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Vinta Nanda

Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.

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