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Shweta Kishore is a scholar and filmmaker who researches contemporary documentary film culture, artist cinema, women’s filmmaking and diaspora film practices. Her research is centred around independent film cultures aimed at achieving political and artistic objectives within social and community contexts. Shewta prioritises cross-linkages between the education, arts and culture sectors to create dialogue and social action utilising the collective impulse and impact of cinema. She has curated moving image programmes for the Melbourne International Film festival, Factory Contemporary Arts Centre and the Kochi Muziris Art Biennale, and is the author of the book Resistance in Indian Documentary: Aesthetics, Culture, Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Contact Shweta here.

Polly Stanton is an artist and filmmaker. Her work primarily investigates the relations between environment, human actions and land use. Her films and installations focus on contested sites, presenting landscape as a politically charged field of negotiation, entangled with history, technology and capital. Polly's mode of working is expansive and site based, with her practice intersecting across a number of disciplines from film production, sound design, field research, performance, writing and publication. She has been the recipient of numerous commissions, grants and artist-in-residence programs in both Australia and overseas and is the co-editor of the book Fieldwork for Future Ecologies: Radical Practice for Art and Art-based Research (Onomatopee Projects, 2022). Contact Polly here.