Alisha Tejpal
Alisha TEJPAL is an Indian filmmaker who lives between Los Angeles and Mumbai. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been screened at various international film festivals, including San Sebastián, Sundance, Rotterdam, Camden, Black Canvas and Dharamshala International Film Festival. Her short, Lata (2020), won multiple awards and her work has received support from the Sundance Institute, Film at Lincoln Center and the Points North Institute. She was a fellow at the 2018 Doc’s Kingdom Seminar and most recently, she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship. Alisha’s works vary in form, but their commonality lies in their investigation of the invisible.
Filmography
(all short) Losing Light (2019), Lata (2020), Landscapes of Longing (2024)
Alisha Tejpal op IFFR
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Landscapes of Longing
Alisha Tejpal, Mireya Martinez, Anoushka Mirchandani | 14' | India | International premiere
An associative collage that traces generational echoes of migration through photographs, language, maps and corporality. -
Lata
Alisha Tejpal | 21' | India | European premiere
The daily routine of an employee at a Mumbai apartment complex provides insight into the social structures influencing her life.