Filmmaker Based in Mumbai, India best known for her critically acclaimed films – The Golden Thread (2022), Gulabi Gang (2012), Lakshmi and Me (2007). Her latest film, Farming the Revolution (2024) premiered at Hot Docs and won the Best International Documentary Prize.
Jain is a Chicken & Egg Award winner (2020); a Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (AMPAS); a Film Independent Global Media Maker Fellow (2019-20); and a Recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2019).
Jain’s films have been screened at over 250 film festivals including IDFA, Busan, Hot Docs, Sydney, Zurich, Viennale et al. They have won numerous international awards. Jain has served as a juror at Sydney Film Festival, TIDF, Zurich FF, IDSFFK, Cinema Verité, and IDFA. Retrospectives: Filmmaker in Focus: Sydney Film Festival 2025; Portrait of a Filmmaker: Film Fra Sir, Oslo; Filmmaker Tribute: FIDADOC 2025; Retrospective: Doc-Cevennes 2025; Retrospective: Dokumenter Yogakarta 2023. Jain has presented her films at numerous universities including Stanford, NYU, Berkeley, Wellesley College, UCSB, Northwestern University, UT Austin, Cambridge, University of London, St. Andrews University, Heidelberg, Danish Film School, FTII Pune, Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute.
Her films have received support from the IDFA Bertha Fund, Sundance Documentary Fund, Sorfund, Alter Cine Foundation, Indian Foundation for the Arts and Chicken & Egg Pictures and they’ve been broadcast on Arte France, France TV, PBS, DR, NRK, YLE et al.
Filmography (Director): City of Photos, 2004; Call it Slut, 2005; 6 Yards to Democracy, 2006; Lakshmi and Me, 2007; At My Doorstep, 2009; Family Album, 2010; Gulabi Gang, 2012; Proof, 2019; The Golden Thread, 2022; Farming the Revolution, 2024.
