Miracle in Antarctica

Santosh Saligram is a filmmaker, writer, photographer, editor and creative from Bengaluru. Passionate about storytelling in every form, he revels in revealing worlds through both visuals and words. A diversely skilled raconteur, he loves to take on challenging subjects high in impact on social consciousness, greatly concerned with story structure, meaning and messaging without falling into sensationalism, oversimplification or homiletics. He considered film as a tongue on which voices other than his own may speak louder than himself.

Sourabha Rao is a bilingual writer, filmmaker, poet, translator and former freelance journalist, with literary proficiency in English and Kannada. She deeply cares about crafting stories primarily on nature and wildlife, human-wildlife interactions, climate change mitigation, social issues, heritage and art. She has written op-eds and photostories for leading Kannada and English newspapers, and has collaborated with filmmakers in wildlife and water conservation. Rao is now exploring stories at the intersection of humans and wildlife in the hinterlands of India.

Dr. Harsh Kumar Gupta is an earth scientist and seismologist, known for his pioneering work on the estimation of reservoir-induced earthquakes. He is a former Vice Chancellor of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) and a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad. A recipient of the 1983 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology and the 2008 Waldo E. Smith Award, Gupta was also awarded the Padma Shri in 2006.

Suraj Sumanth is a filmmaker, post-production lead and creative operations strategist with over thirteen years of experience across film, brand and digital production. Trained in Film Production at Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montréal, he combines a deep technical background in cinematography, editing and workflow architecture with systems-driven leadership. Currently serving as Lead of Post Production and Associate Producer at LastBench Studio in Bengaluru, he specialises in building scalable digital infrastructure, optimising post-production pipelines, and overseeing craft-forward storytelling for major brands and social impact organisations.

Preeti is an Assistant Editor with The Hindu‘s Metro Plus team, writing across topics including sustainability, culture, art, society, books, science, startups and health, among other things. She holds a degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York, with a focus on art and culture reporting.