Filmmaker and writer. Producer of Sundance winning feature documentary.
Additional roles: grant writer, mentor, jury member, fund reviewer.
About
Koval Bhatia is a filmmaker and producer based in India. Her first feature documentary as main producer (Against The Tide) received the Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, the Best Feature Documentary at Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Golden Gateway Prize at MAMI 2023. Her short documentary as director and producer titled She Run The World premiered at DCEFF and Hot Docs Canada in 2023.
She has received fellowships and grants from Sundance, IDFA, Catapult Film Fund, Hot Docs, IDA, Al Jazeera, Doc Society, Hessenlab, Circle Accelerator, Eurodoc and EWA. She has pitched her projects at Sheffield MeetMarket, Hot Docs Forum, Docs by the Sea, Visions du Reel and DOKLeipzig.
She works as a reviewer at organizations including IDA, Catapult Film Fund, Doc Society, and the British Film Institute. She serves as Chair of Jury (Best Features) at the IDA Awards and as a mentor at the Open Table program for Indonesia Docs as well as Producerland in India.
Koval is a member of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, Film Fatales and BGDM.
