Loveena Tandon
14 years of experience in the media industry
RECENT STORIES COVERED
Almost 100 stories in past six months: all stories self-shot on JVC HD
Accredited to Foreign office; Westminster; Border Agency; Mayor’s Office.
The Royal Wedding; Obama’s UK visit; Protests against the Royal Wedding; Osama’s death; Indo-Pak Cricket Frenzy; World Cup Finals frenzy; Libyan issue; William Hague-Hillary Clinton talks; First Press conference held in London by the Libyan Rebel now in power; Olympics [ongoing]; Gen. Pervez Musharraf Rally in Sheffield; M F Hussain’s death; Materpiece 2011; Taste of Spain; London India Film Festival; News of the World; London Riots etc
Awards and Achievements
Sony Gold Award, Amnesty international and One World Documentary Award for a Documentary on, ‘Dowry’ broadcast on BBC Radio 4 show ‘Crossing Continents’.
Documentary on 'The Quest for Peace in Nagaland', telecast on ZEE TV and screened in the South Asia Film Festival -2000
Script Supervisor for the feature film 'Burlesque Fairytales’, screened at the Cannes Independent Film Festival 2010 and winner at the Seattle Independent Film Festival.
Co-author of‘English Grammar and Composition’, a book on English language and usage.
Work in progress on a book on wisdom stories from across the world and second edition of ‘English Grammar and composition’.
Taught filmmaking to the underprivileged children [Delhi]. The outcome was a film called,’ Youth yesterday, today and tomorrow’ screened internationally in UN gatherings and festivals.
Journalist 14 years[10 years in India and 4 in UK]
TV; Radio; Print; Online
In TV worked for BBC; Aaj Tak; Zee TV; Business Standard; CVB News Service bureau in charge, London] and Home TV
Written on freelance basis for Hindustan Times; Free Press Journal; Cosmopolitan etc.
Hosted Radio show for 9 years for All India Radio FM for 9 years
Online stories on
Voice over Artist
Professional Voice-over artist. Done documentaries, commercials; for my stories and some of my TV shows.
University teaching 4 years, ongoing
School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
Teach self-designed courses on ‘Reporting South Asia’ and ‘Development Communication’ to the post graduate media students of Cardiff University.
Swansea University, Swansea
Taught ‘Development Communication to the post graduate Media students
Film7 years
Script Supervisor
'Burlesque Fairytales:35mm Feature: Double Barrel Productions, London, Screened at the Cannes Independent Film Festival 2010; Winner-Seattle Independent Film Festival; OFFICIAL SELECTION AT Granada [Spain] and Notting Hill Independent film festivals.
‘Macbeth’s Discipline’, short film on High Definition; Spearean Interactive, London [shot in Kent]; screening in The Curzon Cinema. Watch the trailer of the movie on
Production team
‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’ Bollywood' Blockbuster Feature, a FilmFebruary 2003. Also shot the making of the film on a digi-cam.
Produced-Directed short films
On the largest educational group of Northern India –SGI; CARE, an international NGO; CSIR, one of the largest scientific research and development organizations in the world; ‘Walk the Talk’ and ‘Hey You’ for Green Peace short film competition.
Media Consultant 2 years
CASP-Plan, Tughlagabad, New Delhi
CASP is a non governmental organisation funded by Plan international. I advised on media policy and edited their news magazine.
Educational Qualifications
Charles Wallace Fellow to Cardiff University in 2005
M.Phil-Semiotics, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi
M.A-English Literature, JNU
B.A - VikramUniversity, Ujjain [Eng. Lit.; History; Psychology] (Gold Medallist)
Training / Short Courses/ Seminars
Connections Communication Centre, Ravenscourt, London
FCP editing; Z1 Camera; emerging technologies and using high definition; scheduling and budgeting using movie magic, funding and pitching for films.
North London Film Fund
Script writing for beginners [Tutor: Heather Tyrell]; Producing a short film; Script writing for shorts and features; Script editing [Tutor: Margaret Glover].
Languages Spoken
Fluent at speaking, writing and reading English & Hindi. Fluent at spoken, Urdu & Bengali