SELECTED PRESS & INTERVIEWS
International Documentary Magazine, “Exclusive: Center for Asian American Media Announces Second Cohort of Building Bridges Documentary Fund Grantees,” November, 2025
Variety, by Naman Ramachandran, 2026
Dialogue with Ambarien Alqadar, Women in Film, Asia, 2026
Land of Dreams featured in Priyanka Dasgupta, “People’s Film Fest to Screen Tales of Resilience from Immigrants’ Lives,” The Times of India, 2006
Seattle’s Tasveer Film Market Unveils 40+ South Asian Projects for Inaugural Edition (EXCLUSIVE)" Variety, by Naman Ramachandran, 2004
Lab Winners for Screenwriting Excellence The Writer’s Ink, “With her film Nisa, Ambarien takes us through the joys, laughter, dreams and aspirations of Muslim women, and counters a narrative of victimhood.”, 2023
Veil of Freedom, Spotify for Podcasters, Available on Apple Podcast & Spotify, 2023
Limiting or Liberating? A Collection of Essays on the Hijab and the Politics Surrounding It. Financial Express, Shah, Shubhangi. July 30, 2023
Wall Stories: The Calligrapher of Old Delhi, University of Pennsylvania, Wolf Humanities Center, 2023
Second Sunday Culture Films, Wall Stories and The Calligrapher of Old Delhi, Archeological Institute of America, 2023
Loss and Transience: Vision Mix UK, 2021
Athena Screenwriting Lab Participants Announced, Women and Hollywood, 2019
Elephants in the Dark, Refractions in Muslim Identity, University of Pennsylvania, Middle East Center, Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
British Film Institute, World Cinema section- New Films from Asian Diaspora
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS
QueerFrames Screenwriting Labs, presenting on the development of Nisa alongside Alankrita Shrivastava (Lipstick Under My Burkha, Bombay Begums), Saim Sadiq (Joyland, Cannes Jury Prize), and Fawzia Mirza (The Queen of My Dreams, Signature Move), 2024
Erasure and Visibility: Working Notes on Sultana's Dream. The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 2023
Forum on Heritage, Penn Museum Culture Films & Wolf Center for Humanities, 2023
Finding/Funding the Creative Self as part of the Brooklyn Raga Massive and Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) series Uncovered/Recovered: Subcontinent on the Hudson, exploring South Asian migrations, labor, and creative life in New York, 12 Days in a Taxi, 2022
Writing/Walking, Conversation with cinematographer & filmmaker R.V. Ramani guest alongwith filmmakers Payal Kapadia, Saba Dewan, Rajula Shah, Aparna Subramanian, and Hemant Gaba, 2021
Filming the Muslim Woman, Conversation with journalist Teresa Rehman, 2021
Decolonizing Documentary and Building Solidarity in South Asia, International Documentary Association, Getting Real 2020. Panel moderated by Anam Abbas, alongside Anoma Rajakaruna, Arun Bhattarai, Deepti Gupta, Meenakshi Shedde, 2020
Making of Ghetto Girl: In Conversation with noted Indian writer, Urvashi Butalia, Ashoka University
Our Lives to Live: International Association of Women in Radio and Television, Goethe Institute, New Delhi, 2015
Art Creates Change, Kym Preusse Lecture, Ontario College of Art & Design & York, University, Toronto, Canada
Women, Conflict and Filmmaking, The Open Frame Film Festival, New Delhi, India
SELECTED SCHOLARLY CITATIONS
The Ghetto Girl, Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray, eds., Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice, Edinburgh University Press, 2024
Who Can Speak of Men? (2002) discussed as a primary case study in Rushaan Kumar, “Toward a ‘Freedom Life’: Notes on Transmasculine Placemaking in the ‘World-Class’ City of New Delhi,” Men and Masculinities 27, no. 4 SAGE Publications, 2024
12 Days in a Taxi, the South Asian Diaspora Film Guide, New York University Libraries Research Guides
The Ghetto Girl, Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Stanford University Press, 2018
The Ghetto Girl, Nadja-Christina Schneider, “Filming Urban Spaces and Entangled (Im)mobilities,” Studying Youth, Media and Gender in Post-Liberalization India, Frank & Timme, 2015
Four Women and a Room , Nadja-Christina Schneider, “Filming Urban Spaces and Entangled (Im)mobilities,” Studying Youth, Media and Gender in Post-Liberalization India, Frank & Timme, 2015
Who Can Speak of Men? , Nadja-Christina Schneider, “Filming Urban Spaces and Entangled (Im)mobilities,” Studying Youth, Media and Gender in Post-Liberalization India, Frank & Timme, 2015
The Ghetto Girl taught in “Critical Concepts in Contemporary Arts,” Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, instructor Juan Orrantia, 2016
Who Can Speak of Men? in module “Muslim Lives: Autobiography, History, Identity” as part of the unit “Film as Autobiography,” Loughborough University, UK, Dr. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, 2014–15
The Ghetto Girl in Dr. Sabeena Gadihoke, “Secrets and Inner Voices: The Self and Subjectivity in Contemporary Indian Documentary,” in The Cinema of Me: The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary, ed. Alisa Lebow (Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2012
Who Can Speak of Men? (2002) used and cited in Elakshi Kumar’s doctoral dissertation research, Apprehending Female Masculinity: Nationalism, Liberalization and Gender Nonconformity in North India, University of Minnesota, 2015