沙什瓦蒂·塔卢克达尔，Shashwati Talukdar, is an India-born, academic-filmmaker based in New York City,[1] with more than twelve films and videos to her name,[2][3] and who has become well-known on the international film-making stage, particularly for her documentaries on cultural identity and representation.[3]Her work has appeared at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, Mediopolis-Berlin, the Whitney Biennial, Kiasma Museum of Art in Helsinki and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia [1] and has gained the support of Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.[1] In 2002, Talukdar received the James T. Yee Mentorship Award from the Center for Asian American Media, and, then, in 2003, she received the Project Involve Fellowship from IFP/New York.[1]