Aarthi Parthasarathy (India)

Aarthi Parthasarathy is an Indian filmmaker, writer and comic researcher, and has worked on many short films and animations, as well as written a number of comics, short graphic stories, articles. She founded Falana Films, a Bangalore-based creative film and animation studio along with Chaitanya Krishnan. She created the webcomic Royal Existentials and is part of Kadak Collective, a group of South Asian women graphic artists and writers, who discuss issues of gender and sexuality through their work.