Priya Thuvassery
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER · TELEVISION PRODUCER · CO-CEO, CHAMBAL MEDIA
Most people never get to decide which stories shape the world. I've spent my career changing who gets to tell them.
I'm a documentary filmmaker and Co-CEO of Chambal Media, home to Khabar Lahariya, India's rural feminist newsroom. My films, from Coral Woman to Survey Number Zero, follow gender, ecology, labour and memory, and have screened at festivals and forums worldwide. At Chambal Media, I lead strategy, partnerships and growth, building a newsroom and academy where women from marginalised communities don't just appear in the story. They tell it.
SELECTED FILMS
Coral Woman
The filmmaker's journey with Uma, a certified scuba diver, exploring the underwater world and the threat to the coral reefs of the Gulf of Mannar.
Survey Number Zero
Eight months with three Agariya salt farmers in the Little Rann of Kutch, on land that officially has no survey number.
City Girls
Umra and Kulsum move from Banda, a small town in Uttar Pradesh, to Delhi. In the city's anonymity, they work out who they are, and what 'the city' means for girls raised elsewhere.
My Sacred Glass Bowl
Who decided virginity should matter so much? Moving across cultures in India, the film questions the idea of 'purity' placed on a woman's body.
