Aarti Shrivastava

Aarti Shrivastava
Born 1983
Nagpur,
Maharashtra India
Notable work Foresting Life

Aarti Shrivastava is a national award-winning Indian documentary filmmaker & Asia 21 IPRYLI Fellow based in Mumbai. Her quest to tell human stories with a vision to drive change led her to produce documentaries, which got her critical acclamation globally.[1]

After graduating from Wilson College,she embarked on her career as a news reporter working with CNBC. She subsequeltly worked as a researcher on an Australian Documentary based on Mumbai terror attack of 26/11[2] before directing her two Award winning documentaries titled Land of widows and White Knight (Documentary), which were well received in the international festival circuit including Official Nomination in 7th Al-Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival Doha 2011.[3]

In 2013, she directed her third documentary titled Foresting Life which won the National Award for its earthly look at a man, forest he created all by himself, and the heroic effort that is necessary to sustain that forest without any government help. This documentary focuses on the life of Jadav Payeng who singlehandedly planted trees over the last 35 years and transformed a 1400 acre sandbar into a self-sustaining forest ecosystem.[4][5][6]

Jury member on various prestigious film festivals like Cebu International Documentary Film Festival,[7] IDPA Awards for excellence,[8] Jaipur, International Film Festival to name a few,[9] is currently engaged in producing and directing a multi-year feature length documentary project on Water crisis in India.

Besides Managing Humanity Watchdog Foundation, Which was conceptualized while she was studying social entrepreneurship at Stanford University, She also manages production on mega budget commercial Bollywood film projects like Kick, My Name Is Khan, and reality show Sur Kshetra[10][11][12]

Filmography

Awards

References

  1. ↑ http://asiasociety.org/asia21-young-leaders/2014-ipryli-fellows#Asia 21 IPRYLI
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1565436/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm#cast
  3. 1 2 "Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival". Festival.aljazeera.net. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  4. 1 2 National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film
  5. ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/National-Awards-for-five-northeast-films/articleshow/33834736.cms
  6. ↑ http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2015/01/29/molais-green-journey-to-padma-shri-glory/
  7. ↑ http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/entertainment/2015/08/24/cebu-festival-attracts-500-international-films-426379
  8. ↑ http://www.idpaindia.org/awards/awards_winners.htm
  9. ↑ http://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/editor/first_list_of_films_nominated_for_6th_jaipur_international_film_festival?page=9
  10. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/radio-and-tv/the-show-must-go-on/article3865863.ece
  11. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372222/fullcredits/
  12. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3315973/
  13. ↑ http://ecologos.ca/waterdocs-2013
  14. ↑ http://www.humanitywatchdog.org/toronto-premier-of-white-knight-opens-the-water-docs-film-festival
  15. ↑ http://www.jiffindia.org/documents/OVERALL%20SCHEDULE-Final-JIFF%202013.pdf
  16. ↑ Last Name: Invalid Input (2013-02-22). "Reel Earth Environmental Festival - White Knight". Reelearth.org.nz. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  17. ↑ "Films". Saffcanada.org. 2012-11-04. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  18. ↑ "Colorado Environmental Film Festival 2013 Program". Ceff.net. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  19. ↑ "Updates » Women Deliver Announces Cinema Corner Finalists for Women Deliver 2013". Women Deliver. 2013-03-08. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  20. ↑ "Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival". Festival.aljazeera.net. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  21. ↑ "Awardess Details". Cmsvatavaran.org. Retrieved 2013-05-19.

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