Nishtha Jain (born 21 June 1965) is an Indian film director and producer best known for her documentaries like Gulabi Gang (2012), Lakshmi and Me Archived 7 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine (2007) and City of Photos Archived 7 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine (2004). Her films interrogate lived experience at the intersection of gender, caste and class. They explore the political in the personal and uncover the mechanisms of privilege.[1] In addition to documentary film, she's been working across various platforms including narrative (Saboot/Proof [2019]) and virtual reality (Submerged[2016]).
Her training began at A.J.K. Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.[2] She then worked as an editor and correspondent for video news magazines Newstrack and Eyewitness. After this, she studied at Film and Television Institute of India, specializing in film direction.
Jain has served as a juror at IDFA, ZFF, Cinéma Vérité and IDSFFK. She's given lectures and master classes at numerous universities internationally, including Stanford, NYU, Wellesley College, UCSB, Northwestern University, UT Austin, Cambridge University, University of London, St. Andrews University, Heidelberg, Danish Film School, FTII Pune, India, Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute.
Her films have received several international awards and have been extensively shown in international film festivals, broadcast on international TV networks and regularly shown in schools and colleges in India and abroad.[3] She's a Chicken & Egg Award winner (2020); Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (AMPAS); Film Independent Global Media Maker Fellow (2019–20); and recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2019).[4]
Filmography edit
- City of Photos (60 min. 2004)
- Call it Slut (14 min. 2005)
- 6 Yards to Democracy (66 min. 2007) directed by Nishtha Jain, Co-director Smriti Nevatia
- Lakshmi and Me (59 min. 2007)
- At My Doorstep (70 min. 2009)
- Family Album (60 min. 2010)
- Gulabi Gang (96 min. 2012)
- Submerged (8 min. V.R. 2016)
- Saboot/Proof (21 min. 2019) directed by Nishtha Jain and Deepti Gupta
- The Golden thread (91 min. 2022)
References edit
- ^ Matzner, Deborah (1 January 2012). "Domestic Concerns, Transnational Fields: Two Recent Documentary Films from Mumbai and an "Interstitial Mode of Production"". BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies. 3 (1): 35–51. doi:10.1177/097492761100300104. ISSN 0974-9276. S2CID 144499019.
- ^ "3 Jamia Millia Islamia Alumni Invited to Be Members by the Academy". The Quint. 5 July 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
- ^ "Norwegian Film Database". Norwegian Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
- ^ "ABOUT". Nishtha Jain. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
External links edit
- Nishtha Jain at IMDb