About me
Shruti Parekh is an Atlanta-bred, Brooklyn-based filmmaker who tells intimate and incisive stories of life on the margins of society. Her award-winning work spans fiction, documentary, journalism and animation. Most recently, she won the CAPE/Janet Yang Productions Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge to direct her narrative short film, ZARI, in Delhi, India. Shruti’s previous short as a writer/director, ESPERANZA, won four awards and screened at over 20 festivals around the world. As a video journalist and documentarian, Shruti’s issue-driven work has garnered millions of views. Shruti got her start making music videos and working as an assistant to the acclaimed director Mira Nair on her 2013 film, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist.” Shruti has a BA from Brown University and an MFA in Directing from UCLA, where she received the Jack Nicholson Distinguished Student Director Award and the Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Production Fellowship. She is currently finishing her fourth short film, HOMEBODY.
