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Name
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Ankita Mukhopadhyay Kumar
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Profile
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Ankita Mukhopadhyay Kumar is an award-winning Indian journalist and documentary filmmaker based in the United States. Her directorial debut, Far from Home, is the first documentary on Afghan refugees in India and was selected to more than eight international film festivals, including the Academy Award–qualifying Tasveer Film Festival and the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival. The film was funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, was a finalist for NHK’s Japan Prize, and runner-up for Best Short Documentary at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival.
As a journalist, Kumar has received the Professional Excellence Award from the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States and the Presidents Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. She has held reporting fellowships from National Geographic and the Pulitzer Center and has published internationally, including work with Deutsche Welle and The Economist Group. She currently serves as a regional director at the Society of Professional Journalists.
Kumar holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School and a Master’s degree in History and International Relations from the London School of Economics, where her dissertation received distinction. Her reporting and filmmaking center on refugees, displacement, labor, and marginalized communities.
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Position
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Investigative Journalist
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Documentary Filmmaker
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Founder, Akiray Pictures
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Subject
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Refugees
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Immigration
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Afghan diaspora
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Displacement
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Human rights
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Conflict and war
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Marginalized communities
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Investigative journalism
