Subasri Krishnan

Profile

Project title: 'Shadow Lines: The Politics and Poetics of Belonging in Assam'

Supervisor: Dr Yasmin Fedda and Dr Libby Saxton

Previous qualifications:

MA Mass Communication,

MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia

Research

Research Interests:

Borderlands,

Cartography,

Colonialism and Plantation,

More-Than-Human environment,

Migration,

Documentary.

Publications

Books

Curating the City: The Urban Lens Film Festival (chapter) in  the updated “Anthology of Asian Cinema” – Debashree Mukherjee, Intan Paramaditha, Sangjoon Lee and Zhen Zhang (eds.), 2024

Articles 

In Search of a Reimagined Belonging, Wire.in, 2025 

Thirty-Two Years Later, the Nellie Massacre Remains All But Forgotten, Caravan, 2015

Memory and Forgetting in Nellie, LiveMint, 2015

NRC in Assam goes much beyond Hindu-Muslim binary; ignores state's complicated history , FirstPost, 2018

Public Engagement

Curation

2013-2024 - Festival Director, IIHS Urban Lens film festival (Bangalore and Delhi). The Urban Lens film festival screens films of all genres from the global south. I have been the festival director since the inception of the festival.

2020 - Ways of Seeing and Being – a series of conversations with feminist artists, filmmakers and writers on what constitutes their practice for Partners for Law in Development (PLD).

2017- Festival Director, IAWRT Asian Women’s Film festival.

2014 - Festival curator of films from Sri Lanka, IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival.

Screenings

What the Fields Remember

2015 – International Film Festival of India, Colombo International Film Festival of India, Tasveer Film Festival, Film South Asia, SOAS South Asia Institute, Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Goettingen, India Institute, Kings College London, University of Westminster.

2016 – Yale University, Columbia University Brown University, Harvard University, Princeton University, MIT, NYU, UC Irvine, Stanford University, UC Berkeley.

2017 – Glauber Rocha Cinema, Salvador Bahia, Brazil.

2018 – University of East Anglia, Norwich.

2019 – Yamagata film Festival, Japan.

This or That Particular Person

2013 – International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), Colombo International Film Festival, Jaffna International film festival.

Brave New Medium

2010 – Al Jazeera film festival, Doha.