Work Profile:

2004
• Co-Director & Scriptwriter "Adding Life To Days" a fundraiser for Cansupport, a National cancer support organisation.
• Editor & Scriptwriter "A Changing View" - a 25 minute film about an insurance scheme and hospital run by the tribal communities of Guddalore, Karnataka.
• Director & Scriptwriter "A Time For Stories" - a film on an Indian literary festival commissioned by PSBT, India [Public Service Broadcasting Trust]. The film looks at issues of identity through storytelling and features an extensive conversation with writer, Sundara Ramaswamy.

2003
• Producer, Director & Scriptwriter of "Miles To Go", a documentary commissioned by Greenpeace India. The film draws a link between human rights violations and violations of environmental regulations in India.

Honours:
• NOMINATED FOR BEST FILM, THE PLANET IN FOCUS FILM FESTIVAL, TORONTO 2004
• NOMINATED FOR THE ONE WORLD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, PRAGUE & BERLIN 2004
• SELECTED FOR A SPECIAL SCREENING VIKALP, INDIA - 2004
• SELECTED FOR A SCREENING OF ASIAN FILMS BY THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LONDON - 2003
• NOMINATED FOR THE BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD, 11TH ANNUAL RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, LONDON - 2003
• NOMINATED FOR THE NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION CATEGORY, VATAVARAN, INDIA 2003

2002
• Co-producer, Director & Scriptwriter of a documentary "In God's Own Country", produced by Elephant Corridor.

Honours:
• NOMINATED AT PINE FILM FESTIVAL, 2004
• NOMINATED AT ONE WORLD INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL, OTTAWA, 2004
• NOMINATED FOR BEST FILM - PLANET IN FOCUS FILM FESTIVAL, TORONTO, 2004
• NOMINATED FOR THE NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION CATEGORY, VATAVARAN INDIA 2003
• NOMINATED FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2002
• OFFICIAL SELECTION - 10th ANNUAL RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, LONDON 2002

2001
• Co-Director & Scriptwriter "A Step Forward" a film about women fishworkers and their quest for a sustainable fishery. Commissioned by International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, [ICSF - India].
• Co-Director & Scriptwriter "Khamoshi Kyon" [in Hindi] & "Talk Positive" [in English] a 13-part talk show on HIV-AIDS issues hosted by Neena Gupta and telecast on Doordarshan.
• Co-Director &Scriptwriter - "Murky Water" "Wasting Away" "Holy Smoke" "Match-Box City" a series of 8 minute films on urban pollution. Commissioned by TERI [The Energy Research Institute].
• Director & Scriptwriter "Kalpavriksha" a documentary on medicinal plants and folk healers commissioned by UNESCO.

Honours:
• 2nd PRIZE, BIODIVERSITY SECTION VATAVARAN 2003.
• Segment Producer "Earth Matters" a weekly series on Indian environment & development issues produced by Riverbank Studios. Telecast on Doordarshan News. [1999-2001]

2000
• Co-Director & Scriptwriter "Terra Quiz" a 13-episode National quiz programme produced by TERI - telecast on Doordarshan.
• Researcher, "Shores Of Silence" an award winning documentary on whaleshark hunting in India. The film won the Green Oscar at Wildscreen.

1999
• Co-Director & Scriptwriter "2 Peoples, One Movement" a film comparing peoples movements to save the environment. The film was the result of a documentary workshop organized by Thomson Foundation, Wales and the European Union for which 12 Indians were chosen.

1998
• Assistant Director "Asli Azadi" a documentary on India's women Freedom Fighters, directed by Sagari Chabbra.
• Location Manager for a film on Population made by PBS, USA.

1997-98
• Assistant Director, Scriptwriter & Researcher to the Bedi Brothers [wildlife film makers] for a wildlife series "Jungle Ki Pukar".

1997
• Assistant Director & Scriptwriter, "Maneka's Ark" a weekly talk show on wildlife and environment, hosted byManeka Gandhi and telecast on Star Plus.

Publications
" 6000 Kilometres On the Toxic Trail" - Agenda Special Issue, Dec 2004
" A River Runs Through It" - Humanscape, October 2000

Education
• Certificate Course, TV Documentary Production, Thomson Foundation, Cardiff 1999
• M.A, Mass Communication, Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. 1997
• Post Graduate Diploma, Journalism, Madras Christian College, Chennai 1994
• B.Sc, Zoology, Madras Christian College, Chennai. 1992
• Diplome [level 3], French, Alliance Francaise, Chennai 1993

Languages
Fluent in Hindi, Tamil, English, French

A graduate in Zoology, her early childhood was spent on the Chennai coast and she was actively involved with the Student Sea Turtle Conservation Network there for more than 10 years. Later she got a Masters degree in Film and Television from New Delhi's Jamia Millia University.

Nina has always worked on films that deal with environment and development issues. Her first directorial venture "Kalpavriksha, Legacy of the Forests" is a film on medicinal plants commissioned by UNESCO. The film won an award at Vatavaran 2003. She also directed Khamoshi Kyon, a talk show on AIDS-related issues for the National Network.

She was one of 12 Indians selected to participate in an environment documentary workshop by the Thomson Foundation, Wales in 1999. This resulted in a film 'Two Peoples One Movement' a documentary comparing peoples' movements in Europe and India.

In 2001, Nina co-founded a film collective called Elephant Corridor and has been working independently under this banner since. Her productions under Elephant Corridor have been showcased in festivals in India and abroad.

Nina is also a skilled still photographer and writer. She has scripted all her films as well as designed their publicity packages.

More information on Elephant Corridor and Nina Subramani is available on www.elephantcorridor.org

Films
Two Peoples One Movement, 2000 - for EU and Thomson Foundation
Kalpavriksha, Legacy of the Forests, 2001 - for UNESCO & Riverbank Studios
Holy Smoke & Murky Waters& Wasting Away & Matchbox City 2001 - for TERI
In God's Own Country, 2002 - producer Elephant Corridor
Miles To Go, 2003 - for Greenpeace India, producer Elephant Corridor
A Time For Stories 2004 - for PSBT, producer Elephant Corridor

Studio based programmes
" Terra Quiz" 2000 [co-director & scriptwriter] produced by TERI
" Khamoshi Kyon" 2001 [co-director & scriptwriter] produced by NACO
" Talk Positive" 2001 [scriptwriter] produced by NACO