Kartiki Gonsalves is an Indian director, documentary film-maker. The first Indian Film Director to have ever won an Academy Award in the history of India. She is one of the first women chosen as a Sony Alpha Artisan of Imagery in India. She is also associated with brands like Peak Design, Swarovski Optik Nature Explorer 2021, and photojournalist currently based out of the Nilgiri mountains in the Western Ghats of Southern India. Gonsalves is the founder of Earth Spectrum, an organisation founded in 2018 which uses the power of storytelling to raise awareness about biodiversity and cultural life.
Kartiki infuses her passion for adventure to bring new perspectives and a deeper public understanding to the environmental and humanitarian issues that define our times. She strives to document our natural world and to help others better understand the profound connection that we share with it. On the cultural side, she focuses on capturing the diversity of cultures and tribes across the world where she seeks to give a platform to women and indigenous tribes, especially those working to conserve nature. Kartiki focuses on solutions and highlight projects that show success stories where conservation is working to give hope.