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Nisha Pahuja is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Toronto. Her latest film, TO KILL A TIGER, had its world premiere at TIFF where it won the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film. Since then, it’s won 19 awards including Best Documentary Feature, Palm Springs International Film Festival and three Canadian Screen awards. The film grew out of a long career of addressing various human rights issues, notably violence against women in India. In 2015, she won the Amnesty International media award for Canadian journalism after making a short film about the Delhi bus gang rape for Global News. Pahuja’s other past credits include the multi-award-winning THE WORLD BEFORE HER (2012 Best Documentary Feature, Jury Award Winner, Tribeca Film Festival; Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs; TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten; Best Documentary nominee, Canadian Screen Awards, the series Diamond Road (2008 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Series) and BOLLYWOOD BOUND (2002 Gemini Award nominee).

Stacy Sullivan is the Communications Director at Human Rights Watch. From 2007-2010, she served as U.S. Media Director for Human Rights Watch, focusing on U.S. counter-terrorism policies and was an official observer for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. In between stints at Human Rights Watch, she was the Deputy Director of Editorial and Strategic Communications at the American Civil Liberties where she oversaw communications on immigrants’ rights, reproductive rights, voting rights, privacy, free speech, technology, national security, women’s rights, and racial justice. Prior to Human Rights Watch, she worked as a journalist covering the war in Bosnia for Newsweek, and has written long-form magazine stories for the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The New Republic, Elle and numerous other publications. She is the author of “Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America,” a book about the war in Kosovo told through a Kosovar émigré who resettled in New York. She has a BA in political science and German literature from UC Santa Barbara, and an MA in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

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