TEAM ENGENDERED

Myna
Myna Mukherjee
Director/ Curator

MYNA MUKHERJEE is a cultural producer, curator, and the founder/Director of Engendered, a New York/New Delhi based Transnational Arts and Human rights organisation with a focus on the intersections of gender and marginalities in South Asia. She is interested in art curation as a feminist practice, an instigation/investigation and reflection of aesthetics and visual spectacle, as means towards subversion of a hegemonic culture. A management strategy consultant by training, Myna left a successful career on Wall Street, to produce and curate the best in contemporary South Asian art, cinema and performance festivals in New York. She has curated internationally at the Lincoln Center, Asia Society, Tribeca Film Center, Queens Museum, and others. For the India Chapter of Engendered, she initiated Delhi’s first and only alternative art space that served as one of the first gallery and artist residency dedicated to incubating a space for cultural production around issues of gender, sexuality and rights for marginalities for over 5 years. She has curated some of India's most prolific touring visual arts exhibitions, and brought to Delhi North America's largest South Asian Human Rights film festival, I View World in 2016. In 2019 Life Style Asia magazine listed her as one of the top 5 curators revolutionising the Indian art scene. In 2020 she was invited to co-curate Hub India, a survey program representing the contemporary art and eco-system of India for Artissima, one of Italy's most pivotal art fairs.

Jitin
Jitin Hingorani
Strategic Partner & PR Director

Jitin Hingorani is the Founder and Festivals Director of TWO prominent South Asian Film Festivals in the United States – Dallas/Fort Worth SAFF & New York City SAFF. He also serves as the Principal/CEO of JINGO Media, a boutique PR, marketing and events management firm focused on film, arts, entertainment and fashion. His clients have included Toyota USA, Wells Fargo, AARP, Hotstar, United Breweries Group, The Times of Money Group, New York Indian Film Festival, I-View World Film Festival, Sikh International Film Festival, Indo-American Arts Council, Fashion Designers Sabyasachi, Anita Dongre and Masaba, Celebrity Chef Vikas Khanna and Jewelry Designer Amrita Singh. His PR efforts have led to media coverage on the Oprah Winfrey Show, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Good Morning America, Variety, New Yorker Magazine, Time Out, Huffington Post and several other major mainstream and South Asian media outlets. Jitin is also the Senior Entertainment Reporter/Anchor for Asian Variety Show (AVS), the longest-running Bollywood entertainment program in the U.S., with a viewership of 66 million households. In his television career, Jitin has covered and/or managed more than 100 celebrity red carpets and interviewed the likes of Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel, Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor, Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Deepak Chopra, just to name a few. He received his degrees in Broadcast Journalism and English Literature from The University of Texas at Austin and Oxford University in the U.K. In his spare time, Jitin enjoys watching British crime dramas and reviewing global independent cinema.

Aseem
ASEEM CHHABRA
Programme Consultant

ASEEM CHHABRA is the author of the biographies of Shashi Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, and the recently released Irrfan Khan: The Man, The Dreamer, The Star. A film journalist in New York City and New Delhi, he has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mumbai Mirror, Rediff.com, The Hindu, Outlook, BBC.com, Quartz, Scroll, Newslaundry. He’s been a commentator on Indian cinema on NPR, CNN, BBC, CBC, ABC’s ‘Good Morning America.’ Aseem is the festival director of the New York Indian Film Festival, the largest and the oldest festival in North America. He is the voice of Shadow Puppet #1 in director Nina Paley's acclaimed animated film, Sita Sings the Blues.

SHEFALI
Shefali Mehrotra
Programme Coordinator

Shefali Mehrotra started her professional career as an editor with The Times Of India. She moved from working with a media house to working in the field of content aggregation. She was part of digital media’s most rapidly expanding industry and led teams for two international startups in New Delhi NCR. She has been working with Engendered for the past two years and facilitated coordinating with teams from conception to execution of Engendered’s projects.

HARIS
Haris Jeelani Toogo
Multimedia Intern

Haris Jeelani Toogo I am a Freelance Multimedia Journalist currently based in Kashmir. Presently I am Pursuing Bachelor's in Multimedia and Mass communication at a prestigious Media Institute Government Degree College Baramulla, Kashmir. I have three years of experience in filmmaking, skilled with photography, cinematography, Multimedia Journalism with a good sense of Photo and Video Editing. I have been doing Photography for the last four years. I always move out of my comfort zone to capture life, landscape, Portraits, streets and Human interest stories.

Chicago
Chicago
Contact  Us

For festival & event related queries: info.engendered@gmail.com

For PR & Media:

USA

JINGOmedia

jitin@jingomedia.com

1.512.773.6679 (U.S. mobile & Whatsapp )

INDIA

Indranil Roy

indranilroy.delhi@gmail.com