Shai Heredia is a filmmaker and curator. In 2003, she founded Experimenta, the international festival for experimental cinema in India. She has curated experimental film programs at film festivals and art venues worldwide, including the Berlinale, Germany and the Tate Modern, London. As an arts grantmaker with the India Foundation for the Arts (2006-2011), Heredia set up the curatorship and arts practice grant programmes. She is currently based in Bangalore, India where she teaches at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology and runs Experimenta India.