Anupama Srinivasan is a filmmaker, film educator and curator based in Delhi, India. An alumna of Harvard University and FTII Pune, she has been making documentaries for over two decades. Flickering Lights, the feature documentary that she co-directed, shot and edited received the Best Cinematography Award at IDFA international competition 2023. Nocturnes, which she co-directed and co-edited, premiered at Sundance 2024 where it received the Special Jury Award for Craft. Her work has received support from Catapult, Doc Society, IDFA Bertha, Sundance, Visions Sud Est and other funds.
The film takes us to rural schools in the predominantly tribal district of Dungarpur in southern Rajasthan. Children come from difficult contexts with very limited material resources, absentee fathers and younger siblings to attend to. How do teachers respond to this situation? How do they bring children to school and create an environment in which they are…
2023 IDFA
2023 Busan IFF
In a remote village on the Indo-Myanmar border, seventy years after Indian independence, news floats in that electricity might arrive. People are skeptical as they have been let down too often in the past. A woman dreams of a better future. A century-old man dreams of sovereignty for his…