MEGHNA HALDAR
Writer, Director, Producer
Meghna Haldar is a storyteller, educator and screen-based artist, a settler on Tsleil-Watuth lands in North Vancouver. Her award winning work, including Dirt, Bol (Speak!), Revival, Matrilineal and Newcomers Swim, Every Friday, deals with ideas of otherness and the politics of belonging. She has screened at museums, conferences, festivals and art galleries in Taiwan, Britain, Ireland, North America, Guatemala and her native India.
She was an MSG Playwright (2020-2021) for the Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre with her play Termite.
Her essay Dirt: A Social Mirror was published in the book From Conflict to Recognition: Moving Multiculturalism Forward by Rodopi/Brill in 2012.
She is a Gold Medalist in MA Communications from the University of Hyderabad, India and was awarded the Warren Skaaren Endowment Prize for her MFA in Radio Television and Film at the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught film production at ECUAD, Arts Umbrella, University of Texas at Austin and is an alumni of WIDC, NSI Features First, Melting Silos and the Wet Ink collective.
She is presently developing a multi-phased participatory feature film project Beej with the indigenous Gond community in partnership with the UNESCO Chair for Community Media, Bhasha Research Centre and indigenous and non-indigenous artists.