Meera Darji is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University and Practice based Researcher.

Her independent documentary films have been awarded at international film festivals and recent experimental films have been exhibited at various exhibitions. Transindia: The story of India’s Hijras won the Royal Television Society Award for best factual in the Midlands, best short documentary at the Kashish Mumbai LGBT Festival in India and she was also nominated for the Sky Atlantic Grierson Award. 

Her research focuses on investigating kino eye and cinema verité techniques to present a more inclusive, and therefore, more ‘authentic’ voice in documentary practice. She experiments with ethno-sensory praxis combined with immersive technologies to tell real stories of marginalised communities in India and to explore spaces and places. Meera’s work extends to experimenting with poetic mediums to express feeling, meaning and tone.

Meera is a member of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR) and she is the co-lead for the Film and Digital Image Cluster as well as a member of the South Asian Media Cluster.

Meera is a Senior Lecturer and currently teaches across all levels on the BA Media Production and MA Media Production at Birmingham City University. She is a module leader on various module and has supported the course content development. She also supervises a selection of final major projects. Her expertise are:

• Film production
• Documentary cinema
• Cinematography and Editing
• Immersive and interactive media
• Sensory Practice
• Experimental film