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In Alphabetical order
Festival Curators
Film Critic & Editor
Musician / Label Head of Big Bang Music
Doodle artist, Illustrator 
Baradwaj Rangan
Raghav Meattle
Santanu Hazarika
Previously on IFP's Stage
Season 13
Writer and Comedian
Illustrator
Actor & Content Creator
Actress
Filmmaker
Digital Creator
Filmmaker
Travellers and Entrepreneurs
Actor
Content Creator
Journalist, Podcaster, Writer
Designer
Director, Actress
Actress
Podcaster, Journalist, Writer, and Voice Over Artist
Journalist and Novelist
Digital Creator
Writer and Director
Film Director and Screenwriter
Journalist, Author
Writer
Actress
Doodle artist, Illustrator
Director and Screenwriter
Journalist
Writer
Creator and Host
Filmmaker & Screenwriter
Mentalist
Actor & Comedian
Writer
Filmmaker
Youtuber, Actor and Content Creator 
Aakash Shah
Alicia Souza
Ankush Bahuguna
Anna Ben
Anusha Rizvi
Ashish Dawar
Ayappa KM
Bruised Passports
Dhruv Sehgal
Dolly Singh
Genesia Alves
Jayesh Sachdev
Konkona Sensharma
Kubbra Sait
Mae Mariyam Thomas
Prayag Akbar
Pulkit Kochar
Reema Maya
Ritesh Batra
Rituparna Chatterjee
Rohini Kejriwal
Rytasha Rathore
Santanu Hazarika
Satyanshu Singh
Saurabh Dwivedi
Shrayana Bhattacharya
Smriti Kiran
Sudhir Mishra
Suhani Shah
Sumukhi Suresh
Trivarna Hariharan
Vikramaditya Motwane
Vishnu Kaushal
Season 12
Photographer, Youtuber and Climate Activist
Editor, Sunday Mid-Day
Entrepreneur
Stand-up Comedian, Writer, and Podcaster
Head of Schbang Motion Pictures, Producer, and Writer
Comedian and Writer
National Creative Director at Schbang
Singer
Director, Writer and Actor
Founder and Host of The DeshBhakt, and Content Creator
Singer and Digital Content Creator
Singer & Songwriter
Journalist
Author, Diplomat and Columnist
Actor
Dancer and Content Creator
Filmmaker
BDM at Pantone & Fashion Designer
Internet Entrepreneur and Content Creator
Music Producer
Filmmaker
Author
Music Producer, Songwriter and DJ
Actress
Poet, Gender Equality Activist
Translator
Podcaster and Content Creator
Film Journalist & Writer
Filmmaker, Writer, Producer
Creator, Writer, Director, Acting Mentor and Casting Director
Photographer
Social Media Influencer, Choreographer, and Dancer
Founder of Finnet Media, Content Creator and Podcaster
Film Critic & Editor
Content Creator & Youtuber
Author
TV Anchor, Theatre Personality, Comedian, Political Satirist, Columnist, Podcaster and Author
Screenwriter
Director, Screenwriter, and Actor
Editor-in-Chief at Vice India, Writer and Brand Strategist
Film Editor and Content Creator
Actress & Screenwriter
Actor and Director
Dean and Professor of TISS's School of Media and Cultural Studies
Filmmaker
Politician, Author and Speaker
Neurologist and Youtuber
Sexual Wellness Content Creator
CDO at Designlab, Designer and Illustrator
Actor and Producer
Founders of Funcho Entertainment, Content Creators, Social Media Influencers
Assistant director & Actor
Actor & Ad-Filmmaker
Director & Screenwriter
Writer, LGBTQ+ Activist
Actor
Artist and Designer
Musician
Writer
Startup Operator, Columnist and Poet
Entrepreneur
Director, Actor and Lighting Designer
Screenwriter and Director
Music Technology Educator and Mastering Engineer
Content Creator and Designer
Screenwriter, Lyricist and Creative Producer
Writer and Director
Writer & Lyricist
Filmmaker, Screenwriter
Media Consultant
Writer & Director
Filmmaker
Content Creator
Podcaster, Journalist, Writer, and Voice Over Artist
Actor, Writer, and Director
Professor of English
Co-Founder of Hashtag Ply, Social Media Influencer, Content Creator
Film Critic
Vlogger and Social Media Influencer
Journalist and Author
Journalist
Actress, Dubbing & Voice-over Artist
Gamer and Content Creator
Comedian
Sr. Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy and Comedian
Content Creator and Musician
Music Composer & Producer
Singer, Songwriter and Music Composer
Film Director, Actress, and Voice Over Artist
YouTuber, Content Creator and Actor
Investor, Author and Content Creator
Ad-Filmmaker
Music Producer, Educator, and Musician
Poet, Lyricist and Screenwriter
Filmmaker & Screenwriter
Photographer
Composer, Music Producer, and Mixing & Mastering Engineer
Musician / Label Head of Big Bang Music
Photographer
Musician
Investor & Creator
Singer & Songwriter
Founder, Editor at Dead Ant
Actor
Film Critic & Talk Show Host
Director, Writer
Assistant Editor of Rolling Stone India
Radio Jockey
Actor
Anchor & Journalist
Content Creator
Content Creator and Comedian
Regional Manager at Pantone
Singer, Songwriter, Composer
Doodle artist, Illustrator
Influencer, Content Creator and Angel Investor
Content Creator
Actor
Journalist
Head of TVF Originals, a Showrunner, and Writer
Content Creators
Youtuber
Art Director and Production Designer
Director and Writer
Content Creator
K-pop Star
Film Critic
Photographer
YouTube and Gamer
Musical Band
Screenwriter, Director, and Producer
Deputy Director of Film and Adventure Tourism, Madhya Pradesh Tourism
Filmmaker
Actor
Entrepreneur
Author
National Head of Sales & Marketing at ProMusicals and Audio Engineer
Music Composer 
Aakash Ranison
Aastha Atray Banan
Aayush Tiwari
Abbas Momin
Abhimanyu Balasubramanyam
Aditi Mittal
Aditya Mehendale
Akanksha Bhandari
Akarsh Khurana
Akash Banerjee
Aksh Baghla
Akshath Acharya
Aleesha Matharu
Amish Tripathi
Amol Parashar
Anam Darbar
Anand Gandhi
Ankita Kothari
Ankur Warikoo
Anshuman Sharma
Anubhuti Kashyap
Anuja Chauhan
Anyasa
Apoorva Arora
Aranya Johar
Arunava Sinha
Aryaan Misra
Aseem Chhabra
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Atul Mongia
Avani Rai
Awez Darbar
Ayush Shukla
Baradwaj Rangan
CA Rachana Ranade
Christine Leunens
Cyrus Broacha
David Wappel
Deepak Kumar Mishra
Dhvani Solani
Dipraj Jadhav
Divya Jagdale
Divyang Thakkar
Dr. Lakshmi Lingam
Dr. Sailesh Kolanu
Dr. Shashi Tharoor
Dr. Siddharth Warrier
Dr. Tanaya Narendra
Eureka Alphonso
Faisal Malik
Funcho
Gagan Arora
Gajraj Rao
Gauri Shinde
Gazal Dhaliwal
Geetanjali Kulkarni
Hanif Kureshi
Hanita Bhambri
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Harnidh Kaur
Harshil Karia
Hidayat Sami
Hitesh Bhatia
Hozaifa Sayed
Hrishiraj Sugre
Jaideep Sahni
Jasmeet K. Reen
Javed Akhtar
Kabir Khan
Kajal Gadhia Budhbhatti
Karan Anshuman
Leena Yadav
Leeza Mangaldas
Mae Mariyam Thomas
Makarand Deshpande
Makarand R. Paranjape
Manav Chhabra
Mayank Shekhar
Meghna Kaur
Meghnad S
Mohar Basu
Mona Shetty
Mythpat
Neeti Palta
Neville Shah
Nikhil Paralikar
OAFF
Osho Jain
Pooja Bhatt
Prajakta Koli
Pranjal Kamra
Prashant Godbole
Premik Jolly
Puneet Sharma
R Balki
Radhakrishnan Chakyat
Ragasur
Raghav Meattle
Raghu Rai
Rahgir
Raj Shamani
Raja Kumari
Ravina Rawal
Regina Cassandra
Renil Abraham
Richie Mehta
Riddhi Chakraborty
RJ Prerna
Rohit Saraf
Rudrani Chattoraj
Ruhee Dosani
Saloni Gaur
Sam Shalgaonkar
Samarth Swarup
Santanu Hazarika
Sharan Hegde
Sharin Bhatti
Shashank Arora
Shoma Chaudhury
Shreyansh Pandey
Slayy Point
Smriti Sant
Snigdha Karmahe
Sonam Nair
Srishti Dixit
Sriya Lenka
Sucharita Tyagi
Sudharak Olwe
The Rawknee
The Yellow Diary Musical band
Tom Schulman
Umakant Choudhary
Vaibhav Munjal
Vijay Varma
Viraj Sheth
Vivek Tejuja
Vivin Kuruvilla
Yashraj Mukhate
Season 11
Aahana Kumra
Actor
Aastha Atray Banan
Editor, Sunday Mid-Day
Aastha Khanna
Entrepreneur, Producer, Storyteller, Advocate for safety on set
Aastha Tiku
Writer
Aayush Tiwari
Talent Head, Monk E
Abhinandan Sridhar
Writer
Abhinav Krishnaswamy (The F16s)
Musician
Abish Mathew
Comedian & YouTuber
Achowe
Ad-Filmmaker
Aditya Balani
Co-Founder GMI
Akhil Katyal
Creative writer, Poet, Teacher, Translator
Akshata Samant
Showrunner
Alam Khan
Actor
Alankrita Shrivastava
Showrunner
Amandeep Singh
Writer & Storyteller
Amish Tripathi
Author, Diplomat and Columnist
Andaleeb Wajid
Author
Anjana Vaswani
Journalist
Ankur Pathak
Journalist
Ankur Tewari
Lyricist/ Musician
Anmol Ahuja
Casting Director
Anpu Varkey
Artist
Anuja Chauhan
Author
Anurag Tagat
Journalist
Anuv Jain
Musician
Aparna Sud
Production Designer
Apurva Asrani
Showrunner
Aranya Johar
Poet, Gender Equality Activist
Ashwin Gopakumar
Singer, Songwriter and frontman for the Indie - pop band When Chai Met Toast
Ashwin Suresh
Founder - Pocket Aces
Asif Kapadia
Filmmaker
Atul Chouthmal
Storyboard Artist
Atul Churamani
Founder and Managing Director of Turnkey Music & Publishing Pvt. Ltd, the only standalone music publisher in India.
Avichal Singh
Game Designer
Ayush Mehra
Actor
Baradwaj Rangan
Film Critic & Editor
BeYouNick
YouTuber & Content Creator
Bhanu Pratap Singh
Writer Director
Bhavna Roy
Author
Bhuvan Bam
Comedian & YouTuber
Brodha V
Rapper, Hip-Hop Music Producer
Chhavi Sachdev
Podcaster
Dar Gai
Director, producer and a founder of Jugaad Motion Pictures
Derek D’Souza
Artist
Dev Raiyani
Arist
Devaiah Bopanna
Ad-Filmmaker
Dheer Momaya
Director
Dhruv Sehgal
Actor
Dolly Singh
Content Creator
Dualist Inquiry
Musician
Emily Flake
New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake
Emma Donoghue
Writer and Screenwriter
Emraan Hashmi
Actor
Garima Kunzru
Content Creator
Gayatri Bhardwaj
Artist
Gazal Dhaliwal
Writer, LGBTQ+ Activist
Guneet Monga
Producer
Gurmehar Kaur
Writer
Hanif Kureshi
Artist and Designer
Hanita Bhambri
Musician
Hanumankind
Musician
Hardik Mehta
Writer & Filmmaker
Harsh Mittal
Marketing Head - Punjab Tourism
Hemant Bhandari
Producer
Himank Gaur
Director
Hozaifa Sayed
Music Technologist
Hussain Haidry
Writer & Spoken Word Poet
Jai Undurti
Writer
Jasleen Royal
Musician
Jay Krishnan
Director
Jay Pei
Musician
Jerin Paul
Cinematographer
Kamiya Jani
Founder of Curly Tales
Kanika Dhillon
Screenwriter & Author
Karan Kanchan
Musician
Kausar Munir
Lyricist / Screenwriter
Kayan
Musician
Kevin Lee
Editor in Chief at Yuvaa
Khushboo Ranka
Filmmaker
KissNuka (Anushka Manchanda)
Musician
Laurie Pressman
VP of Pantone
Leena Yadav
Filmmaker
Lifafa
Singer, Music Producer, Songwriter, Frontman of Peter Cat Recording Co.
Lisa Mishra
Musician
Mahesh Narayanan
Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Film Editor
Maitrayanee Mahanta
Content Creator
Manjul
Cartoonist
Manoj Shah
Theartre Director
Marianne Krawczyk
Screenwriter
Masoom Minawala
Fashion Entreprenuer
Mayank Shekhar
Film Critic
Mayur More
Actor
MC Altaf
Musician
Mehek Malhotra
Designer and Visual Artist
Mita Kapur
Writer
Mithila Palkar
Actor
Mohar Basu
Journalist
Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub
Actor
Nadine Strossen
Former President of ACLU
Naman Sarawagi
Founder of Refrens
Navdeep Singh
Director, Writer, Ad-maker
Neil Sadwelkar
Editor, Technology- consultant to filmmakers
Niharika NM
Content Creator
Nikhil Taneja
Entrepreneur
Nikita Dutta
Actor
Nikkhil Advani
Filmmaker
Nirali Kartik
Lead Singer / Co-Founder of the band MaatiBaani and a classical vocalist
Nirmika Singh
Music Critic
Nischay Parekh
Musician
Nishant Matta
Photographer, Creative Director, Producer
Nitin Malik
Founding member, singer, songwriter for Parikrama
Osheen Siva
Artist
Osho Jain
Singer, Songwriter and Music Composer
Pragash Vengatesan
Founder & Managing Director
Pranit Sahni
Director
Prasad Bhat
Aritst
Prateek Kuhad
Musician
Prateek Vats
Filmmaker
Praveen Kandregula
Director of Cinema Bandi (Netflix)
Puneet Batra
Writer
Pushpendra Nath Misra
Ad - Filmmaker
R. Madhavan
Actor and Filmmaker
Rachita Taneja (Sanitary Panels)
Cartoonist
Rafael Pereira
Managing Partner, TINNUTS and Intellectual Property Strategist at the intersection of Law & Business relating to Technology, Entertainment, Arts & Culture.
Raghav Meattle
Musician / Label Head of Big Bang Music
Raghav Subbu
Director
Raj Shamani
Investor & Creator
Rajesh Kava
Voice actor
Ranjan Raj
Actor
Ranveer Allahbadia
Entrepreneur
Ravina Rawal
Founder, Editor at Dead Ant
Ravinder Singh
Author
Renil Abraham
Film Critic & Talk Show Host
Revathi Pillai
Actor
Ritviz
Musician
Rohan Joshi
Comedian
Rohit Gupta
Filmmaker
Rohit Raj
Entrepreneur
Ronnie lahiri
Producer
Rony D’costa
Creative Director at Ramesh Sippy Entertainment
Ruchi Narain
Ad-Filmmaker
Ruhee Dosani
Content Creator
Sakshi Shivdasani
Content Creator
Saloni Gaur
Content Creator and Comedian
Sameer Ramesh
Co-founder of MyCaptain
Santanu Hazarika
Doodle artist, Illustrator
Satish Acharya
Cartoonist
Sayani Gupta
Actor
Seema Pahwa
Director
Shakun Batra
Story-teller, Writer, Director, Producer
Shalmali Kholgade
Singer & Songwriter
Sharin Bhatti
Content Creator
Shoojit Sircar
Director
Shreya Mehta
Actor
Shubhangi Swarup
Writer
Siddhant More
Ad-Filmmaker
Siddharth Gupta
Creator of Kitabi Karwan
Siddhesh Gautam
Visual Designer
Sidhant Gandhi
Designer
Sidharth Jain
Co-founder of The Story Ink (TSI)
Sneha Ramesh
Co-Founder & Content head at The Score Magazine
Srishty Ranjan
Activist
Suchin Mehrotra
Film Journalist
Sudeep Lahiri
VP - Content & Strategy at One Digital Entertainment
Sukanya Agrawal
Music Journalist
Suman Thakur
VP- Technical Services at Sennheiser India & Head of Technical Application Engineering
Swanand Kirkire
Lyricist
Taapsee Pannu
Actor
Taneesha Mirwani
Content Creator
Tanya Appachu (Your insta Lawyer)
Lawyer, Content Creator
Tara Khandelwal
Writer & Editor
Tarini Shah
Content Creator
Tarsame Mittal
Founder - TM Talent Management
Tarun Khiwal
Fashion Designer
Tej Brar
Entrepreneur
Tom Perrotta
Author of Election, Little Children, The Leftovers, and Mrs. Fletcher.
Tuheena Raj (Wordsofworth)
Writer
Umesh Bist
Screenwriter
Urvi Singh
Actor
Vicky Kaushal
Actor
Vikram Bawa
Photographer
Vikramaditya Motwane
Filmmaker
Vir Das
Comedian, Actor
Vishakha Singh
VP of WazirX
Volker Schmitt
Manager Technical Application Engineering at Sennheiser
William Seighart
Poet
Season 10
Aastha Atray Banan
Editor, Sunday Mid-Day
Abe Kislevitz
Creative Director of Media, GoPro HQ
Abhinandan Sekhri
Entrepreneur & Co-Founder of Newslaundry.
Abhishek Banerjee
Actor & Casting Director
Adil Hussain
Actor
Aditya Varma
Filmmaker and Director of Photography
Ahsaas Channa
Actor
Akash Banerjee
Political Satirist & Social Media Entrepreneur
Aki Spadaro
Musician
Alankrita Shrivastava
Showrunner
Alok Sharma
Artist & Co-Founder of Indusverse
Amit Doshi
Entrepreneur & Co-Founder of IVM Podcasts
Amol Parashar
Actor
Amritpal Singh Bindra
Producer
Anand Tiwari
Filmmaker
Anant Singh Bhatu
Actor & Writer
Andrew Jones
Sound Mixer & Brand Developer at Deity
Anjum Rajabali
Screenwriter
Ankur Pathak
Journalist
Ankush Bahuguna
Actor & Content Creator
Anurag Kumar
CCO at Tata Sky India
Aparna Purohit
Head of India Originals, Amazon Prime Video
Apurva Asrani
Showrunner
Aranya Johar
Poet, Gender Equality Activist
Arati Kadav
Filmmaker
Arjun Kartha
Photographer & Filmmaker
Arunabh Kumar
Founder of TVF & Indusverse
Aseem Chhabra
Film Journalist & Writer
Ashvini Yardi
Producer
Ashwin Gopakumar
Singer, Songwriter and frontman for the Indie - pop band When Chai Met Toast
Avinash Tiwary
Actor
Baradwaj Rangan
Film Critic & Editor
Barkha Singh
Actor & Content Creator
Bejoy Nambiar
Filmmaker
BeYouNick
YouTuber & Content Creator
Bhavesh Mandalia
Filmmaker & Writer
Bhumi Pednekar
Actor & Climate Change Warrior
Brodha V
Rapper, Hip-Hop Music Producer
Cauvery Rajagopal
Entrepreneur
Chetna Vasishth
YouTuber & Educator
Cyrus Broacha
TV Anchor, Theatre Personality, Comedian, Political Satirist, Columnist, Podcaster and Author
Daniel Jain Raj
Vlogger
David Jones
Author
Dhruv Rathee
YouTuber & Educator
Divyenndu
Actor
Dolly Singh
Content Creator
Durin Gleaves
Product Manager of Audio at Adobe
Gajraj Rao
Actor & Ad-Filmmaker
Garima Kunzru
Content Creator
Gaurav Bansal
Content Creation & Brand Marketing for Business
Gautham Menon
Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Producer
Gorky M
Director, Photographer & Producer
Gregg Barbanell
Foley Artist
Guneet Monga
Producer
Hansal Mehta
Filmmaker
Hrishikesh Pingle
National Product Manager (Professional Audio) at Sennheiser India.
Jai Undurti
Writer
Jaideep Ahlawat
Actor
Janice Sequeira
Content Creator & Anchor
Jim Sarbh
Actor
Kabir Akhtar
Editor & Director
Kalpesh Revawala
Technical Artist
Karan Anshuman
Writer & Director
Karthik Nagarajan
Filmmaker & Educator
Karthik Subbaraj
Filmmaker & Writer
Kartik Shah
Music Composer
Kavita Rajwade
Entrepreneur & Co-Founder of IVM Podcasts
Kevin Lee
Editor in Chief at Yuvaa
Kirti Kulhari
Actor
Kriti Kharbanda
Actor
Kshitij Sheetak
Filmmaker & Photographer
Kusha Kapila
Content Creator
Lalitha Suhasini
Journalist
Lifafa
Singer, Music Producer, Songwriter, Frontman of Peter Cat Recording Co.
Maanvi Gagroo
Actor
Madhu Trehan
Journalist
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
Actor & Advocate
Mantra
Artist
Manu Pillai
Author v
Mayank Shekhar
Film Critic
Mikey McCleary
Music Composer & Producer
Mira Nair
Filmmaker
Mohar Basu
Journalist
Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub
Actor
Mounica Tata
Writer & Illustrator
Navjot Gulati
Writer & Filmmaker
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Actor
Neha Dhupia
Actor & Podcast Host amongst many others
Niels Stevens
Senior Solution Consultant - Adobe UK
Nikhil Mehrotra
Writer & Director
Nikhil Taneja
Entrepreneur
Nirmika Singh
Music Critic
Nupur Sharma
Editor at Indusverse Graphic Novels
Padmanabhan NS
Artist & Label Partnership Head at Spotify India
Pankaj Tripathi
Actor
Penn Masala
Acapella Group