Sonali Gulati
Sonali Gulati is an Indian American independent filmmaker, feminist, grass-roots activist, and educator. Gulati grew up in New Delhi, India. Her mother, a teacher and textile designer, raised her independently, She has made several films that have screened at over five hundred film festivals worldwide.
Sonali Gulati
- Name
- Sonali Gulati
- Birthplace
- New Delhi, India
- Occupation
- Film director
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Capital Foundation Award
- Born
- 1972. · New Delhi.
- Nationality
- India.
- Education
- Mount Holyoke College.
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Sonali Gulati is an Indian American independent filmmaker, feminist, grass-roots activist, and educator. Gulati grew up in New Delhi, India. Her mother, a teacher and textile designer, raised her independently, She has made several films that have screened at over five hundred film festivals worldwide.
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Biography
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Her films have screened at venues such as the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and at film festivals such as the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the Black Maria Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, and BlackStar Film Festival. She has an MFA in Film & Media Arts from Temple University, and a BA in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College. She is currently a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Photography & Film.
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• Name — Sonali Gulati • Birthplace — New Delhi, India • Occupation — Film director • Awards — Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Capital Foundation Award • Website — https: www.sonalifilm.com/
Filmography
Filmography
• Occupy (work in progress) • Bye Bye Lullaby (2023) • Miles & Kilometres (2021) • Big Time-my doodled diary (2015) • I Am (2011) • 24 Frames per Day (2008) • Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night (2005) • Where is there Room? (2002) • Name I Call Myself (2001) • Barefeet (2000) • Sum Total (1999)
Identity
Identity
Sonali Gulati is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship.
Writings
• "Place of Safe Landing" Queer Potli - Memories, Imaginations and Re-Imaginations of Urban Queer Spaces in India, ed. Pawan Dhall, QI Publishing, 2016 • "The Fight to Live", Outlook, Outlook Publishing Group, 2 July 2015 • "Welcome to Your Own Festival: Review on Nigah QueerFest’07." Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol. XII Nos. 5 & 6, June 2007 • "Confessions of a Desidyke: A Filmmaker’s Journey from Ignorance." Trikone Magazine, Vol. 20, No.4 March 2006 • "Sum Total." Because I Have a Voice, Queer Politics in India, ed. Arvind Narrain and Gautam Bhan, Yoda Press, 2005
Film
Sonali Gulati has made several short films and a feature-length documentary film. Gulati's award-winning 2005 documentary film, Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night explores business process outsourcing in India. The film was broadcast on public television in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, The Middle East, South Asia and North Africa. Her film I AM has won 14 awards and continues to exhibit extensively. Gulati's award-winning documentary film I Am was broadcast on public television and cable TV in the U.S. and Portugal. Her documentary film Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night, was broadcast on television in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Asia, and North Africa.
Awards
Gulati is a Guggenheim Fellow in Film. She has won awards, grants, and fellowships from the Third Wave Foundation, World Studio Foundation, the Robert Giard Memorial Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, the Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts, the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), VCU School of the Arts Faculty Award of Excellence, grants from Creative Capital and was a Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video in 2013. Gulati is a Guggenheim Fellow in Film. She has won awards, grants, and fellowships from the Third Wave Foundation, World Studio Foundation, the Robert Giard Memorial Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, the Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts, the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), VCU School of the Arts Faculty Award of Excellence, grants from Creative Capital and was a Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video in 2013. Her film I AM won several awards in the US and India: • Gay/Lesbian festival prize (2011), Great Lakes Film Festival • Special Jury Awards (2011), KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival • Audience choice award for documentary feature (2011), Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival • Grand Jury Prize, 10th Asian Film Festival, Dallas TX • Grand Jury Prize: Best Documentary, Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA)
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- 1.The Feminist Wire. Feminists We Love: Sonali Gulati.
- 2.BIO. Sonali Gulati.
- 3.Smith, Tammie. Filmmaker Sonali Gulati explores layers of identity. Richmond Times-Dispatch. 29 April 2012.
- 4.Feminists We Love: Sonali Gulati – The Feminist Wire.
- 5.Mount Holyoke College. Sonali Gulati. 8 June 2012.
- 6.XFinity. 'I Am' – A Conversation with Sonali Gulati.
- 7.Sonali Gulati. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- 8.Sonali Gulati.
- 9.Day & Lesbian. greatlakesfilmfest.com. 2011.
- 10.Kashish 2011. KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival.
- 11.2011 Season. Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival.
- 12.2011 (10th) Asian Film Festival of Dallas.
- 13.Udaan, I Am among winners at Indian Film Festival of LA.
- 14.BlackStar Is the North Star for BIPOC Media Artists. International Documentary Association. 2022-08-26.
- 15.I AM. www.sonalifilm.com.
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