Haya Fatima Iqbal
(Film Expert – Pakistan)
Haya Fatima Iqbal is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Pakistan. She directs, produces, and shoots films all across Pakistan. She is interested in covering ethnic subcultures across the globe, as well as showcasing human rights issues that affect people across the globe. Haya has worked with CNN, BBC, Channel 4 UK, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Deutsche Welle (DW), Huffington Post, Dawn, and Geo News among other media organizations. Haya also teaches communication, media, and journalism to undergraduate students at Habib University, Karachi. She is a Fulbright alumna who completed her Masters in documentary filmmaking from New York University.
Sankalp Meshram
(Film Expert – India)
Sankalp has been practicing as a Writer, Producer, Director and Editor of films in Mumbai for the last 24 years, completing more than 150 film projects. He has received Five National Awards. Apart from his distinguished professional career, he has been an avid film educator since 2006. He has designed the syllabi and taught at each and every prestigious film school in India.
Laced with wit and humor, his classroom sessions are high voltage, high energy performances brimming with insight and knowledge. He continues to teach film making at all the illustrious film schools of India like FTII (Pune), SRFTII (Kolkata), Whistling Woods International (Mumbai), IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, LBSNAA (Mussoorie) and IIM Ahmedabad. Sankalp has been a member of the academic council of FTII (Pune) & SRFTII (Kolkata). He was also the Dean and Academic Director of the digital academy – The film school (Mumbai) from 2006 to 2017.
Marcus Goldbas
(Film Expert – U.S.)
Seeds of Peace served as a launching pad for Marcus’ career as a filmmaker, cinematographer, photographer, and producer. He has directed documentaries in Morocco, Uganda, Iceland, and on several cross-country tours in the United States. He has worked on projects with major networks and studios in New York City as well as his own produced and financed projects.
In addition to being a member of the Seeds of Peace Global Leadership Council, Marcus was a Seeds of Peace camper in 2007 in an Indo-Pak dialogue group. He also served as a counselor at the Seeds of Peace Camp in 2011 and 2012. He currently works at the University of Virginia as a multimedia producer and teaches a course in marketing and negotiation. He is also the co-founder and technical director of his own production company, Nite4Nite Productions.
