Virtual Q and A with Coded Bias Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya

Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya's Coded Bias premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. She directed for the National Geographic television series Breakthrough, Executive Produced by Ron Howard, broadcast globally in June 2017. Her debut, Catching the Sun, premiered at the LA Film Festival and was named a NY Times Critic's Pick. Catching the Sun released globally on Netflix on Earth Day 2016 with Executive Producer Leonardo Di Caprio, and was nominated for the Environmental Media Association Award of the Best Documentary. Kantayya is a TED Fellow, a William J. Fulbright Scholar, and an Associate of the UC Berkley Graduate School of Journalism.

This virtual Q&A session is free to the public. While you will be able to submit questions for the filmmaker at the time of registration, you will also be able to submit via an emailed reminder or during the live session. Questions will require moderator approval.

This event is sponsored by the OSU Libraries, the Center for Africana Studies, Division of Institutional Diversity, Digital Humanities Initiative, and the Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies program.

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