Nisha Pahuja

Nisha Pahuja
Pahuja in 2012
Born (1967-06-03) 3 June 1967 (age 57)
New Delhi, India
Occupation(s)Writer, filmmaker, artist

Nisha Pahuja (born 1967) is an Indian-born Canadian filmmaker, based in Toronto, Ontario.[1][2]

Her credits include Academy Awards nominated documentary film To Kill a Tiger, winner of 19 awards from festivals including a Nomination at TIFF, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Doc Aviv, and the Canadian Screen awards. The film will be released theatrically in the US in the Fall of 2023. The New York Times included it in their list of "Most Anticipated Fall Releases" and Anne Thompson at the Indie Wire named it to her Oscars' Contenders list for 2024.[3][4] Both Mindy Kaling and Dev Patel signed onto the film as Executive Producers along with Andy Cohen, Anita Lee, Atul Gawande, Andrew Dragoumis and others.[2]

Pahuja's previous films include the Emmy nominated The World Before Her, the feature documentary Bollywood Bound and the three-part series Diamond Road.

This writer/artist/director was introduced to film through studying English literature, working in social services and through working as a documentary researcher.[1] In 2014 Pahuja was invited to be a Resident Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center and later served on their arts selection panel from 2016-2020.[5]

  1. ^ a b Indiewire. "Meet the 2012 Tribeca Filmmakers #5: 'The World Before Her' Director Nisha Pahuja. Indiewire, 2012
  2. ^ a b Pahuja, Nisha. "To Kill A Tiger". Media Space. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  3. ^ Thompson, Anne. "2024 Oscars: Best Documentary Feature Predications". IndieWire. IndieWire. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  4. ^ Cohn, Gabe. "Here Are the Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2023". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  5. ^ The Rockefeller Foundation, 2015