A black and white portrait of Roopa Gogineni looking at the camera.
Roopa Gogineni
Photo courtesy Roopa Gogineni
Director

Roopa Gogineni (she/her) is a filmmaker and photographer based in Paris. For a decade she lived in East Africa where she developed a practice rooted in co-creation. Her films have premiered at festivals including IDFA, Hot Docs, and Sheffield DocFest. I am Bisha (2018), her documentary chronicling a satirical puppet show in rebel-held Sudan, received the Oscar-qualifying Full Frame Award for Best Short and a Rory Peck Award. Suddenly TV (2022), her latest short film about magical thinking and revolution, earned the SXSW Special Jury Award and the IndieLisboa Short Film Grand Prize.

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