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Season 11 Line-up coming soon

Some of the most prolific speakers from the world of films, literature, music and digital have climbed IFP's stage in the past. IFP's programming team works throughout the year to ensure some of the best conversations happen on IFP's stage, and our speakers make them alive :)

In Alphabetical order

Festival Creative Director

Previously on IFP's Stage

Aakash Shah

Founder at One Hand Clap and Social Media Head at AIB

Aastha Khanna

Entrepreneur, Producer, Storyteller, Advocate for safety on set

Aastha Tiku

Writer of the feature film Sherni, streaming on Amazon Prime video.

Abhinandan Sekhri

Entrepreneur & Co-Founder of Newslaundry.

Akash Banerjee

Political Satirist & Social Media Entrepreneur

Amit Doshi

Entrepreneur & Co-Founder of IVM Podcasts

Aparna Purohit

Head of India Originals, Amazon Prime Video

Ashwin Gopakumar

Singer, Songwriter and frontman for the Indie - pop band When Chai Met Toast

Atul Churamani

Founder and Managing Director of Turnkey Music & Publishing Pvt. Ltd, the only standalone music publisher in India.

Chaitanya Chinchilikar

Vice President – Business Development, Whistling Woods International Ltd,

Chhitra Subramaniam

Senior Vice President Creative & Production at Kross Pictures, Inc.

Danny Wang

Creative Director, Content Creator, GoPro

Dar Gai

Director, producer and a founder of Jugaad Motion Pictures

Gaurav Bansal

Content Creation & Brand Marketing for Business

Gurpreet Singh

Co-Founder & COO at One Digital Entertainment

Guru Vaidya

Senior Solutions Consultant, Adobe Systems

Hrishikesh Pingle

National Product Manager (Professional Audio) at Sennheiser India.

Karan Singh

Chief Operating Officer of Percept Live.

Referred to by CNN as 'India's most dangerous filmmaker’, his films are urgent, politically charged, sexually explicit and will provocate and shock you. From Gandu to Garbage, one of the most controversial indie-filmmakers in India - Q.

Kavita Rajwade

Entrepreneur & Co-Founder of IVM Podcasts

Kelvin Cheung

Chef

Kevin Lee

Writer & Editor at Yuvaa

Khushboo Ranka

Screenwriter

Kiku Sharda

Comedian & Actor

Kiran Manral

Author

Kirti Kulhari

Actor

Kriti Kharbanda

Actor

Kshitij Sheetak

Filmmaker & Photographer

Kubbra Sait

Actor & Host

Kunal Kapoor

Actor

Kunal Kohli

Actor & Director

Kunal Roy Kapoor

Actor

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

Makarand Deshpande

Actor

Mallika Dua

Actor, Writer & Comedian

Manan Desai

Comedy Factory

Manasi Parekh

Actor & Producer

Manish Mundra

Producer

Manisha Lakhe

Film Critic & Poet

Manoj Bajpayee

Actor

Mantra

Artist

Manu Joseph

Author

Manu Pillai

Author v

Matt Ma

GoPro Creative Producer

Mauli Singh

Producer

Mayank Shekhar

Film Critic

Mayur Puri

Filmmaker & Actor

Meenakshi Shedde

Film Critic & Journalist

Meghna Pant

Author & Journalist

Mehak Mirza Prabhu

Storyteller

Mikey McCleary

Music Composer & Producer

Mikhil Musale

Filmmaker

Mira Nair

Filmmaker

Miten Udeshi

Ch4 Studios

Mithila Palkar

Actor

Mohar Basu

Journalist

Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub

Actor

Mounica Tata

Writer & Illustrator

Mukesh Chhabra

Casting Director & Filmmaker

Naezy

Rapper

Nagesh Kukunoor

Filmmaker

Namrata Rao

Editor, Actor & Director

Naseeruddin Shah

Actor

Navdeep Singh

Director, Writer, Ad-maker

Naveen Kasturia

Actor

Navjot Gulati

Writer & Filmmaker

Navzar Eranee

Director, Founder at Walkabout Films, Co-Founder at IncInk Records

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Actor

Neel Adhikari

Composer

Neha Dhupia

Actor & Podcast Host amongst many others

Neil Sadwelkar

Editor, Technology- consultant to filmmakers

Nidhi Bisht

Actor & Casting Director

Nidhi Singh

Actress

Niels Stevens

Senior Solution Consultant - Adobe UK

Nikhil Jain

Content Creator

Nikhil Mehrotra

Writer & Director

Nikhil Taneja

Entrepreneur

Nikita Deshpande

Author

Nikkhil Advani

Filmmaker

Nirali Kartik

Lead Singer / Co-Founder of the band MaatiBaani and a classical vocalist

Niren Bhatt

Writer & Lyricist

Nirmika Singh

Executive Editor, Rolling Stone India

Nitesh Tiwari

Filmmaker

Nitin Baid

Editor

Novoneel Chakraborty

Author

Nupur Sharma

Editor at Indusverse Graphic Novels

Omung Kumar

Film Director

Padmanabhan NS

Artist & Label Partnership Head at Spotify India

Pankaj Bhadouria

Chef

Pankaj Tripathi

Actor

Parvin Dabas

Actor & Producer

Patrick Graham

Filmmaker

Penn Masala

Acapella Group

Pooja Dhingra

Pastry Chef & Entrepreneur

Pooja Kachela

Pooja Ladha Surti

Writer and Editor

Prahlad Kakkar

Filmmaker

Prajakta Koli

YouTuber & Content Creator

Prashant Godbole

Ad-Filmmaker

Prateek Vats

Filmmaker

Pratik Gandhi

Actor

Pratik Sinha

Journalist

Pratish Nair

Founder- Prahlad Kakkar School of Branding & Entrepreneurship

Praveen Kandregula

Director of Cinema Bandi (Netflix)

Priti Shahani

Producer

Priyam Saha

Content Creator

Priyanka Khimani

Lawyer - Co-Founder & Lead Partner of Anand & Anand & Khimani

Pulkit Kochar

Content Creator

Pulkit Samrat

Actor

R. Madhavan

Actor and Filmmaker

Rachita Arora

Singer & Music Composer

Radhakrishanan Chakyat

Photographer

Radhika Madan

Actor

Rafael Pereira

Intellectual Property Strategist at the intersection of Law & Business relating to Technology, Entertainment, Arts & Culture.

Raghav Gupta

MD- Coursera

Raghu Karnad

Journalist

Rahul Desai

Film & TV Critic

Rahul Singh Datta

Artist & Director

Raj Khatri

Artist

Raj Nidimoru

Writer, Director & Producer

Raj Shekhar

Lyricist & Poet

Raja Sen

Film Critic

Rajeev Masand

Film Critic & Journalist

Rajesh Krishnan

Storyteller

Rajiv Menon

Filmmaker

Rajkummar Rao

Actor

Rajshri Deshpande

Actor

Rakhee Vaswani

Chef and proprietor at Palate Culinary Studio

Ramit Batra

Photographer

Rangita Pritish Nandy

Producer & Showrunner

Ranveer Allahbadia

Content Creator

Rashmi Agdekar

Actor

Rasika Dugal

Actor

Ratna Pathak Shah

Actor, Director & Educator

Ravi Jadhav

Filmmaker

Ravina Rawal

Founder & Editor at Dead Ant

Ravinder Singh

Author

Renil Abraham

Film Critic & Talk Show Host

Resul Pookutty

Sound Designer & Editor

Revathi Pillai

Actor

Ritika Bhatia

Media & Communications Specialist

Ritvik Sahore

Actor

Ritviz

Musician

RJ Nyssha

Radio Presenter, Poet & Digital Creator

RJ Rohini

Digital Host & Content Creator

Rochelle D’Silva

Spoken Word Artist

Rohini Ramnathan

Digital Host & Content Creator

Ron NG

GoPro Trainer

RS Prasanna

Filmmaker

Ruchir Arun

Cinematographer

Rudrani Chattoraj

Anchor & Journalist

Saameer Mody

Pocket Films

Sachin Mohite

Filmmaker & Producer

Sagar Ballary

Filmmaker

Samdish Bhatia

Anchor and Creator at ScoopWhoop Unscripted. Runs around parks chasing old people and occasionally chills with veteran politicians.

Sameer Nair

CEO, Applause Entertainment

Sameer Pitalwalla

CEO, Culture Machine

Sameer Saxena

Producer & Writer

Samit Basu

Novelist & Filmmaker

Sandeep Modi

Filmmaker

Sanjay Gupta

Writer, Editor, Studio Head & Co-Founder of Raj Comics

Sanjyot Keer

Chef & Content Creator

Saqib Saleem

Actor

Saransh Goila

Chef

Sattvik Mishra

CEO & Co-Founder, ScoopWhoop

Satyanshu Singh

Writer & Filmmaker

Saumin Patel

Illustrator

Saurabh Dwivedi

Journalist

Savita Singh

Cinematographer

Sayani Gupta

Actor

Sejal Kumar

Content Creator

Shabana Azmi

Actor & Activist

Shaheen Bhatt

Author & Mental Health Advocate

Shalmali Kholgade

Musician

Shantanu Shrivastava

Writer

Sharan Sharma

Filmmaker

Sharin Bhatti

Entrepreneur & Content Creator

Shashank Khaitan

Writer & Filmmaker

Shatrujeet Nath

Author

Sheeba Chadha

Actor

Shikha Talsania

Actor

Shlok Sharma

Filmmaker

Shreemi Varma

Writer & Journalist

Shreya Dhanwanthary

Actor & Model

Shreyasi Sharma

Content creator

Shriya Pilgaonkar

Actor

Shruti Madan

Writer

Shweta Tripathi Sharma

Actor

Siddhant Karnick

Actor

Siddharth Anand Kumar

Entrepreneur

Siddharth Mahadevan

Music Composer

Sidharth Jain

Founder & Chief Storyteller at India's First Story Company and India's No.1 Book to Screen Adaptation Company - The Story Ink.

Simar Singh

Spoken Word Poet & Founder of UnErase Poetry

Smita Singh

Writer & Director

Sneha Khanwalkar

Music Director

Sneha Menon Desai

Journalist

Somnath Sen

Director & Writer

Sona Mohapatra

Singer & Music Composer

Sonal Mehrotra Kapoor

Anchor & Editor at NDTV India

Sonali Gupta

Clinical Psychologist

Sonam Nair

Director

Sorabh Pant

Comedian

Spandan Mishra

Screenwriter

Srinivas Mohan

VFX Supervisor

Srishti Behl Arya

Director for International Originals, Netflix India

Stephen Stanford

Product Specialist & Writer-In-Residence at Celtx

Sucharita Tyagi

Film Critic

Sucheta Dalal

Journalist & Author

Suchin Mehrotra

Film Journalist

Sudeep Chatterjee

Cinematographer

Sudhir Mishra

Filmmaker & Screenwriter

Sudhish Kamath

Film Critic

Sudip Sharma

Screenwriter

Suhasini Mani Ratnam

Actor & Director

Sukanya Venkatraghavan

Sukhnidh Kaur

Entrepreneur

Sumeet Vyas

Actor & Writer

Sumit Arora

Screenwriter

Sumit Roy

Sumukhi Suresh

Actor & Comedian

Suresh Eriyat

Filmmaker & Animator

Swara Bhaskar

Actor

Sweta Bothra

Psychologist

Tahira Kashyap Khurrana

Writer & Director

Tanmay Bhat

Comedian & YouTuber

Tanuja Chandra

Director and Writer

Tara Bedi

Community Outreach Manager, Instagram India

Tara Khandelwal

Writer & Editor

Tarsame Mittal

Founder - TM Talent Management

Tarun Tripathi

Creative Strategist

Tashan Mehta

Author

Terrie Samundra

Filmmaker & Screenwriter

Tess Joseph

Filmmaker & Casting Director

Tom Perrotta

Author of Election, Little Children, The Leftovers, and Mrs. Fletcher.

Vaibhav Bundhoo

Music Composer

Vaibhav Munjal

Filmmaker

Vandana Kataria

Production Designer & Director

Varun Duggirala

"Entrepreneur by day. Podcast host by evening & Writer by night. Full time Content Chief @ The Glitch, janitor and dad."

Vasan Bala

Actor & Writer

Vicky Kaushal

Actor

Vikramaditya Motwane

Filmmaker

Vikrant Massey

Actor

Vinay Shukla

Writer & Filmmaker

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