Ms. Sameera Jain is a film editor, director and educator. She has an interest in structuring pedagogic practice which pushes the boundaries of the documentary form and interrogates accepted codes around it. She directed the Creative Documentary Course (2013-23) SACAC, New Delhi.
After doing graduation in English literature, Ms. Jain went on to study filmmaking at the Film and TV Institute of India. She has been working in the field of cinema in various capacities for over four decades. Ms. Jain has conducted master classes, participated in film juries, spoken at various forums, and has had retrospectives of her work.
Some of the films Ms. Jain directed are Mera Apna Sheher (My Own City), Portraits of Belonging, Born at Home and If You Pause. She has edited documentaries, experimental shorts, essays, installations, and fiction. Some of the films she has edited are A Season Outside, A Night of Prophecy, The Lightning Testimonies, A Quiet Little Entry, Immoral Daughters, Such a Morning, Soul of Sand, Reaching Silence and Shadows in The Dark. The work has been shown across the world and won several awards.
During her Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence (Research) fellowship at UnionDocs, New York, Ms. Jain is exploring the possibilities of pedagogical structures and methods which facilitate exploration of the politics of representation through rigorous study and experimentation, to catalyze and nurture expressions that find their form afresh. In addition, she will work towards a draft of a publication that addresses experimental non-fiction film art pedagogy.