Hyderabad Literary Festival

Pooja Sampath

Speaker

Pooja Sampath is an Executive Producer, Filmmaker, and Creative. She is a former Executive Producer at Network18, and worked on a documentary series for CNA Insider (Singapore), We don’t play Dolly, which was nominated at the Cannes MIPCOM Diversify TV awards (2022). Her independently produced fiction short “Notary” won laurels at The Independent Short Awards, LA (2019 and 2022), and at other film festivals. She has worked as a VFX Production Manager at a studio in Germany. She shifted to documentary productions, telling stories of the natural world. She is working on a documentary on seed-saving practices in India, and a film on the lives of a coastal community.