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= ARCHANA KAPOOR = Archana Kapoor is a Filmmaker, Author and Founder/Director-Seeking Modern Applications For Real Transformation a not for profit; Radio Mewat a Community Radio Station and Founder of The Radio Festival

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INDIAN

About
Archana Kapoor is a Delhi based film maker and social activist. She is the founder/Director of– Seeking Modern Applications for Real Transformation an NGO that uses modern and traditional media to provide information and voice to marginalised communities. Her effort is to provide an environment for acquiring knowledge and developing abilities to organize and influence the direction of social change.

To give further access to information on important issues to rural communities, founded Radio Mewat, a community radio station, in the backwards district of Mewat in 2010. The radio station is managed by members of the community and has given them a platform that has become their identity. Radio Mewat has won two national awards- under the 'Sustainability Model' category in 2011 and "Most Creative and Innovative Programme" in 2013. The Radio was awarded the SKOCH Order of Merit in June 2014 for Financial Inclusion in Mewat and is in the Limca book of Records for the Radio run Consumer Helpline. It has been awarded several recognitions for its achievements and its stories of change have been widely covered by national and international press.

Archana has been a leader of the community radio movement in India- working with the government and other community radio stations to provide a larger space for the medium that reaches over 500 million people. She has been invited to speak at the 62nd Commission on Status of Women in United Nations. She is a TEDx Speaker and was invited to Washington DC for her talk.

Archana has also worked with women in conflict zones of both North and Northeast India and documented the stories of those who have suffered from natural and manmade calamities, particularly the tribal and minority communities. Through her programme "Mothers on Air” she has encouraged women to share their stories with the rest of the world and emphasised on their role in peace building through dialogue.

She founded The Radio Festival, the only festival in India that brings together public, private, community and podcasters together.

She has authored a toolkit to demystify UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for Community Radios: Communicating SDGS- A toolkit for Community Radio. Archana has also made over 200 documentaries and serials and authored a book.

As a filmmaker, under her banner, Archana Kapoor Productions, she has made more than 300 short and long documentaries, corporate films, Docu-dramas, serials and chat shows. She has worked for the government and the private sector. Her films have been telecast on national and private channels, been screened for niche audiences and at Summits and Conferences attended by Heads of States.

She has been featured in national and international media, has received the prestigious Devi award instituted by the Sunday Standard and has been featured in the 3rd edition of Vodafone coffee table' Women of Substance' and the 2nd Edition of the Indian National Bar Association’s Book- The Phenomenal SHE. She has been featured by DD News in their popular show 'Tejaswini' which features women of substance and in a number of Radio Shows.

You Tube Links for Films by Archana Kapoor Productions
1.  A bridge over time: A film on the Mekong Ganga cooperation- Part 1

2. A Bridge over Time  a film on the Mekong Ganga Cooperation- Part 2

3. History Deconstructed: A film on India's Look East Policy

4. This is Asia's Time : A film on the economic cooperation between India and the ASEAN

5 This is Asia's time (For the Delhi Dialogue)

6. India and ASEAN- A Thriving Partnership for the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia

7.Enriching the Rainbow : A film on 150 years of India in South Africa

8. Palimpsest: India in Europe