29th August, 2021
At Club House
The first ever Media Conclave on Clubhouse was hosted by Population First, and its flagship program Laadli. UNFPA and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in India supported the event. The Daily Eye was a partner and it was held on 29th August 2021 from 10 AM to 8 PM.
The theme of the conclave was ‘Women in New Media’ and five sessions of two hours each were held in the three clubrooms, Candid Conversations, #NoRapeIndia and The Daily Eye, with about thirty powerful speakers participating as panellists.
The conclave began with a session on ‘Visual Representation of Women in Films’. Rashmi Lamba, Film Festival Consultant, moderated it. The panelists were Anjum Rajabali, eminent screenwriter, Tara Kaushal, Author ‘Why Men Rape’, Anuja Gulati, Program Management Specialist, UNFPA, Jaydeep Biswas, Chief Policy and Partnerships, UNFPA, Amit Behl, actor and General Secretary of Cine and Television Artists Association, Smriti Nevatia, Curator, Researcher and Writer, and Dr. AL Sharada, Director, Population First.
The second session “Portrayal of sexual violence & abuse: Series & Films” was in collaboration with #NoRapeIndia. The conversation was around ‘Sexual Violence and Abuse in Series and Films’. It had Tathagata Chowdhury, Theatrician, Kanak Gupta, Educator, Ashima Avasthi, Zee Studios Head Original Series and Films, Shreya Narayan, Actor, Model and Prerna Wanvari, Actor/Model as the panellists.
The third session was titled, ‘OTT Platforms: Changing Gender Narratives’. Piyush Jha, Filmmaker, Author and OTT Series Creator moderated the session, and the panellists included Dolly Thakore, Theatre Veteran, Priyanka Sinha, Entertainment Lawyer, Bina Paul, Editor and Documentary Filmmaker and also co-founder of Women in Cinema Collective (WCC), Sriram Haridas, Deputy Representative of UNFPA India, Manisha Korde, eminent Screenwriter and Dr AL Sharada.
The topic for the fourth session was ‘Women With Agency And Choice In Entertainment’ Vinta Nanda, Filmmaker, Writer and Editor of The Daily Eye moderated the session and the participants were Gajra Kottary, Author and Screenwriter, Nilakshi Sengupta, Documentary and Ad Filmmaker, Mona Ambegaonkar, Actor and Theatre Veteran, Manisha Korde, and Dr A.L Sharada.
The topic of the last session ‘To do or not to do: Media Regulation & New Media’. The session was moderated by: Dr AL Sharada, and had Rekha Rao Gulrays, PR Consultant and Co- founder Katha Kathan, Azmeen Kasad, Advocate and Member ASCI, Pradyuman Maheshwari, Senior Journalist and Commentator, Kalpana Yadav, Gender and Human Rights Analyst, UNFPA and Vinta Nanda as panellists.
Link to view session 2: https://bit.ly/33tnw2R