ANULA SHETTY

Anula Shetty is an award-winning filmmaker and new media artist. She is a recipient of a Pew Fellowship and a Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at SEPTA and led Philly Daydreams as part of Public Works, a program of Forman Arts Initiative and Mural Arts. In 2024, she was awarded an NEA grant to create Echoes from the Conch Shell, an AR/VR project with the Reichhold Art Center in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

She has also received a Project Involve Fellowship, two Independence Foundation Fellowships, and a Leeway Foundation Transformation Award for her art and social change work. Anula received her MFA in Film & Media Arts from Temple University and serves on the board of the Alliance for Media Arts and Culture. She is a member of A-Doc, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and Bitchitra Collective, and is co-director of the artist-run video collective Termite TV.

Her work has been screened at festivals and museums including MoMA, The Flaherty Film Seminar, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Pacific Film Archive. Current projects include Places of Power, an immersive VR documentary about people and places of belonging and power in North Philadelphia, and Cosmic Egg, a poetic documentary set against the surreal landscape of egg harvesting, transnational surrogacy, and the desire for procreation.