An MA in English literature and a graduate of FTII, Pune, Rajula works as an independent filmmaker, producing & directing short & feature-length documentaries, social communication videos, etc.

Her films Sabad Nirantar (2008) and Beyond the Wheel (2005) have been screened at various festivals across the world: Doxa Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada’09, Parnu International documentary and Anthropology film festival ’09, Voices from the Fringe, Amsterdam’09, Cinema Verite Iran International Documentary Festival, Tehran’08, World Film Festival, Bangkok ’08, National Film Archive of India, Pune, India’08, IAWRT-IIC Asia film festival, New Delhi’08, JDCA Film Forum, Bhuvneshwar, India’09, Vrittant Film Festival, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India’08, Allaince Francaise, Mumbai, India’09, Delhi International Ethnographic Film Festival, New Delhi ’09, IAWRT-IIC Asia film festival, Delhi/Mumbai/Chennai/Bangalore/ Kolkata, 2006, Mumbai International Film Festival, 2006, VIBGYOR, Trissur, Kerela,2006, FFSI’s SIGNS Film Festival, Thiruvananthapuram, 2006, MP festival at IIC Delhi June, 2006, Film festival cum Workshop at Vishva Bharati, Shantiniketan, September 2006, Asian-Afrikan Studies Department, Hamburg University, Germany, Sept, 2006, Film Festival, Slovenia, 2006, Film Festival on the Arts, Jatin Das Centre for the Arts, Bhubaneshwar Dec, 2006.

Sabad Nirantar was awarded the Horizonte Prize at Dokfest ‘08, Munich.

Her poems and short stories have been published in journals like Naya Gyanodaya, Vagarth, Sakshatkar, Madhumati, Samkaleen Bharatiya Sahitya, Indraprastha Bharati, Jansatta, Poorvagrah, JICPR, Ansuya, Tanav, Purovak, Indian Literature etc. Her poetry collection Parchhain ki Khidki Se was awarded the Navlekhan Puraskar by Bharatiya Jyanpeeth in 2004. She also wrote a column for the National School of Drama’s magazine, Rang Prasang.

She has translated Ila R. Bhatt’s We Are Poor But So Many into Hindi, and also poems by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad for the magazine Tanaav.

She was Writer-in-residence in Hamburg, Germany in 2006.

Rajula Shah At Pratilipi

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