The Volunteer Archivists: Dossier/Press Kit
About this ebook
This publication is a supplement to "The Volunteer Archivists", a 2022 documentary film written, edited, directed, and produced by Subhashish Panigrahi, and available online at https:// archive.org/details/ with Open Access, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License. Information shared by interviewees reflects their personal viewpoints only. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.
About the author
Subhashish Panigrahi is an Open Culture advocate, documentary filmmaker, researcher, and civil society leader from India.
He has directed nine nonfiction films and was awarded the 2019 Digital Identity Fellowship by Yoti, the 2017 National Geographic Explorer award, the 2017 MJ Bear Fellowship by Online News Association, the 2021 Grant for the Web by Interledger Foundation, Opensource.com People’s Choice Award in 2015 and Wikimedia Advocate and Expert in 2016.
Subhashish is known for directing and producing “MarginalizedAadhaar” (premiered at re:publica 2021 Berlin and discussed Response-ability Tech 2021 UK, ICLDC Hawai‘i and Sciences Po Paris), “Nani Ma” (first documentary in Baleswari dialect of Odia language), “Gyani Maiya” (awarded 2022 International Film & Entertainment Festival Australia—IFEFA; Official Selections: 8th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation at University of Hawaiʻi, 6th International Folklore Film Festival 2023, Balkan Can Kino Athens 2022; Bozok Film Festivali 2022 and Festival RNAB 2021 Sao Paulo), “Remosam” and “Mage Porob”, the last three made through a National Geographic grant. His work emphasises the conservation of endangered languages, focusing on South Asia, digital rights, and the Open Internet movement.
He is the founder of OpenSpeaks, co-founder of the nonprofit O Foundation. He has previously led strategy and community engagement at Wikimedia, Internet Society and Mozilla.
