Editorial Team

Parthajit Baruah - Editor 

Parthajit Baruah is a film historian filmmaker and film practitioner. He has directed twelve documentaries which were screened at different film festivals. He authored seven books on films-- Chalachitror Taranga (2010), Face to Face: The Cinema of Adoor Gopalakrishnan (HarperCollins, 2016), Jyotiprasad, Joymoti, Indramalati and Beyond: History of Assamese Cinema (2021),  A History of India's North-East Cinema: Deconstructing the Stereotypes (Bloomsbury Academic, Jan, 2025), Aribam Syam Sharma: The Luminary of Indian Cinema ( Ukiyoto, 2025), Rediscovering Jyotiprasad Agarwala (2025). He did two research projects at the National Film Archive of India, Pune. He was at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland as a part of his research project. He presented papers at the international seminars, such as London, Ireland, Scotland, Dubai, Delhi. He was invited as a guest faculty  in MAHE, Dubai. He won State's Best Film Critic Award, given by Government of Assam. He moderated sessions with Indian actors Kamal Haasan, Siva Karthikeyan, Pratik Gandhi, Adil Hussain, Rima Das, filmmaker Rajkumar Perisamy in Canada, and Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasant Vithanage at GAFF, Assam. He was invited as a keynote speaker to speak on North-East films at Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, and MAHE, Dubai. His debut feature film is " Nellier Kotha" (The Nellie Story, 2023), based on the Nellie massacre.

Dr. Meena Longjam

Dr. Meena Longjam is a National Award Winning Filmmaker and a noted academic. She has fourteen years of filmmaking, academic research, and teaching experience. Dr. Longjam won the 2015 National Award for documentary filmmaking from former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee for her film, "Autodriver," which chronicles the struggles and victories of Imphal's first female Autodriver, Oinam Laibi. Additionally, she is the head of the Department of Culture Studies at the Manipur University of Culture.

Kivini Shohe

Kivini Shohe is a multiple award winning film maker from Nagaland. She is the President of the Film Association of Nagaland. She served as jury member in several film festival. Kivini Shohe is based in Dimapur, Nagaland, India. She is a graduate from North Eastern  Hill University, trained in Broadcast Arts (YWCA) and  did Films Appreciation  Course at FTTI, Pune. She has been making films, fiction/telefilms and documentary for almost 22 years now. She is a recipient of the Nagaland State Governor’s Award in the field of Arts (2014) .

Khanjan Kishore Nath

Khanjan Kishore Nath is a national award winning filmmaker. He was the recipient at the Asian Pacific Lab. He did his M.Phill in Mass Communication from Rajiv Gandhi Central University and did film making from Zee Institute of Media Arts, Mumbai. He made a few short films like “The Quest” (Surjya Sandhan), “Twilight” (Aporahno), “The Horizon” (Khuj), “Waiting For”, “If”, “Saknoia” (The River Flows), “Pistol” etc. His debut feature film is “Chor” (The Bicycle), and won several awards. His second feature film is "A Midday Without a Name" (2023).

Kalpa Jyoti Bhuyan

Film researcher Kalpa Jyoti Bhuyan obtained Masters' in Political Science from Gauhati University and in Mass Communication from Tezpur University. He writes film reviews and research papers in various periodicals on a regular basis. He has participated in the Rashid Irani Young Critics Lab 2021 organised under the 22nd Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. Currently, he is working as a guest faculty in the department of Mass Communication, Journalism and Media Studies at Cotton University.

Sanjib Das

Sanjib Das  is an Independent Filmmaker of Tripura. His first film An Intimate Relation was selected at Mumbai International Film Festival 2010, later on he made several non fiction films including "On a Roll" for PSBT Films Division, selected at IFFI 2015, MIFF 2018 and various film festivals.