Dr Kishore has been associated with the Gannat Festival since 1998. He has participated in the festival as a performer, a dance group leader, and since 2012 as a filmmaker and a collaborator. 

He has led four student internship projects in the festival. Three with the University of Newcastle film students, and one with the local French students. 

Dr Kishore has made 15 short documentaries on various folk dance, rituals and music groups that participated in the festival.