Shirin Bhandari is an independent writer, photographer, and documentary filmmaker based in Metro Manila. Her work has been featured in Roads and Kingdoms, Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown, Pulitzer Center, SCMP, Women's Media Center, Slate, CNN, and VICE among others. Bhandari is a Logan Nonfiction Fellow and a member of the nonprofit group, Women Photograph.
She has produced documentaries for various humanitarian agencies in the UN, USAID, Save the Children, Action Against Hunger, EUAID, and CARE. Her stories have touched on important topics on war and conflict, displacement, malnutrition, HIV, LGBT/gender-based issues, and climate change.
Bhandari’s long-term documentary photography project The Show Goes On was featured in a book and festival in Heidelberg, Germany in the first half of 2024.
Her film, “People of the Lake” is a finalist of the IF/Then development lab of the Tribeca Film Institute and is supported by the Logan Nonfiction program, Asia Docs, and the Film Development Council of the Philippines. It is set to be completed in 2025.
Her current film, “The Fishermen Snared in the Scarborough Shoal Dispute” is supported by the Pulitzer Center, SCMP, and Roads and Kingdoms. It had its first US Screening at the DCEFF Environmental Film Festival last March 2024.
She is currently taking a Photography Documentary and Narrative course at VII Academy.
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