Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Faculty Member, Centre for Media and Cultural Studies

Professor and Chair

About

Dr. Anjali Monteiro is Professor and Chair, Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has a Masters degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in Sociology. She is involved in documentary production, media teaching and research. Jointly with K.P. Jayasankar, she has made over 35 documentary films. Their work has been screened extensively at film festivals all over the world and they have won twenty-two national and international awards.

Awards:
From the Diary of a Genetic Counsellor, Best Programme Award, Open/General category, Fifth UGC Country-wide Classroom Video Festival, 1992, Hyderabad

The Plot Thickens…, First Prize and the award for Individual Technical Excellence in Editing, Sixth UGC Country-wide Classroom Video Festival, 1993, Calcutta

Identity- The Construction of Selfhood, Prix Futura Berlin 1995, Asia Prize Prix Futura Berlin 1995- International Radio and Television Festival; Second Prize, Education and Literacy category, International Video Festival on Science, Society and Development , September, 1995, Thiruvanathapuram

Odhni- A Collective Exploration of Our Selves, Our Bodies, Second Prize, Health and Population category, International Video Festival on Science, Society and Development, September, 1995, Thiruvanathapuram.;

Kahankar: Ahankar, Jury's Special Mention at the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), 1996

YCP 1997, Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) 1998 and the Jury’s Award for Best Innovation, Astra Festival of Anthropological Documentary Film, Sibiu, Romania, 1998

Saacha, Second Prize, New Delhi Video Forum, 2001

SheWrite, Best documentary Prize, IV Three Continents International Documentary Festival, Venezuela 2005 and Indian Documentary Producers Association Awards 2005: The First Technical Award for Sound Design

Our Family, Special Jury Award, Signs Film Festival, Thiruvananthapuram, 2007, Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International
Film Festival 2008, Indian Documentary Producers Association (IDPA) Gold for Best Sound Design, Gold for Best Script, Silver for Editing and Certificate of Merit for the best documentary.

Do Din Ka Mela, Indian Documentary Producers Association (IDPA) Gold for Best Script, Silver for Editing and Certificate of Merit for the best documentary.

Fellowships:
Dr. Monteiro was a Howard Thomas Memorial Fellow in Media Studies, attached to University of Western Sydney in 2000 and a Fulbright International Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, 2007.

Teaching:
She teaches in the MA (Media and Cultural Studies Programme at TISS. She is visiting faculty at several media and design institutions in India.


Publications
Areas of research interest include  Television: Texts and Audience Reception, Media Education, Critical Perspectives on Development Communication, Documentary Film, Censorship, Media and Cultural Studies

Her publications include:

Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, The Spectator-Indian - An Exploratory Study of the Reception of News, Cultural Studies 10(1), January 1993.

Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, India: The News of the State and the State of the News in Jensen, K.B. (ed.) The News of the World, Routledge, 1998.

Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A. Between the Normal and the Imaginary - The Spectator-self, the Other and Satellite Television in India, in Hagen, I and Wasko, (ed.,) Consuming Audiences: Production and Reception in Media Research, Hampton Press, 2000.

Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., Documentary and Ethnographic Film, Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier. 2001.

Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., The Plot Thickens – A Cultural Studies Approach to Media Education in India, in Tony Lavender, Birgitte Tufte and Dafna Lemish (eds.) Global Trends in Media Education, Hampton Press, 2003.

Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., Censorship ke Peeche Kya Hai, in Nalini Rajan (ed) Practising Journalism, Sage, 2005.

Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., Jai Ho Shanghai- The Invisible Poor in Slumdog Millionnaire in Kumar Ashwani et al eds Global Civil Society Yearbook, LSE and Sage, 2009.

Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, A New Pair of Scissors- the Draft Cinematograph Bill 2010, Economic and Political Weekly
Volume 45, Number 29, July 17-23, 2010.

Filmography
Jointly with Prof. K.P. Jayasankar, has produced, scripted, edited and directed over 35 documentary films that have won 22 awards and have been screened widely at national and international film festivals on national and international television and in a variety of other contexts. Vibgyor Film Festival, Kerala and Bangalore Film Society organised retrospectives of their body of work in 2006 and 2010 respectively.

Their films include:
 
Pani Panchayat
1986, U-matic (PAL), 50 mins.

New Directions in Medical Social Work: Community Health
1987, U-matic (PAL), 60 mins.

The Young Workers
1987, U-matic (PAL), 1 hrs. 40 mins.

Tanda
A Document on the Denotified Tribes in Maharashtra
1988, U-matic (PAL), Part I and II, 60 mins

The Fifth Schedule
1988, U-matic (PAL), Part I & II, 44 mins

Lage Jiva Ghar Ghar A Document on Women and Shelter
1990, U-matic (PAL), 44 mins.

From the Diary of a Genetic Counsellor
1991, U-matic (PAL), 30 mins.

Magra Mewar Vikas Sanstha
1991, U-matic/(PAL), 68 mins.

One Hundred Years Of Drought
1993, U-matic (PAL), 21 mins.

Sudha Police Station Gayi Thi:
On the Demystification of Police Procedures for Women
1992, U-matic (PAL), 16 mins.

Odhni: A Collective Exploration Of Ourselves, Our Bodies
1993, U-matic(PAL), Col., 23 mins.

The Plot Thickens…
1993, U-matic (PAL), 14 min.

Identity
The Construction of Selfhood
1994, U-matic(PAL), 20 mins.

Punarvasan
A Document on Reconstruction in Post-earthquake Marathwada
1995, U-matic(PAL), 58 mins.

Kahankar : Ahankar (Story Maker : Story Taker)
1995, U-matic (PAL), 38 mins.

YCP 1997
1997, U-matic (PAL), 43 mins

The Striders
U-matic (PAL), Col., 7 mins, 1997

Water to the People
Towards Community Participation in Rural Drinking Water Schemes
U-matic (PAL), Col., 34mins., English, Marathi, 1998

Jungle Tales
Surviving Development in Uttara Kannada
Beta, 52 mins., English,1999

Self Representation
DV, 5 mins, English, 2000

Saacha (The Loom)
DV, 49 mins., English, 2001

Reconstructing Communities
DV, 52 mins, Part I &II, English, 2002

Naata (The Bond)
DV, 45 mins., English, 2003

Mumbai
DVCam, 10 Mins, English, 2004

SheWrite
DVCam, 55 mins, Tamil and English, 2005

Breasts
DVCam, 10 mins, Tamil and English, 2005

Trees
DVCam, 10 mins, Tamil and English, 2005

Agreement
DVCam, 10 mins, Tamil and English, 2005

Elephant Story
DVCam, 10 mins, Tamil and English, 2005

Unheard Voices
DVCam, 27 mins, English, 2006

With the People
DVCam, 5 mins, English, 2006

Becoming Salma
DVCam, 21 mins, Tamil and English, 2006

Gender Unpack
DVCam, 28 mins, English, PSBT, 2006
(Concept and Executive Editor for this series of 4 short films)

Our Family
DVCam, 56 mins, English, 2007

Memory.Space
DV, 90 secs, 2009

Irani Restaurant Instructions
DV, 3 mins, English, 2008

Do Din ka Mela
HD, 60 mins, English, 2009

Climate Justice for All
DV, 16 mins, English, 2009

A Short Film on Rain
DV, 2 mins, 2009

So He So Hu (forthcoming)
This, That
HD, 52 mins, English, 2011

Additional Information

Dr. Monteiro is actively involved in ‘Vikalp' and 'Films for Freedom', which are collectives of documentary filmmakers campaigning for freedom of expression.
She has been a consultant to UNDP.

Association with Professional and Voluntary Organizations

Trustee and President, Managing Committee, AVEHI, Audio-Visual Resource Centre, Bombay

Member, Academic Council, Tripura University

Chairperson, Board of Studies for AV Communication, Calicut University

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Creative Communication, Sage

Member, Editorial Board, Member, Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series, Routledge

Member, Search Committee for Director of Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad

Member, National Screening Committee for 2010-2011 Fulbright–Nehru Visiting Lecturer Fellowships

Member, National Selection Committee for 2011-2012 Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowships for Leadership Development

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, USA

Member, PUKAR Institutional Ethics Committee

Former President’s Nominee, Selection Committee, AJK – MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Former Member, Programme Advisory Committee, NCERT, New Delhi

Former Member, Society of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla