Mustering Movements
MovieMaker | Summer 2009
There's a new trend afoot in nonfiction moviemaking. read more
Food Fellow Does Brooklyn Proud
Edible Brooklyn | July 2009
Shalini Kantayya has always been hard to peg, from her upbringing split between suburban Connecticut and southern India... read more
A Filmmaker's Journey Inside the Water Crisis
India Abroad | May 2009
Shalini Kantayya gives a first-person account of the making of... A Drop of Life, drawing attention to the importance of water conservation... read more
Filmmaker, Eco-Activist Shalini Kantayya Addresses World Water Crisis at Earth Day Celebration
The Wesleyan Connection | April 13, 2009
Through film, eco-activist and reality television star Shalini Kantayya will speak about the global water crisis during Wesleyan's Earth Day... read more
70 New Reasons to Live Green
Glamour | April 2009
They're standing right here... read more
Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya heats things up with her latest film RED
Jamati Online | September 8, 2008
Interview by Laura Adibe
Jamati: Thank you, Shalini, for granting Jamati this interview. Can you let the readers know a little bit about yourself? read more
Filmmaker competes for $100,000 grand prize
ABC Action News.com | August 26, 2008
NEW YORK, NY -- A short filmmaking contest aimed at discovering new talent now has its 15th finalist. read more
Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya competes in Doorpost Film Contest
NewsTrack India | August 20, 2008
NI Wire
Shalini Kantayya was selected as one of the Top 15 finalists from Round One of The Doorpost Film Project... read more
Gbenga Akinnagbe stars in RED
Jamati Online | August 19, 2008
By Laura Adibe
Talented filmmaker Shalini Kantayya packs an important message into her short film RED... read more
Brooklyn Filmmaker Captures 'Hope' in 15 Minutes or Less On Path to Hollywood
Brooklyn Daily Eagle | July 22, 2008
By Sam Howe & Friends
FLATBUSH-BASED FILMMAKER Shalini Kantayya was recently selected as one of 15 finalists in a competition to discover "inspiring and influential" filmmakers... read more
Cause Celebre
The Indian Express | July 13, 2008
By Suanshu Khurana
When Steven Spielberg threw open the hunt for a filmmaker through the Fox reality show On The Lot last year, Shalini Kantayya was in. As film junkies across the world watched, Kantayya survived week after snarky week... read more
Film Contest to Explore Hope
Evidence of Humanity | June 20, 2008
Shalini Kantayya has been selected as one of the top 15 highest-scoring finalists from round one of The Doorpost Film Project... read more
New Indian on the Hollywood Block
Mail Today | April 5, 2008
By Sharin Bhatti
"HI. It's fabulous to hear an Indian voice the first thing in the morning," Brooklyn-based Shalini Kantayya chirps at the other end of the line when we contact her from Mumbai... read more
Water Wars
Pasadena Weekly | March 20, 2008
By Jana J. Monji
If you are a green-conscious filmmaker but don't have the big bucks of Leonardo DiCaprio or the political clout of Al Gore to get your project green-lighted, why not enter the Intelligent Use of Water short film competition? read more
The Woman with a Movie Camera
World Pulse Magazine | January, 2008
By Alissa Bohling
World Pulse: As a grassroots artist-activist, how do you ensure that your message retains its integrity as your work enters mainstream media? read more
Laughing
Out Loud
EGO Magazine | August 17, 2007
Outrageously hilarious international sensation Vidur Kapur, will be performing live at Gotham Comedy Club. 208 W. 23rd Street bet. 7th and 8th Ave, NYC 212.367.9000 $15 + 2 Drink Min... read more
Shalini
in Spielberg's race
Rediff News | June 6, 2007
She describes herself as 'a techhead, a tree-hugger and a humanist,' but right now it's her work behind the lens that's getting Shalini Kantayya noticed. The 30-year-old freelance director from... read more
Film
or Die!
EGO Magazine | August 30, 2006
By Azra Dawood
You need not read any further if you are already familiar with this multi-hyphenated term: ‘multi-racial multi-cultural eco-supershero action figures’. If you haven’t heard of it before, it’s probably because you are... read more
10
Questions: Shalini Kantayya
Outlook India | July 17, 2007
By Raghu Karnad
Shalini Kantayya is a filmmaker. She was picked by Steven Spielberg to be a contestant on the reality show On The Lot. How much a part of your identity as a filmmaker is being an activist? My love for filmmaking is.... read more
Using
Film To Change The World
Have Fun, Do Good | October 12, 2007
By Britt Bravo
Sixty years ago, very few people would have seen the connection between peace and hydrology, but today that connection is clear to the foresighted. If we do not deal with the water problems on a global scale, I... read more
To
Hell and Back
The Statesman | September 09, 2006
By Mathures Paul
For a filmmaker life is filled with trials and tribulations. Shalini Kantayya uses film/video as a tool to educate, inspire, and empower audiences. She recieved a Fullbright Fellowship to make a documentary film... read more
Director's
Uncut
The Hartford Courant | June 05, 2007
By Roger Catlin
Connecticut native Shalini Kantayya is among the 15 film makers remaining in the network reality competition "On The Lot" which seeks new directors. Kantayya, 30, a 1994 graduate of South Windsor high has... read more
Riding
on a New Wave
Hindustan Times | October 30, 2006
By Sushmita Bose
She says she is into ayurvedic nutrition, shaken it, cocontu cutney, saving planet earth, and that she eats, drinks, and sleeps movies. William D. Fullbright scholar, Shalini Kantayya probably also loves... read more
Shooting
for a cause
The Hindu | Feburary 01, 2003
By Preethi Chandrasekar
A media workshop for activists is bound to be an animated one! And so was the one got up for a bunch of human rights activists from People Watch an NGO, who learnt how to be the best shoot, edit and document... read more
Alot
at Stake
India New England | July 01, 2007
By Meera Rajopalan
When Connecticut native Shalini Kantayya first told her friend and business consultant Michelle Yozzo Drake that she was participating in a reality show for a film director, Drake says she remembers telling her "Of... read more
A
Drop of Life
The Bleeping Herald | November 01, 2007
By Cate Montana
When award winning filmmaker Shalini Kantayya wrote A Drop of Life, she didn’t realize the terrifying, futuristic corporate-owned water supply system she had imagined was already a reality in several countries... read more
Nirali Magazine | May 29, 2007
By Priya Patel
You need not read any further if you are already familiar with this multi-hyphenated term: ‘multi-racial multi-cultural eco-supershero action figures’. If you haven’t heard of it before, it’s probably because you are... read more
Into
the Next Stage
Manna Newsletter | November 2007
By Guy Aoki
"On the Lot" Fox's reality show about 50 directors (choosen from 12,000 submissions) aired its finale this past Tuesday with Will Bigham named the winner of $million development deal with Dreamworks Pictures... read more
A
Drop of Life - Film
Evidence of Humanity | November 24, 2007
Reprinted with permission
Filmmaker, director, and activist Shalini Kantayya directed the film A Drop of Life. Shalini believes in making films that spark positive social change. The mission of her production company, 7th Empire Media, is to... read more
Changing
The Story
Bioneers Yearbook | 2005
By Bioneers Staff
Filmmaker, educator, and activist Shalini Kantayya uses film and video to educate, inspire, and empower audiences. A first generation Indian American, she has been making films for almost a decade... read more
Featured
Artists: Shalini Kantayya
Discover India | November 18, 2007
By Discover India Staff Writers
Filmmaker, educator, and activist Shalini Kantayya uses film and video to educate, inspire, and empower audiences. Shalini believes in making films to spark social change. The mission of her production company... read more
MFA
Students Represent City College at CUNYarts
MFA Chronicle | Spring 2003
By MFA Chronicle Staff Writer
The film work of Shalini Kantayya and Gisela Sanders will be shown at CUNYarts, a gala evening of film, ficiton, poetry, and video created by several CUNY campuses.Shalini's short film One Stuggle, is a ... read more
On
the Lot Episode 5 Recap
DingoRue | June 06, 2007
By Soultrance
Welcome to the On The Lot Episode 5 recap. Tonight’s episode is the first in the series since Fox television trimmed the shows schedule down to a single 1-hour episode every Tuesday night. So, with that... read more