Kalpana Nair heads Programming at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. She has been working with MAMI (Mumbai Academy of Moving Image) since 2015. She also writes about film and popular culture in publications like The Times of India, Firstpost, Film Companion and National Geographic. An MBA by education, she segued to festival programming and film journalism after an early stint in advertising. She was selected as one of Screen International's Future Leaders in 2019.