Project Associate, Digital Video Team
Chinmayi has been with the Mahiti Manthana (MM) project of IT for Change (ITfC) since its start in 2005, working mostly with the video component. In the past three years, she has guided and been part of the video team in Mysore that has produced eleven videos meant for the rural sangha women that the project works with.
Chinmayi has completed her Postgraduate Diploma Program in Film and Video Communication Design at the National Institute of Design (NID). She made her diploma film as part of the MM project of ITfC and Mahila Samakhya Karnataka. A documentary about four children – their views on boys and girls, on life and their aspirations and how social conditioning already shapes gender roles at such an early age. As part of her training at NID, she has scripted and directed “ Ek thi Khidki”, a short fiction film about a young woman’s search for her lost childhood window; “Living to tell a tale” , a documentary film about a puppeteer and the tales his puppets have to tell; and two public service advertisements that seek to promote cycling.
Chinmayi graduated (Bachelor of arts) in Journalism, English and Economics from the University of Mysore and then pursued Masters in English literature at the University of Mysore for a year.
Her special interests are Social communication, Gender and Participatory media. Chinmayi is also interested in dance and bird watching.
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