Shrenik Rao is an Indian film-maker, academic, and broadcaster. He is the founder and chief executive of Dolsun Media (2005) and 7MB – 7 Media Broadcasting Pvt Ltd (2010). He was a Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016) & an alumus of the London School of Economics. He wrote, directed, and produced the documentary films Denied – This Bit of Truth, Mugabe's Zimbabwe, 7 Notes to Infinity, and The Monsoon Oracle, which have been distributed to 52 countries around the world. Films The global premier of his first factual film titled Denied – This Bit of Truth took place at The London School of Economics in October 2007 and was quickly followed by a premier at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in November 2007. The factual film has also been featured on BBC World Service's Outlook. He created an environmental initiative in association with United Nations Environment Programme for which he cycled for 4800 kilometres from Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of India to Kashmir – India's northernmost state. Along his journey, he gathered pledges for planting trees to spread environmental awareness about offsetting the effects of global warming. This epic journey was made into a six-part Television series titled TreeCycle with Shrenik Rao which has been licensed to Gaiam TV in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Snippets of his journey were broadcast on NDTV. The series also features celebrated authors, environmentalists and other prominent personalities such as Maneka Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, Gurcharan Das, Daggubati Purandeswari and Sunita Narain. His factual film titled Mugabe's Zimbabwe, charts three decades of Robert Mugabe's rule as the President of Zimbabwe. The film examines Mugabe's transition from liberator to dictator, and of Zimbabwe from a state of hope to one of desolation. The film was taken up for worldwide distribution by TVF International and was featured as one of the 'Hot Picks of 2011' by Real Screen at Cannes. The film was critically acclaimed by media across the world and translated to multiple languages. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Bearak of the New York Times wrote, 'The film seems a primer to the situation, something of value especially to those not yet familiar with Zimbabwe and its recent history'. In 2012, Rao produced and directed 7 Notes to Infinity, a musical factual film which pays tribute to Indian Classical Music. It tries to explore the