DIRECTORS

Shashwati Talukdar, Director/Producer, began working in film and television as an assistant editor for a TV show by Michael Moore (1999). Since then she has worked on projects for HBO, BBC, Lifetime, Sundance and Cablevision in New York, and KBS in South Korea. Her films have screened at venues including Hot Docs, Busan International Film Festival, Margaret Mead Festival. Her experimental films and video art is regularly shown in galleries and museums around the world, including the Whitney Biennial. She has been supported by entities including the Tribeca Foundation, Asian Cine Fund in Busan, the Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts among others. He most recent film is ‘Marriage Cops’ a feature documentary set in her hometown of Dehradun, India.

Being fluent in two Indian languages, and with basic competency in Mandarin Chinese, has allowed Shashwati to work on projects set in East and South Asia through her New York based company, Four Nine and a Half Pictures, Inc. Shashwati has an MFA in Film and Video Arts from Temple University, Philadelphia (1999), USA and an MA in Mass Communications from Jamia Millia Islamia (1992). She lives between India, Taiwan and the US.