Maker : Story Taker)
  1995, U-matic (PAL), 38 mins.
  
• YCP 1997
  1997, U-matic (PAL), 43 mins
  
• The Striders
  U-matic (PAL), Col., 7 mins, 1997
  
• Water to the People
  Towards Community Participation in Rural Drinking Water Schemes
  U-matic (PAL), Col., 34mins., English, Marathi, 1998
  
• Jungle Tales
  Surviving Development in Uttara Kannada
  Beta, 52 mins., English,1999
  
• Self Representation
  DV, 5 mins, English, 2000
  
• Saacha (The Loom)
  DV, 49 mins., English, 2001
  
• Reconstructing Communities
  DV, 52 mins, Part I &II, English, 2002
  
• Naata (The Bond)
  DV, 45 mins., English, 2003
  
• Mumbai
  DVCam, 10 Mins, English, 2004
• SheWrite
  DVCam, 55 mins, Tamil and English, 2005
• Breasts
• DVCam, 10 mins, Tamil and English, 2005
• Trees
• DVCam, 10 mins, Tamil and English, 2005
• Agreement
• DVCam, 10 mins, Tamil and English, 2005
• Elephant Story
• DVCam, 10 mins, Tamil and English, 2005
• Unheard Voices
  DVCam, 27 mins, English, 2006
• With the People
  DVCam, 5 mins, English, 2006
• Becoming Salma
  DVCam, 21 mins, Tamil and English, 2006
• Gender Unpack
  DVCam, 28 mins, English, PSBT, 2006
  (Concept and Executive Editor for this series of 4 short films)
  
• Our Family
  DVCam, 56 mins, English, 2007
• Memory.Space
  DV, 90 secs, 2009
• Irani Restaurant Instructions
  DV, 3 mins, English, 2008
• Do Din ka Mela
  HD, 60 mins, English, 2009
• Climate Justice for All
  DV, 16 mins, English, 2009
  
• A Short Film on Rain
  DV, 2 mins, 2009
• So Heddan So Hoddan (forthcoming, HD, PSBT)
• Like Here, Like There
• HD, 52 mins, English, 2011

Outreach Work

• Have been visiting faculty at leading design and media institutions including the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, where courses taught / workshops conducted include media and cultural studies, documentary theory and production

• Have taught at the University of California at Berkeley, USA (course on documentary film in India) and Lahti School of Design, Finland (course on documentary production); have given talks and screened films at over 15 U.S. Universities and several Universities in the U.K., Finland, Norway and Germany.

• Actively involved in designing and conducting workshops in critical media education for a range of groups, including school and college students, teachers, activists etc.

• Designing and conducting training for media persons on sensitive reporting on HIV/AIDS for UNDP in Ethiopia, 2004.

• UNDP consultant for curriculum enhancement for the Addis Ababa University, School of Journalism and Communication, undergraduate division, involving review, training and production of manuals, 2006-07.

• Video production for International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 2001-02.

• Active in Vikalp and Films for Freedom, a campaign of over 250 documentary filmmakers opposing censorship in India.

• Commissioned by PSBT to produce and direct documentary films.

• Consultant to the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust for project evaluation, in 2001, 2008 and 2009.

Association with Professional and Voluntary Organizations

• Trustee and President, Managing Committee, AVEHI, Audio-Visual Resource Centre, Bombay

• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Creative Communication, Sage

• Member, Editorial Board, Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series, Routledge

• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, USA

• President’s Nominee, Selection Committee, Jharkhand Central University, School of Communications and Journalism
  

• Member, PUKAR Institutional Ethics Committee

• Member, National Selection Committee for 2011-2012 Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowships for Leadership Development
• Member, Search Committee for Director of Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad, 2009
• Former Member, Academic Council, Tripura University

• Former President’s Nominee, Selection Committee, AJK – MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

• Former Member, Programme Advisory Committee, NCERT, New Delhi

• Former Member, Society of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla