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Vaishnavi Sundar
Vaishnavi in Chennai
OccupationsFilmmaker, activist
Years active2008–present

Vaishnavi Sundar is an Indian independent filmmaker, actress, voice artist and activist. Her films have faced protests against transphobia.[1]

Early life

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Vaishnavi was born in Avadi, a suburb in the state of Tamil Nadu. She did her schooling there and got her bachelor's degree in commerce from Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai. She did her post-graduation in business administration from Anna University in Chennai.

Vaishnavi started out with acting under Theatre Nisha, a Chennai-based centre of drama.[2]

Career

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As an actress

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Vaishnavi began her acting career with Theatre Nisha seven years ago and has acted in plays such as The Pregnant King, The Red Queens of the Black Night, Siri Sampige, The Particle Collider and Fire and the Rain.[3] She has also directed four plays – To Write my Epitaph[4], The Lilac Ticket, A Beautiful Mind and Chitrangada (A Monologue). Of the four, she wrote and produced A Beautiful Mind and Chitrangada. Vaishnavi has also performed at the Soorya festival and the Rangashankara's Sampriti Festival.[5][6]

She has also worked as a voice artist and her work appeared in regionally hosted television series, including Nickelodeon cartoons Ninja Hattori, Perman, and a Korean feature film, Tidal Wave (2009).

As a filmmaker

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Vaishnavi began her filmmaking career in 2014 with Pava[7], a film about the metamorphosis of the relationship between a young girl and a barber. Her second film, The Catalyst,[8] came in 2015.[9] The film was inspired by the story 'Taxi Driver' written by the Indian writer Kartar Singh Duggal.[10] In August 2015, she directed a documentary on Palaeontology titled Unearthing The Treasures of Ariyalur.[11] This project focused on the fossils discovered in Ariyalur, a small village in Tamil Nadu.[12] During a short trip to Gangtok, Sikkim, Vaishnavi made a short documentary on the life of a female traffic cop by name Anju Chetri and called it Aage Jake Left. The film focuses on the Northeastern Indian women's admirable grit.[13]

Her film, But what was she wearing, is a documentary on workplace sexual harassment in India. It examines the Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act of 2013, and "juxtaposes the expectations and realities of seeking redressal" for such crimes under this Act.[14]

In January 2021, she conceived, directed and edited a four-part documentary series called Dysphoric: Fleeing Womanhood Like a House on Fire, made entirely via video conferencing software.

As a writer

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Vaishnavi is a published writer and has written about films, feminism and the social justice community in India. Her articles that have been published on platforms like Women's Voices Now[15] and The Hindu.[16] She is also a freelancing contributor to The News Minute,[17] Scroll.in,[18] The Ladies Finger,[19] Firstpost,[20] The Swaddle,[21] Provoke Magazine,[22] Worldpulse[23] Silverscree.in,[24]and Ozy[25].

As a curator, speaker and adjudicator

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In March 2016, Vaishnavi spoke about progressive filmmaking in Vital Voices Global Mentoring Walk – Chennai Chapter[26]. She was also an adjudicator for Women's Voices Now. In November 2017, she was invited as a Springboard Sessions Speaker at Samagra 2017, an annual event organised by the Melton Foundation. She is guest lecturer at the IIT Madras and speaks at various grassroots events across Tamil Nadu as part of her work with All India Democratic Women's Association.

As an activist

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Vaishnavi's work as a feminist activist started from a campaign she initiated against a Tamil magazine which described women's leggings as "obscene", on social media with the trending hashtag #OurClothesOurChoice which eventually compelled them to take-down the online version of the magazine.[citation needed].

Reproductive rights in India draw in her most recent work, which includes advocating for the availability of emergency contraceptive pills in the state of Tamil Nadu. The ban of over-the-counter ECP has been in place for 10 years[as of?] and her petition requesting the government to lift the ban so far has received more than 1500 signatures[as of?].[27] For this, she won a story award by World Pulse.[28]

In November 2017, she was invited by Al Jazeera to be in a panel discussing controversial Bollywood film Padmavati.

Her film, But What Was She Wearing?, is an attempt to educate women about their rights. She also advocates the pseudo-legal concept of "sex-based rights"[citation needed] in collaboration with the Women's Declaration International (WDI), an anti-transgender group.[29]

Her 2021 film: Dysphoric: Fleeing Womanhood Like a House on Fire is a four-part documentary series on gender identity ideology",[30] and she claimed that the screenings of the film were cancelled following allegations of transphobia.[1][31]

Other activities

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She recently launched a website called Women Making Films to highlight the gender disparity in the film industry.[32][33]The website hosts members from more than 19 countries. These members include Debalina Majumdar, Annupamaa, Iram Parveen Bilal, Revathy S. Varmha and Beena Sarwar.

Theatre

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Year Name Language Role
2010 The Pregnant King English Actress
2010 Red Queens of the Dark Night English Actress
2011 Shadjam English Actress
2011 Mathemagician English Actress
2012 Shadjam English Actress
2013 The Brave Tin Soldier English Actress
2013 The Little Match Girl English Actress
2013 The Fire and the Rain English Actress
2013 The Lilac Ticket English Director
2013 The Particle Collider English Actress
2013 Romancing Guy Maupassant in India English Actress
2013 The fire and the rain English Actress
2014 Siri Sampige English Actress
2014 Late for school English Actress
2014 To Write My Epitaph English Director
2014 Solladi Siva sakti Tamil Actress
2016 Chitrangadha English Writer, actress

Filmography

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Year Name Language Role
2010 Naanum oru penn (I'm a woman too) Tamil Actress
2010 Home Sweet Home Tamil Actress
2011 Unsweetened Tamil Actress
2013 The impossibility of dialogue Hindi Actress
2014 PAVA Tamil, Malayalam Writer, director
2014 Vela Taaralu Telugu Assistant director
2014 Objection over ruled Tamil Actress
2014 Urban Displacement English Actress
2014 Dwaraka Hindi Actress
2014 Samyuktam Teeugu Assistant director
2014 Dream A Dream Kannada Assistant director
2015 The Catalyst Kannada Writer, director
2016 Unearthing the Treasures of Ariyalur English Director
2016 Marupadi Malayalam Actress
2017 Aage Jake Left Hindi Director, cinematographer, editor
2018 To what end? English/Tamil Director, executive producer
2018 But What Was She Wearing? Multiple Director, executive producer
2018 Jackal's Womb NA Director, executive producer
2019 The Seal English/Hindi Producer
2021 Dysphoric: Fleeing Womanhood Like a House on Fire[34][35][36] English Director, producer, editor
2024 Behind the Looking Glass English Director, producer, editor
TBA Muted Wails English Writer, actor, producer

Festivals and screenings

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Behind the Looking Glass

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  • World Premiere on YouTube on 30 August 2024[37]

Dysphoric: Fleeing Womanhood Like a House on Fire

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  • Released online for worldwide distribution

But What Was She Wearing?

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  • Official selection – Udada International Women's Film Festival, Kenya 2018
  • Official selection – Nominee (Best Film) Independent Talents International Film Festival, 2018
  • Official selection – Colorado International Activism Film Festival, 2019
  • Official selection – 6th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra Awards, 2019

To What End?

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  • Official selection – Pitch Her Productions' Riveter Series: #MeToo, New York City, USA 2018
  • Official selection competition – Women International Film Festival. Islamabad, Pakistan 2018
  • Official selection – Cut the Gap! The HeForShe Vienna Gender Equality Short Film Day, Austria 2018

Aage Jake Left

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  • Official selection competition – Women International Film Festival. Islamabad, Pakistan 2017
  • Official selection competition – Cine Sister Women Women. Manchester, UK 2017
  • Official selection competition – London Feminist Film Festival. London, UK 2017

Unearthing The Treasures Of Ariyalur

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  • Official selection – International Festival of Women Filmmakers, Gauhati India 2016
  • Official selection competition – International Documentary and Short Film Festival Kerala Trivandrum India 2016
  • Official selection competition – Docademia's 2nd Short Documentary Contest Chicago, USA 2017

The Catalyst

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  • Official selection – International Festival of Women Filmmakers, Gauhati India 2016
  • Official selection – International Short Film Festival, Bangalore India 2015

Pava

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  • Official selection competition – International Documentary and Short Film Festival Kerala Trivandrum 2014
  • Official selection – Bangalore International Short Film Festival 2014
  • Official selection competition – Alpavirama – South Asian short film festival India, Ahmadabad 2014
  • Official selection – IAWRT – Asian Women's Film Festival, Delhi 2015
  • Official selection – Anthropo Children's festival, Slovenia 2015
  • Official selection – Under The Tin Roof Performing Arts Festival, Mumbai 2015
  • Official selection – International Women Film Festival, Afghanistan 2015
  • Official selection – FLO Film Festival, Mumbai 2016
  • Official selection – International Festival of Women Filmmakers, Gauhati 2016
  • Official selection – Women Making Films Festival, New York 2016
  • Winner – Women International Film Festival. Islamabad, Pakistan 2018

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 "Vaishnavi Sundar: Gecancelt vom Mainstream". Die Tagespost. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  2. ↑ Gopalakrishnan, Aswathy (14 March 2017). "Long Road To A Level Playing Field: Interview With Filmmaker Vaishnavi Sundar – Silverscreen.in". Silverscreen.in. Archived from the original on 6 August 2024. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "A spotlight for 10 minutes". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "To Write my Epitaph". Alliance Française of Madras. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Above and beyond". The Hindu. 5 November 2013. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "Theatre Nisha". Theatre Nisha. Archived from the original on 4 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  7. ↑ "PAVA a short film by Vaishnavi Sundar". Retrieved 5 September 2016 – via Vimeo.
  8. ↑ "Video on The Catalyst". The Catalyst. Archived from the original on 6 August 2024. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  9. ↑ "Auto Driver Focus of Experimental Film". Archived from the original on 1 December 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  10. ↑ "Art, against all odds". The Hindu. 31 July 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 26 March 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  11. ↑ "Unearthing The Treasures Of Ariyalur – A Documentary". Nirmukta. 29 January 2016. Archived from the original on 10 July 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  12. ↑ "Documenting a tale from the paleo-age". DT Next. 21 February 2016. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  13. ↑ "Long Road To A Level Playing Field". Archived from the original on 6 August 2024. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  14. ↑ "This Upcoming Film Will Help Us Understand What Happens After Cases of Workplace Sexual Harassment are Filed – The Ladies FingerThe Ladies Finger". theladiesfinger.com. 30 March 2017. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  15. ↑ "Community and Sisterhood". thewvoice.com. Archived from the original on 26 March 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  16. ↑ "Vaishnavi Sundar – thRead". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 26 March 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  17. ↑ "Articles by Vaishnavi Sundar". The News Minute. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  18. ↑ "Vaishnavi Sundar | Scroll.in". scroll.in. 26 September 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2024. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  19. ↑ "You searched for vaishnavi sundar – The Ladies Finger". The Ladies Finger. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  20. ↑ "Commitment to feminism". Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  21. ↑ "Reinventing Horror Cinema". Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  22. ↑ "The Tree Of Abuse". Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  23. ↑ "Lifting The Ban On Emergency Contraceptives". 14 February 2017. Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  24. ↑ Sundar, Vaishnavi (8 September 2019). "Why Women Must Make Bad Films For The Next 50 Years". Silverscreen.in. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  25. ↑ "Only Let Women Direct Superhero Films". 6 February 2020. Archived from the original on 23 February 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  26. ↑ "Vital Voices Global Mentoring Walk". WMF. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  27. ↑ "Petition on 'ban' of emergency birth control in TN goes viral". dtNext.in. 9 October 2016. Archived from the original on 17 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  28. ↑ "INDIA: Lifting the Ban on Emergency Contraceptives | World Pulse". World Pulse. 14 February 2017. Archived from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  29. ↑ "'Rights aren't a competition': Anti-trans hate is on the rise in Canada, activists and advocates say". CTV News. Archived from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  30. ↑ "Vaishnavi Sundar". Object Now. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  31. ↑ "I was cancelled for my tweets on transgenderism". Spiked-Online. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  32. ↑ "Muffled Voices Get a Mouthpiece". Archived from the original on 9 September 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  33. ↑ Prateek (25 February 2016). "Films and Feminism: The Melange of Progress". Nirmukta. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  34. ↑ "Dysphoric – A four part documentary on the rise of 'gender identity' ideology". Asiaville. 30 January 2021. Archived from the original on 6 August 2024. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  35. ↑ "Vaishnavi Sundar Talks About Her Latest Film 'Dysphoric – Fleeing womanhood like a house on fire". Rumble. WHRC. 21 February 2021. Archived from the original on 1 April 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  36. ↑ "Dysphorique : fuir la féminité comme une maison en feu (par Vaishnavi Sundar)" [Dysphoric: fleeing from womanhood like a house on fire (by Vaishnavi Sundar)]. Le Partage (in French). 28 February 2021. Archived from the original on 1 April 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  37. ↑ "Behind the Looking Glass - World Premiere". Retrieved 27 August 2024 – via YouTube.
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