Institute of Performing Arts, seminars and panel discussions by well-known writers and scholars, and a public talk by the Dalai Lama. Ritu participated in the KHOJ Marathon with Hans Ulrich Obrist in New Delhi on 22 January 2011. She was also a part of the Engadin Art Talks in Zuoz, Switzerland, in August 2012, a symposium on art and architecture directed by Beatrix Ruf, director and curator of the Kunsthalle Zurich, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programme at the Serpentine Gallery in London. In 2012, Ritu and Tenzing founded the non-profit organisation, White Crane Arts & Media, to fulfil their long-held desire to promote contemporary art, cinema and independent media practices in the Himalayan regions. Its first project, in collaboration with Khoj International Artists’ Association, was an artists’ residency which was held in Dharamshala in October 2012. Its main project – the Dharamshala International Film Festival – had its first edition in November 2012 and is now considered to be one of India's top independent film festivals. Ritu was awarded a residency at the Rockefeller Institute Bellagio Center in 2017. She served on the jury for the International Competition section of the 2019 Sydney Film Festival. See also Dreaming Lhasa White Crane Films References External links Living people Indian documentary filmmakers People from Dharamshala People from New Delhi Film producers from Delhi Film directors from Delhi 20th-century Indian film directors 21st-century Indian film directors Indian women documentary filmmakers Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Indian women