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Aashish Kumar

United States

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Title/Occupation:  Educator 

Services Provided:  Film/Video Editing 

Gender: Male

Citizenship: USA

Languages Spoken: English, Hindi, Urdu

Biography: 

I am an independent filmmaker and media educator based in New York City. I
am deeply interested in using documentary storytelling to influence local actions for
community advocacy or policy. I have produced independent documentaries and
worked in collaborative settings with community‐based organizations on themes
such as bias crimes, human rights, and mental illness. My most recent film The
Community I Serve won the “Best of Festival” award at the BEA Festival of Media
Arts and won an “Honorable Mention” at the Columbus International Film and Video
Festival. An earlier work on hate crimes titled Raising Our Voices was placed in a
permanent collection called 9/11 Digital Archive with the Library of Congress.
In 2008 I was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship that allowed me to travel to
Hyderabad to teach at the University and complete the bulk of my shooting for
Software from Hard Rocks, a film about a city in southern India and how it coped
with a growth spurt fueled by globalization. I am currently working on a
documentary about the newly independent nation of Kosovo, tracing its conflict-ridden
story of moderate Islam, nascent democracy, and its struggle for self-determination
in a globalized world.