Nisha Pahuja

Nisha Pahuja is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Toronto and Bombay. Her credits include Diamond Road (2007 Gemini Award for Best Documentary Series), Bollywood Bound (2001 Gemini nominee) and the award-winning The World Before Her (2012; Best Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival; Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs Film Festival; TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten; Sundance Film Forward Program; Best Documentary nominee, CSAs). Pahuja’s short film for Global’s 16/9 about the Delhi Gang rape was the recipient of an Amnesty International media award for Canadian journalism in 2015. In 2014, she was invited to be a Resident Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and from 2016 to 2020 she was part of their arts selection panel.