Nisha Pahuja
Nisha Pahuja is an Emmy-nominated doc filmmaker and producer based in Toronto and Bombay. Her films have shown on PBS, ZDF/Arte the CBC, NHK and Netflix among others. Her credits include Diamond Road (2007 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Series) Bollywood Bound (2001 Gemini nominee), and The World Before Her (Best Documentary Tribeca Film Festival 2012; Best Canadian Documentary Hot Docs film festival 2012; TIFF Canada Top Ten 2012; Sundance Film Forward 2014). Pahuja’s short film for Global News’ 16x9 on the Delhi Gang rape, Indian Bus Outrage, was the recipient of Amnesty International Canada’s 2014 Media Awards for Audio/Video Award – Short Form. She currently sits on the arts panel for the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Residency Program and is in post production on her latest feature Send Us Your Brother, an exploration of masculinity in India.
