Anjali Kamat is a Peabody-winning and multiple Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, writer, and investigative journalist who has produced and reported nearly two dozen short films for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines and Democracy Now! Anjali has also been a Type Media Center Fellow, senior reporter at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and New York Public Radio, and Belle Zeller Visiting Professor in Public Policy at Brooklyn College. Her work has also appeared in ProPublica, The New Republic, Mother Jones, and other publications in the US, the UK, India, and Egypt. She has an MA from NYU and a postgraduate diploma from the Asian College of Journalism. New York City has been home for over 20 years now, but she grew up in Chennai, India. A 2024 Creative Change Artist-in-Residence at The Laundromat Project, The Return is her first feature documentary.

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ABOUT The Return

An Indian-American journalist dismayed at India’s Hindu supremacist turn realizes she can no longer ignore the ghosts in her family history. Speaking to her Pakistani friend in Brooklyn who tells her stories of why he fell in love with India, she finds the courage to confront her family.

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Film

The Return

Program Affiliation

PBS/Firelight William Greaves Production Fund

Cohort Year

2024

Website

anjali-kamat.com

Instagram

@anjucomet