Sonali Gulati
1. Sonali Gulati is a filmmaker was born in New Delhi, India. She received her B.A. in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College in 1996 and then went on to get her M.F.A. in Film & Media Arts from Temple University in 2004.her films are normally short experimental films. The films she creates emphasize diversity for the underrepresented and silent voiced. Besides for filmmaking Gulati also is a Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Photography & Film.
2. Around a half dozen films have been produced by Gulati. Many of them have not been well recognized besides for Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night, which explores the business process outsourcing America. Gulati uses animation, live action, and archival footage to express the complexities of globalization, capitalism, and identity.
3. I have not seen any of Gulati’s films. I tried to look for any of her films on the internet and could not find any able to view it. To view reflections on her work I found the websites: http://www.sonalifilm.com/nalini.html, or http://www.sonalifilm.com/nalini.html.
4. Gulati’s films have been screened at almost 200 film festivals worldwide. Many of the festivals have been in the U.S. However, her films have also been screened at the Interrnational Documentary Film Festival in New Zealand, Asian American Film Festival in China, at the University of Hong Kong, and many others.
5. I found Sonali Gulati by searching “female film directors” which took me to Wikipedia with a list of film directors with their country of origin. The process of finding a women “of color” filmmaker was not extremely difficult, but it was harder than to find any female filmmaker.