Koval Bhatia

I am a writer, director and producer from Goa, India. I have worked on film and multimedia across genres over the past 14 years.

After an undergraduate degree in Economics from SRCC (Delhi University) and a Master’s in Mass Comm from AJKMCRC Jamia, I founded A Little Anarky Films, one of Delhi’s leading production and content studios. Over the years, as head of Anarky, I hired and worked with over a 100 brilliant creative team members. I ran a performing arts venue and community space called BedlamDelhi from 2016-2020. I am the co-founder of Open Door Docs, an organisation for women in Indian Documentary Film. I have served as a Chair of Jury, mentor and grant reviewer at several film funds and organisations.

My projects have received grants and prizes from Sundance Institute, IDFA, HotDocs Canada, SFFILM, Catapult Film Fund, DOK Leipzig and Al Jazeera.  I have pitched at Sheffield MeetMarket, Hot Docs Forum, DokLeipzig, Docs By The Sea and Visions Du Reel with my various films. I received The Whickers TV and Film Development Award 2025 for my debut feature as a director.

I am currently the Program Co-Director of SSP Asia at Video Consortium, where I manage a fellowship and oversee the production of character-driven short documentaries in collaboration with global nonprofits.

FILMOGRAPHY

Somewhere Over The Rainbow (director)

Documentary | Feature | India, USA, France | 2026

In Late Development

Selections/Awards: The Whickers Development Award, Circle Women's Doc Accelerator (Greece, Serbia, Italy), B3 Hessenlab (Germany), Asiadoc Lab

Rehearsal For A Funeral (producer)

Narrative Film | Feature | India, USA | 2026

In Post Production 

Selections/Awards: NFDC FilmBazaar, Asian Producer's Network at SGIFF 2024, Finalist at Creative Capital Awards

Seeds of A Nation (consulting producer)

Documentary I Feature I South Korea, USA, South Sudan, Kenya I 2025

Selections: IDFA Forum, DMZ Docs

Against The Tide (producer)

Documentary | Feature| India, France | 2023

Awards: Special Jury Award for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2023, Best Documentary Feature at Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Golden Gateway Award at MAMI 2023, Grand Jury Prize, Seattle IFF

She Run The World (director/producer)

Documentary | Short| India, Canada | 2023

Premieres: DCEFF'23 and Hot Docs Festival 2023, Canada.

FELLOWSHIPS:

Asian Producer's Network, Singapore International Film Festival 2024

Circle Doc Accelerator 2024

Graduated from Eurodoc 2021, an international lab for documentary producers. 

Bursary Recipient at the World Congress for Science and Factual Producers ‘21 

Getting Real Fellowship 2022-23 from International Documentary Association 

HotDocs Accelerator Lab Fellow (2021)

AFFILIATIONS

Brown Girl Doc Mafia

Film Fatales

Asia Pacific Screen Academy

Open Door Docs India