This series includes conversations with a range of industry professionals and practitioners, with a particular emphasis on the gendered politics of women’s filmmaking, global authorship, and Bollywood cinema in both regional and international contexts. In episodes concerned with the ideology of auteurism, gendered politics, and filmmakers from the Global South, we explore how globally-oriented filmmakers and media makers encourage us to re-think notions of authorship in the digital age. We invite various speakers to discuss how narrative and aesthetic strategies are informed by larger historical and industrial contexts, as well how non-western and diasporic approaches to media production affect local and global audiences. Collectively, we think critically about the politics of admission and exclusion, and how and why some media works are canonized as revered artforms, while others remain marginalized.
