Sarvnik Kaur is a documentary filmmaker who strives to tell stories that hide anxiety and conflict just beneath the surface of the normal and the mundane. Her first Indian documentary film Soz – A Ballad of Maladies explores the tradition of political resistance through music and poetry in Kashmir. The film won the President of India’s 64th National Film Award for Best Debut Film in 2017. Soz also won Best Film at 11th Film Southasia Kathmandu and Best Documentary at the 10th IDSFF Kerala. She has spent the past three years immersing herself in the Koli fishing community of Mumbai. She has made efforts to approach their lives and conflicts not just as a filmmaker, but as an ethnographer and a friend.
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