Koval Bhatia

Koval⠀is a director and producer based in India, with over 12 years of experience in the field. She began her journey in documentary filmmaking as the producer of Against The Tide, which won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2023. Her work has been supported by Sundance Documentary Fund, Catapult Fund, HotDocs, SFFILM, IDFA, Al Jazeera, DOKLeipzig etc. She graduated from Eurodoc in 2021 and is currently an IDA Getting Real Fellow. She was also awarded the Emerging Producer's Bursary by the World Congress for Science and Factual Producers.

She works as a writer, director and producer across various forms of storytelling, from broadcast TV episodes, documentaries (short and feature), branded content and more. She has headed A Little Anarky Films, a prominent production company based in India, for the past decade during which she has worked on projects for organisations and networks across the globe.

She has pitched her projects at Sheffield MeetMarket, HotDocs Forum, Visions Du Reel, Docedge Kolkata, DOKLeipzig and Docs By The Sea.