Delhi, India
$350 - $650 / Day
With over 17 years of work experience that covers the range and breadth of film production, Akanksha has developed and honed her skills, often in extremely high pressure – high demand settings which range from the jungles to tent pole feature films, crafting scripts to negotiating complex acquisition & co-productions and now to producing and directing her own films. Akanksha’s films have seen first broadcast on networks like BBC, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, ZDF, Discovery, Animal Planet, PBS US, NDR Nature Films, Public Television Taiwan, Arte, France 5, Channel 4, Smithsonian Channel, and NHK. Akanksha has won three National Film Awards given by the President of India, a Wildscreen (Green Oscar) Nomination, a UN Film Award, a Nomination at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and recently, the World’s Emerging Documentarian Award. She is one of the Juror for the 2018 International Emmy ® Awards – Documentary category.
Produced for Discovery Channel
Manas National Park was destroyed by a two-decade war, resulting in an almost complete loss of wildlife. With the help of scientists and armed rangers, animals are slowly returning, but Manas needs all of the giants back if it has any chance of recovering. The story reveals a new threat to the future of Manas, a tree threatening to take over its grasslands. Can the future of Manas be secured?
Produced for NHK
An incredible story of a school dropout and grassroots innovator, Arunachalam Muruganantham. The film explores how his innovation, a low-cost sanitary-pad making machine, is changing the face of menstrual hygiene for thousands of women across India. It may not sound path breaking, but this simple machine has the potential to change lives of women across the world and give them dignity.
Produced for Discovery Channel
TIGRESS BLOOD is a coming-of-age story as four sister tigers battle each other for dominance over their homeland. Desperate and starving, the four sisters make a startling choice. They join forces to hunt as a pack and take on dangerous prey, culminating in a never-before-filmed hunt of a tiger family taking down a sloth bear.
On The Brink is an 8 part series that gives an unprecedented portrait of India’s natural world, exploring species and habitats rarely seen on Indian television. I am the Producer and Director.
Produced for Kosmik Media
On the 13 day, a grand feast is given in honour of the dead. Hundreds of people are invited and this costs the family a good deal of money. Sometimes the poor have to take loans and incur heavy debts which they are unable to repay. The government has banned death feasts because they are a curse for the poor. However, this is not being followed as in the hinterlands of India.
Produced for Kosmik Media
Branded video to announce the launch of the Wings Shoes Collection in India
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