Shirin Bhandari is an independent writer, photographer, and documentary filmmaker. based in Manila, Philippines. Her work has been featured in Roads and Kingdoms, Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, Pulitzer Center, SCMP, Women’s Media Center, Slate, CNN, and VICE. Shirin is a Logan Nonfiction Fellow for the Carey Institute of Global Good and a member of Woman Photograph.
She has produced documentaries for International Media Support (IMS), UNICEF, European Union Humanitarian Aid, USAID, UNDSS, Save the Children, Action Against Hunger, and CARE. Shirin’s stories have touched on important topics on conflict, displacement, climate change, typhoon recovery, malnutrition, HIV, and LGBT/gender-based issues.
Her first feature-length documentary film, “People of the Lake” is a finalist of the IF/Then development lab of the Tribeca Film Institute NYC. It completed a development lab with Asia Doc and the Logan Non-Fiction Program. The film won a production grant from the Film Development Council of the Philippines and is set to be completed in 2024.
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