
Anupama Srinivasan (she/her) is a filmmaker, film educator, and curator who has been making documentaries for more than two decades, often shooting and editing her own work. Her films have screened at global film festivals including Sundance, CPH:DOX, HotDocs, IDFA, Sheffield DocFest, FIPADOC, the Centenary Film Festival, Film Southasia, ImagineIndia, and the international film festivals in Thessaloniki, Busan, Yamagata, Mumbai, and Peloponnisos.
Anupama co-directed, shot, and edited the feature documentary Flickering Lights, which received the Best Cinematography Award at IDFA 2023. Anupama was part of Film Independent's Global Media Makers LA Residency in 2022 with the project Nocturnes, which she co-directed and co-edited. Nocturnes premiered at Sundance 2024, where it received the Special Jury Award for Craft.
Anupama has been Visiting Faculty at National Institute of Design, Ashoka University, SUPVA Rohtak, Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication, and Indian Institute of Mass Communication. She was the Festival Director of the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival for three years (2013–2015) and of the Peace Builders International Film Festival in 2016.
Anupama’s CEA project is Metropolis.