Aarti Shrivastava (born 1983) is a national award-winning Indian documentary filmmaker and Asia 21 IPRYLI Fellow based in

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. After graduating from

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, she began a career as a news reporter working with

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. She subsequently worked as a researcher on an Australian Documentary based on the

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, before directing her two award-winning documentaries, '' Land of Widows'' and

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, which were well received in the international festival circuit including Official Nomination in 7th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival,

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, 2011. In 2013, she directed her third documentary ''Foresting Life'' which won the National Award. This documentary focuses on the life of

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who singlehandedly planted trees over the last 35 years and transformed a 1400-acre sandbar into a self-sustaining forest ecosystem.

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She has been a jury member on various film festivals including the

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(Goa), Cebu International Documentary Film Festival, IDPA Awards for excellence,

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, International Film Festival to name a few, is currently engaged in producing and directing a multi-year feature-length documentary project on Water crisis in India. Besides managing the Humanity Watchdog Foundation, for which she had the idea while she was studying social entrepreneurship at

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, she also manages production on commercial

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film projects like ''

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'', and reality show

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Filmography

* ''

'' (2014) (Executive Producer) * Foresting life (2013) (Director) * ''

White Knight (Documentary) ''White Knight'' is an Indian documentary film directed by Aarti Shrivastava. The subject is Chewang Norphel, a 78-year-old engineer in Leh, Ladakh, who, over the last 15 years, has invented and implemented a technology that is helping provide ...

'' (2012) (Director) * '' Land of widows'' (2011) (Director) * ''

'' (2010) (Production Executive) * '' Kambakkht Ishq'' (2009) (Production Executive)

Awards

* National Film Award for the Best Environmental Film * Opening Film Water Doc Film Festival Canada 2013 * Official nomination 9th Al-Jazeera Documentary International Film Festival Doha 2013 * Official Selection Jaipur International Film Festival 2013 * Official Selection Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival * Official Selection South Asian Film Festival Canada 2012 * Official Selection Colorado Film Festival 2013 * Special Mention Women Deliver Cinema Corner Conference * Official Nomination 7th Al-Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival Doha 2011 * Livelihoods Award 6th CMS VATAVARAN Environment and Wildlife Film Festival Delhi 2011

References

External links

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Interview With Aarti Shrivastava

Dear Cinema

Times of India

G A T

Bollywodd Hungama
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