Gunjan Menon is an Indian wildlife film director, camerawoman, and National Geographic Explorer. Her work predominantly focuses on conservation and human-interest stories and has been broadcast on Animal Planet India, Discovery Channel India, National Geographic, BBC Earth, and Disney+Hotstar. In 2018, she directed, shot and edited The Firefox Guardian, her debut film about the life of the first female forest guardian to work with Red Panda Network in Nepal, which premiered in Bristol, England. The film was noted for highlighting the role of community-driven conservation of red pandas and for having an intersectional and cross-genre approach in natural history storytelling. In 2020, she directed a seven part web-series, Rajasthan Royals, which highlights the lesser-known habitat, species,
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Gunjan Menon is an Indian wildlife film director, camerawoman, and National Geographic Explorer. Her work predominantly focuses on conservation and human-interest stories and has been broadcast on Animal Planet India, Discovery Channel India, National Geographic, BBC Earth, and Disney+Hotstar. In 2018, she directed, shot and edited The Firefox Guardian, her debut film about the life of the first female forest guardian to work with Red Panda Network in Nepal, which premiered in Bristol, England. The film was noted for highlighting the role of community-driven conservation of red pandas and for having an intersectional and cross-genre approach in natural history storytelling. In 2020, she directed a seven part web-series, Rajasthan Royals, which highlights the lesser-known habitat, species, (en) |
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