Jasmine Dellal

Jasmine Dellal is a British-born film director and producer.

Jasmine Dellal
Born
Jasmine Dellal

United Kingdom
OccupationFilm director, producer, screenwriter, film editor
Parent(s)Jack Dellal
Websitehttp://www.littledust.com/ Little Dust Productions: The Official Site
Jasmine Dellal's Movie Gypsy Caravan
OriginUK, US, India
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Early life

Jasmine Dellal is an award-winning independent film director and producer. Her feature documentaries show in cinemas, festivals and TV around the world.

Dellal grew up in Great Britain, studied at Oxford, then in the United States and still spends much time in South India where her grandparents lived near Arunachala mountain in Tiruvannamalai. She read Modern Languages at Oxford University (French and Spanish, Balliol College).[1] Dellal met her mentor, the iconic filmmaker Marlon Riggs[2] while doing a Masters at the University of California at Berkeley.

Career

In the 1990s, while based in San Francisco, Dellal founded Little Dust Productions, to make documentaries and artistic films with a social conscience. She has since moved to New York and London. She is particularly recognized for her work with Roma ("Gypsy" people).[3]

Films

Film Awards

References
  1. Little Dust Productions, official staff biographies
  2. Roddick, Nick: "The Gypsy Caravan," The Evening Standard, 23 August 2007 Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Daily Telegraph 28 September 2007 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3668196/Interview-Director-Jasmine-Dellal-on-Gypsy-Caravan-When-the-Road-Bends....html
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