Shohini Ghosh is the Sajjad Zaheer Professor of media at the AJK Mass
Communication Research Center, Jamia Millia Islamia. She is an
essayist on popular culture and a documentary filmmaker. In a 2007
interview at the University of Minnesota, she provided reflections on
her life and work.Ghosh received master's degrees from the MCRC and
from Cornell University, and was a visiting professor at Cornell from
1990 to 1996. She spent time as a fellow at the University of Chicago,
and taught as part of a variety of programs on sexuality, culture and
society during the 1990s.Ghosh began her documentary film work around
that time, co-founding the Mediastorm Collective, an all-women
documentary collective which in 1992 received the Chameli Devi Jain
Award for Outstanding Work among Women Media Professionals. In 1998
she worked with Sabeena Gadihoke on Three Women and a Camera.In 2002,
Ghosh produced her first independent documentary, Tales of the Night
Fairies, which won a Best Film award at Jeevika 2003 and was shown in
13 countries.
Communication Research Center, Jamia Millia Islamia. She is an
essayist on popular culture and a documentary filmmaker. In a 2007
interview at the University of Minnesota, she provided reflections on
her life and work.Ghosh received master's degrees from the MCRC and
from Cornell University, and was a visiting professor at Cornell from
1990 to 1996. She spent time as a fellow at the University of Chicago,
and taught as part of a variety of programs on sexuality, culture and
society during the 1990s.Ghosh began her documentary film work around
that time, co-founding the Mediastorm Collective, an all-women
documentary collective which in 1992 received the Chameli Devi Jain
Award for Outstanding Work among Women Media Professionals. In 1998
she worked with Sabeena Gadihoke on Three Women and a Camera.In 2002,
Ghosh produced her first independent documentary, Tales of the Night
Fairies, which won a Best Film award at Jeevika 2003 and was shown in
13 countries.
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