THE FACULTY

Our highly skilled faculty offer our trainees essential cinematography skills, both theoretical and practical. Engaged in the current film industry and having worked in groundbreaking cinema, our mentors are up to date with modern filming equipment, current industry trends and practices, work culture and team dynamics.

  • Kiran Deohans

    A celebrated cinematographer, Kiran Deohans is an FTII graduate, and has worked on several feature films including renowned ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’ and ‘Agneepath’’. He has received a filmfare award for his first feature ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’ and has also been nominated for an APSA award for Jodhaa Akbar.

  • Neha Parti Matiyani

    An FTII graduate, Neha Parthi Matiyani has worked on many feature films and web series throughout her growing career since the last 14 years. Her work as a DOP includes feature films ‘Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge’, ‘Waiting’, ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’, and ‘4 More Shots Please’ (Amazon – 2019)

  • Nusrat Jafri

    Working in the independent Indian cinema, Nusrat Jafri hails from the city of Nawabs, Lucknow. With her MA in mass communication from JMIU, Delhi, she has worked on many feature films including ‘Kuchh Bheege Alfaaz’, ‘Chacha Vidhayak Hain Hamare’ & Hansal Mehta’s multi award winning feature ‘Shahid’. She has also worked on Shlok Sharma’s critically acclaimed short film ‘Sujata’.

  • Avani Rai

    A photographer based out of Mumbai, India. Avani Rai has worked as a cameraperson on a number of short films. Uski Baarish premiered at Clermond Ferrand, Tiff etc. She has worked in fiction and documentary. As a photographer she has contributed to the Sunday Guardian, Scroll, The Wire.

  • Jih-E Peng

    With an MFA in cinematography from American Film Institute, Jih-E is a Taiwanese cinematographer and photographer based in the USA. She has worked on many non-fiction, commercial and music film projects, including Going Places (pilot selected for Sundance New Voices Lab, 2017), A Period Piece (SXSW), and a New York Times documentary “I Just Did What He Wanted” (2019 Emmy nominee).