Nishtha Jain (born 21 June 1965) is an

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and producer best known for her documentaries like ''

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(2012)
Lakshmi and Me
(2007) an
City of Photos
(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. In addition to documentary film, she's been working across various platforms including narrative
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, specializing in

film direction A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, pr ...

. 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. She's
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 o
Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship
(2019).

Filmography

*''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)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jain, Nishtha Indian women film directors 1965 births Living people Indian documentary filmmakers People from Jhansi district Indian women film producers Film producers from Uttar Pradesh Film directors from Uttar Pradesh 21st-century Indian film directors 21st-century Indian women artists Indian women documentary filmmakers Jamia Millia Islamia alumni 21st-century Indian Jains