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Mandrika Rupa
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Gujarat, India
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| Known for | Filmmaker |
Mandrika Rupa is an Indian- New Zealand filmmaker and community worker.[1] She is a member of The Kshetra Collective, a diverse group of artists in New Zealand of Indian heritage.[2]
Rupa was born in Gujarat, India and moved to New Zealand in 1960.[1] Rupa's grandfather, Jaga Rupa, emigrated to New Zealand in 1907 just after immigration restrictions targeted at Chinese and Indians were lifted.[3] Jaga Rupa settled in the Waikato and became a hawker.[3][1] Rupa has six siblings who were all born in New Zealand and one born in India.[3] In 1981 Rupa's daughter Mandy Rupa-Reid was born.
Between 1986 and1988 Rupa gained a qualification in social work.[4]
In 1993 Rupa founded Nari Shakti, a platform for Indian women to empower one another, their communities and promote economic independence.[4][5]
A trip to India in 1993 prompted Rupa's journey into filmmaking.[4] Much of Rupa's film work explores the social implications of immigrant communities, the experiences of the South Asian diaspora and giving visibility to underrepresented voices.[1]
| Film | Year | Role | Description | Language |
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| Against Her Will | 2007 | Pre-production | Documentary about domestic violence in the West | |
| Inheritance/ A lament | 2006 | Te reo Māori, Punjabi, English subtitles | ||
| Hidden Apartheid | 2005 | Director & Producer | Documentary on the caste system in India and discrimination in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and New Zealand.[6] | |
| Taamara/Sangam (The Joining of Two Peoples) | 2004 | Director & Writer | Accounts from Māori of the story of a group of Indian men settled in Te Uku in the early 1900s.[7] | Te reo Māori, Hindi |
| Laxmi | 1998 | Director & Writer | Life in colonial New Zealand through an Indian diasporic lens.[8] | English |
| Naya Zamana | 1996 | Director & Producer | A documentary about queer experiences in a family of South Pacific Indian heritage.[9] | Hindi |
| Poonam | 1994 | Director & Writer | Documentary about three Indian women who migrated with their families to New Zealand around the 1890s.[10] | |
| I'm Not Here | 1994 | Director | English |
Rupa's short film Poonam (1994) is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[3]
