Shashwati Talukdar

Who is Shashwati Talukdar?

Shashwati Talukdar, is an India-born, academic-filmmaker based in New York City, with more than twelve films and videos to her name, and who has become well-known on the international film-making stage, particularly for her documentaries on cultural identity and representation.

Her work has appeared at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, Mediopolis-Berlin, the Whitney Biennial, Kiasma Museum of Art in Helsinki and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and has gained the support of Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 2002, Talukdar received the James T. Yee Mentorship Award from the Center for Asian American Media, and, then, in 2003, she received the Project Involve Fellowship from IFP/New York.