Born and raised in New Delhi, Nandini Sikand is an independent filmmaker and freelance televison producer based in New York City. All her films have won awards and have screened at numerous domestic and international film festivals. Nandini has been awarded grants for her films from The Jerome Foundation (1997-98) and New York State Council on the Arts (2001-02). She also produced the documentary, Mahasweta Devi: Witness, Advocate, Writer (2001). She is on the board of directors of Film/Video Arts 2003 Artist Mentor Workshop. In television, she has worked on projects for Channel Four: UK, Rainbow Programming, Ovation: the Arts Network, HBO, Oxygen Media and The History Channel. Nandini is an Indian Classical dancer and co-founder and co-director of the Trinayan Collective. She is pursuing a PhD at in Cultural Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY and has taught courses on production and film theory at Hunter College, CUNY and Swarthmore College, PA.
Her own website: www.nandinisikand.com. She can be contacted at nsikand@yahoo.co