Shuchi Kothari
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Shuchi Kothari is a New Zealand-Indian filmmaker and academic. Her writer and producer credits include features (Firaaq, Apron Strings) and shorts (Shit One Carries, Coffee & Allah, Fleeting Beauty) that have screened at over 100 international film festivals including Venice, Cannes, Toronto, BFI, Busan, and Telluride. She is also one of the creators, producers, and writers of the series A Thousand Apologies, New Zealand's first ever Asian prime time show on broadcast television.
She recently completed an hour-long documentary Threads: Sustaining India's Textile Traditions. Shuchi has mentored several acclaimed filmmakers/projects and served on juries of Film and Television awards, and national funding bodies.
In 2018 Shuchi co-founded the not-for-profit Pan-Asian Screen Collective to advocate for equitable representation of Asian screen practitioners on and behind the screens in Aotearoa New Zealand.
She recently completed an hour-long documentary Threads: Sustaining India's Textile Traditions. Shuchi has mentored several acclaimed filmmakers/projects and served on juries of Film and Television awards, and national funding bodies.
In 2018 Shuchi co-founded the not-for-profit Pan-Asian Screen Collective to advocate for equitable representation of Asian screen practitioners on and behind the screens in Aotearoa New Zealand.