2023 Chicken & Egg Award Finalist Development Grant Recipient

 

FARIDA PACHA: 2023 CHICKEN & EGG AWARD FINALIST DEVELOPMENT GRANT RECIPIENT

Documentary filmmaker Farida Pacha looking directly at the camera. Black and white portrait, background out of focus.
Credit Lutz Konermann / Leafbird Films

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Farida Pacha (she/her) studied Anthropology and Sociology in Mumbai before obtaining her MFA in filmmaking at Southern Illinois University. Her debut feature documentary, My Name is Salt (2013), has won 35 international awards including the main prizes at film festivals in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Madrid, and Mumbai, as well as the prestigious German Camera Prize. Her latest documentary Watch Over Me (2021) received the Grand Jury Documentary Award at the Movies that Matter Festival at The Hague and was nominated for The Robert and Frances Flaherty Award at the Yamagata International Film Festival.

In 2018, she received the IDFA Bertha Fund Europe and the Jan Vrijman Fund in 2008 and 2010.