Anjali Nayar
Director, Writer
Anjali Nayar is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, multimedia storyteller and technologist. Nayar's feature directorial debut, Gun Runners, premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in May 2016. The film follows two Kenyan warriors who trade in their AK-47s to pursue marathon running. Nayar is currently directing Logs of War (in post-production), a cross-platform documentary about activists using smartphones to expose land grabbing and corruption in West Africa. Nayar is also directing Just A Band, a fractionally fictional documentary about an Afro-electric pop group that wants to go to space. Beyond film, Nayar has written and filmed extensively for Nature, Reuters, the CBC News, the BBC, and NPR. Nayar has a Masters in Documentary from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a Masters in Environmental Management from the University of Oxford, and a Graduate degree in space science from the International Space University. Nayar founded TIMBY (This Is My Backyard), a suite of digital tools that helps activists report, verify and tell stories safely.
Anjali Nayar is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, multimedia storyteller and technologist.
Nayar's feature directorial debut, Gun Runners, premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in May 2016. The film follows two Kenyan warriors who trade in their AK-47s to pursue marathon running. Nayar is currently directing Logs of War (in post-production), a cross-platform documentary about activists using smartphones to expose land grabbing and corruption in West Africa. Nayar is also directing Just A Band, a fractionally fictional documentary about an Afro-electric pop group that wants to go to space.
Beyond film, Nayar has written and filmed extensively for Nature, Reuters, the CBC News, the BBC, and NPR. Nayar has a Masters in Documentary from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a Masters in Environmental Management from the University of Oxford, and a Graduate degree in space science from the International Space University. Nayar founded TIMBY (This Is My Backyard), a suite of digital tools that helps activists report, verify and tell stories safely.