Nilita Vachani is a documentary filmmaker who has won numerous awards. Nilita is a writer as well as a teacher. Eyes of Stone, Diamonds in a Vegetable Market, and When Mother Comes Home for Christmas are three award-winning documentaries she created, directed, and edited. Nilita is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Chennai's Asian College of Journalism. She has won the Grand Prize at the Festival de Popoli, the Royal Anthropological Institute's Basil Wright Prize, the Golden Conch at the Bombay International Film Festival, the Prix Alcan du Jury at the Montreal International Film Festival for Women, the Uppsala Filmkaja in Sweden, the Asian Film Academy's Best Television Documentary in London, and the First Prize at the Torino International Film Festival for Women.
She's worked as an editor on various documentaries and as an assistant director and script supervisor on Mira Nair's fiction films. Her first novel was released in 2008 and earned the Foreword's Choice Fiction Award. She adapted The Hungry Tide, a novel by Amitav Ghosh, in 2011. Nilita also wrote a nonfiction book about modern-day slavery and domestic work.
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