Pooja Sethi

Pooja Sethi is currently a student at Humber College, studying Film and Television Production. They specialize in Writing and Cinematography. Their experiences as a Queer South Asian filmmaker have led them to a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of social marginalization. They want to create works that advocate QTBIPOC stories, facilitate social change and empower marginalized communities. The projects Pooja Sethi has taken on in their craft thus far is a representation of what they've observed of the world around them, as an outsider looking in. For their first film, Pooja wrote and directed Shuddh, a film about the Hindu ritual of showering after witnessing a cremation. Pooja used this ritual from their culture to show a protagonist grieving the loss of their father and processing their burden as a caregiver. In the following year, Pooja wrote and directed There’s No Place Like Home, a documentary that celebrated chosen families within the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Each project is an amalgamation of Pooja’s distinct styles and self-discovery as an emerging filmmaker.