Indrani Kopal

Indrani Kopal is a documentary filmmaker with a background as a video journalist, television producer, and editor. In 2007 Indrani's first short documentary, She's My Son, won the Justin Louis Award at the 2007 Malaysian's Freedom Film Festival. Indrani received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2012 to pursue an MFA in Documentary Film Studies and Production at Hofstra University in New York. Indrani's 2014 award-winning short student documentary film, The Game Changer, was screened in seventeen film festivals and won three best short documentary awards. Indrani's feature debut documentary, Incarcerated Rhythm, received the Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker at the 2018 Harlem International Film Festival. Indrani Kopal often employs various filmmaking methodologies, such as participatory video and video diaries, that allow her protagonists to engage within their own stories. Indrani founded a production company in Malaysia called Far East Documentary Productions. She directed and edited documentaries Teacher, The Tradition Bearer (2017), and Inclusion Equal to Love (2018) and, in 2016, edited an international co-production, Before The Trees Was Strange. In 2021, Indrani moved to Australia and lives in Sydney with her partner.