Anjali Monteiro & K.P. Jayasankar (b.1955, Pune, India and b.1952 Kochi, India) both live and work in Mumbai. As filmmakers and academics a presiding thematic of much of their documentary and research work has been a problematising of notions of self and the Other, of normality and deviance, of the local and the global. These range from the stories and paintings of indigenous peoples to the poetry of prison inmates. Jointly they have won thirty national and international awards for their films. Vibgyor Film Festival, Kerala, Bangalore Film Society and Madurai International Film Festival have organized retrospectives of their work in 2006, 2010 and 2012 respectively. Dr. Anjali Monteiro and Dr. K.p. Jayasankar are Professors at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. Monteiro is Dean of the School and Jayasankar is Chaor, Centre for Critical Media Praxis. Monteiro and Jayasankar have been awarded the Howard Thomas Memorial Fellowship in Media Studies and the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, and have been attached to Goldsmith’s College, London; University of Western Sydney and Lund University