Award-winning filmmaker Pratibha Parmar began her career with documentary shorts, receiving international acclaim with ‘A Place of Rage’, a documentary about African-American womens’ role in the Civil Rights Movement, and for ‘Warrior Marks’, in 1993, with the Pulitizer Prize-winning novelist, Alice Walker.
Her drama credits include ‘Sita Gita’, ‘Wavelengths’ and ‘Memsahib Rita’, and she has directed pop videos for such artistes as Tori Amos, Morcheeba and Midge Ure.
Pratibha Parmar
2007 saw the release of ‘Nina’s Heavenly Delights’, a UK feature film which Pratibha directed and co-wrote. A romantic comedy, starring Laura Fraser, Shelley Conn and Art Malik, where Scottish humour meets Bollywood spectacle. The film follows the mixed fortunes of a Glaswegian family, the Shahs, and their award-winning Indian restaurant, The Taj.
In October 2007 she was awarded the Visionary Award for her body of work from the One in Ten Festival, and she is a past winner of the San Francisco Frameline Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award.
