Surabhi Sharma

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Surabhi Sharma
Born
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Alma mater Film and Television Institute of India, Pune
Occupation(s) Filmmaker, Educator, Curator
Years active1998 – present
Website https://surabhisharma.wordpress.com

Surabhi Sharma is a filmmaker, educator and curator, [1] based in Mumbai, India. [2] She has worked on several feature-length documentaries apart from some short fiction films and video installations. [3] Her key concern has been documenting cities in transition through the lens of labour, music and migration, and most recently reproductive labour. Cinema verite and ethnography are the genres that inform her filmmaking., [4] [5]

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Educational background

Surabhi Sharma studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. She holds a post-graduate diploma in Social Communication Media from Sophia College for Women and a BA in Anthropology and Psychology from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai

Curating and teaching

Surabhi Sharma curated for FD Zone, a weekly programme of independent films and films from the archives of the state run Films Division of India. [6] The programme was a result of curation by a small group of Mumbai-based Independent filmmakers. FD Zone ran successfully from 2012 until 2015. She co-curated a film festival titled, Shehernama: a city/film festival, in 2014. The festival traveled to a few cities and universities after premiering in Mumbai. She was the guest festival director of ViBGYOR Film Festival, 2014. Surabhi Sharma conducts intensive 2-3 weeklong documentary filmmaking workshops [7] at the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, K. R. Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, Kerala. and Whistling Woods International Institute, Mumbai. She has been a guest lecturer at the School of Media and Cultural Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Social Communications Media, Sophia College for Women, Mumbai, Film and Television Institute of India, Pune and at the Symbiosis International University, Pune.

Fiction and television

Scripted fiction tele-films for the programme titled ‘Rishtey (TV series)’ and 'Gubbare' on Star TV in the late 1990s. Did research and scripting for various non-fiction programmes for television. 'Bhoomi' [8] was a proposed series on the environment and 'Teen Talk' [9] was telecast over a year. Wrote Hindi dialogues for a television serial, 'Sehar'. The programme was telecast on Star TV in 2000–2001. Direction and scripting of more than 10 episodes of a fiction programme on concepts of science for children meant for telecast, produced by the Karnataka State Government.

Filmography

YearTitle
2017Phir Se Samm Pe Aana/ Returning to the First Beat [10]
2013Bidesia in Bambai [11]
2012Can We See the Baby Bump Please? [12]
2011Tracing Bylanes [13]
2009Labels from a Global City [14]
2008Pregnancy, Prescriptions and Protocol [15]
2007Jahaji Music: India in the Caribbean [16]
2004Above the Din of Sewing Machines [17]
2003Aamakaar (The Turtle people), [18] [19]
2001Jari Mari: Of Cloth and Other Stories [20]

Video Art

YearTitle
2016Riyaaz [21]
2015Making Music, Making Space [22]
2011The Enactment of Exile in Mumbai [23]

Awards

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