KP Jayasankar

KP Jayasankar is a retired Professor at the TISS School of Media & Cultural Studies with a Ph.D in Humanities & Social Sciences. Jointly with Anjali Monteiro, he has made over 40 documentaries. He is the recipient of a Heidelberg University scholarship; the Howard Thomas Memorial Commonwealth fellowship, London; the Erasmus Mundus scholarship, Sweden; & the Key Technology Partner scholarship, Sydney. He has been conferred a Special Mention – National Film Award for the best book on cinema, a Prof. Satish Bahadur Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film Education from NID; a Basil Wright Prize; & a jury’s commendation in the Intangible Culture category at the Royal Anthropological Institute Festival, UK.

External links

• Member — Film Critics Circle of India
• KP Jayasankar at IMDb