Biography

Subhashish Panigrahi is a documentary filmmaker, researcher and long-time open culture advocate. Apart from leading strategy, programs and communities for international civil society organizations such as Wikimedia, Mozilla and Internet Society, he has produced and directed several documentaries with a primary focus on indigenous and endangered languages over a decade. In 2019 he was awarded the Yoti Digital Identity Fellowship for researching the impact of the Indian biometric ID on marginalized communities. His year-long research resulted in the 2021 documentary "MarginalizedAadhaar" highlighting how access to information in India's Adivasi (indigenous) groups lead to the exclusion of basic public services.