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A home for India’s documentary lovers—filmmakers, thinkers, viewers, and the curiously curious.
About Us
We screen, we gather, we share resources, and we’re slowly building a dream-shaped nest.
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The India Doc Project is an independent initiative dedicated to fostering a vibrant documentary culture in India and championing Indian documentaries through a dedicated documentary festival, screenings, creating a platform for meaningful storytelling, inspiring critical conversations, and bringing the richness of Indian documentary filmmaking to the forefront.
Hanging out with us
We’re building a growing resource shelf — through filmmaker interviews, doc information, and workshops.
We send out a monthly newsletter filled with recommendations, doc-news and open call deadlines.
We host cozy screenings in Delhi, Lucknow and Pune— intimate, thoughtful, and open to all.
Disco, our party cat, shows up where the vibe’s fun, the lights are low, and the docs are rolling.
Meet our Doc-stars
Aditi Sharma
Founder
Waris Ansari
Partner, Lucknow Chapter
ADITI SHARMA studied cinematography from the Film and Television Institute of India and then went on to shoot and co-produce two award winning indie films “Tikli and Laxmi Bomb” and “Incessant Fear of Rape”, which were later released on Netflix India. Her last film as a DP “Not Today” won the FIPRESCI in 2021. In 2022, Aditi was chosen as one of the finalists for Netflix India’s Creative Equity grant to make her first narrative short “Home”. Aditi was the recipient of International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA) Bursary for the 2023 INTRO:DOX and she was also a fellow at the Interaction Doc Workshop at Serbia as well as the Earthbound Root.ax Climate Fellowship in 2023. She has been the semi-finalist at the Sundance Episodic Lab 2020 and has pitched her doc projects at various international platforms like Doc Edge NZ, Dhaka Doc Lab, Poland Doc Lab, IDFA and AIDC Cut to the Chase. Aditi is the recipient of the Swiss First Hand Fund for her documentary work .
MOHAMMED WARIS ANSARI is a filmmaker based in Lucknow whose work spans non-fiction, fiction, music videos, and brand films.
He is the founder of Tedhi Puliya Film Commune, a Lucknow-based initiative centred on collective film screenings and conversations, conceived as a space for shared viewing, dialogue, and community engagement with cinema. Through this, he has been involved in curating and collaborating on independent film screenings in the city.
Alongside this, Waris runs Dabloo Studios, a creative studio that moves between commissioned brand work and the development of original fiction and non-fiction projects.
He holds a master’s degree from AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, where his training moved between fiction and non-fiction, shaping the foundations of his current practice.
Meet our Doc-stars
Aryaki
Pune Chapter Head
ARYAKI is a Pune-based cinematographer and director working across documentary and fiction. Trained in cinematography, her practice is rooted in observation, an intuitive relationship with light, and narrative responsibility. A graduate of MIT School of Film & Theatre, her student films have screened at major festivals across the country. Her short documentary Chains and Wheels, which she co-directed and shot, was a grant winner of the Nagari Short Film Competition and premiered at IDSFFK, Kerala in 2025. She has assisted on multiple short and feature films and now works independently on documentaries, fiction, and commissioned projects, while developing a feature-length documentary project, Udgam.