Miriam Chandy Menacherry | India

Miriam is the Founder Director of Filament Pictures, dedicated to creating a brand of social documentaries that have won international acclaim. Her award-winning films are From the Shadows (2022), The Leopard’s Tribe (2022), Lyari Notes (2015), The Rat Race (2011), Robot Jockey (2007), Stuntmen of Bollywood (2005) and a 7 part series on BBC World. Her previous films have premiered at International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam and her most recent feature documentary From the Shadows had a special Women’s Day screening at SXSW in Austin, Texas. She is one of 18 fellows selected in the first cohort of the Global Media Makers Fellowship by Film Independent and US State Department. Recently From the Shadows became one of 10 films globally to receive the Hatched 2023 grant for Impact screenings by Chicken & Egg Pictures.

Her films have been broadcast on channels like NGC, BBC, Al Jazeera, TV2 Denmark, Arte France and Netflix, nominated and won awards at the One World Media Awards (UK) that recognizes under-reported stories from the Global South.

She has served as jury member on the IDA awards (USA), Kashish LGBTQ Festival and Indian Documentary Producers Association (IDPA) Awards.

Miriam is guest faculty at Industrial Design Center (IIT Mumbai), Mount Carmel College (Bangalore), Symbiosis (Pune)