Paromita Vohra

Paromita Vohra is a documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. Her films as director are Un-limited Girls, a personal take on engagements with feminism in urban India which mixes fiction and non-fiction, Annapurna (1995), about a women food worker’s cooperative in Bombay's textile mill area, A Woman’s Place,(1999) an hour-length documentary for PBS on how women negotiate the space between law and custom to change their lives and those of other women in South Africa, the USA and India and A Short Film About Time (2000) an independent short fiction film about the funny-sad relationship between a young Bombay woman with a broken heart, her psychotherapist and his watch.

She is scriptwriter of Khamosh Pani (Golden Leopard, Locarno Film Festival, 2003), a Pakistani feature film about a woman abducted during Partition, whose past unravels as her son gets involved in the fundamentalist politics of Zia-ul-Haq’s regime (dir: Sabiha Sumar), A Few Things I Know About Her (Silver Conch, Mumbai International Film Festival 2002), a documentary that explores the many traditions that have sprung up around the life of Mirabai, a princess and mystic poet from 16th century North India (dir: Anjali Panjabi), Silver Conch, MIFF, 2002 and Skin Deep (dir: Reena Mohan), a faux documentary about women, body image and self identity.

As part of the international women in media collective A Woman’s Place, she is the India Co-ordinator for a media exchange project around identity and context between teenage girls in Bombay and New York. She teaches scriptwriting as visiting faculty at Sophia Polytechnic and is a PUKAR Associate.