Kavery Kaul

Kavery Kaul is an award-winning filmmaker whose early music film ONE HAND DON’T CLAP has been restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Women’s Film Preservation Fund. Its theatrical release was launched at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC) and has continued internationally. The Academy Film Archive has also restored WILD AT ART, BACK WALKING FORWARD, and LONG WAY FROM HOME.

Kavery believes that people are at the heart of any story. Through an intimate lens, she crafts stories which boundlessly straddle different worlds.

Her films have been featured at DOC NYC, Telluride, London, Sydney and other major festivals; in countries including India, Japan, Burkina Faso, Spain, and Italy; at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Kennedy Center (DC), National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC), Jameel Arts Centre (Dubai), and American Center (Kolkata and Delhi, India).

Her credits include THE BENGALI, which won the International Humanitarian Award at the Rhode Island Film Festival and the Special Jury Award at the Roxbury Film Festival, and went on to theatrical release. Featured in over 25 festivals worldwide, CUBAN CANVAS garnered an Imagen Award Nomination. WILD AT ART was featured at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Museum of Modern Art PS1 (NYC). Her other credits include the critically acclaimed BACK WALKING FORWARD, LONG WAY FROM HOME, and FIRST LOOK, narrated by Harry Belafonte.

An India-born New Yorker, Kavery has received numerous awards including a Fulbright Fellowship. As arts speaker on the occasion of Fulbright’s 75th anniversary, she reminded us that “Stories Matter”.