SPARSH AHUJA 

Sparsh Ahuja is an award-winning filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer working primarily in animation and documentary. A FitzRandolph Scholar in PPE from the University of Oxford, his work explores themes of migration, memory, and geopolitical belonging through a humanistic lens. Sparsh’s work has featured in MUBI, The New Yorker, TIME, The BBC, Al Jazeera, NOWNESS ASIA, NOEMA and The Economist.  

Sparsh is the founder of Project Dastaan, a digital humanities initiative reconnecting survivors of the 1947 Partition with their ancestral homes. His documentary short Birdsong premiered at SXSW 2023, was shortlisted for the Grierson, IDA and BIFA Awards, and was acquired by The Guardian as a Vimeo Staff Pick. His VR film Child of Empire - financed through the Venice Biennale Gap Financing Market - premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2022, played Sheffield DocFest, and MIFF, and won the inaugural XR History Award from the Korber-Stiftung Foundation in Hamburg. 

In 2023, Sparsh was one of the 12 factual producers selected for VicScreen and Screen Australia’s Originate Factual incubator. In 2024, his reporting on Indigenous land rights disputes was a finalist for the LA Press Club Award.

Sparsh’s work has toured institutions such as The Smithsonian, the Asian Arts Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, BFI Southbank, and ForumDesImages in Paris, and has been supported by the British Council, Australia Council for the Arts, Doc Society, Ford Foundation, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, and the CatchLight Fellowship amongst others. 

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Sparsh Ahuja is an award-winning filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer working primarily in animation and documentary. A FitzRandolph Scholar in PPE from the University of Oxford, his work explores themes of migration, memory, and geopolitical belonging through a humanistic lens. Sparsh’s work has featured in MUBI, The New Yorker, TIME, The BBC, Al Jazeera, NOWNESS ASIA, NOEMA and The Economist.  

Sparsh is the founder of Project Dastaan, a digital humanities initiative reconnecting survivors of the 1947 Partition with their ancestral homes. His documentary short Birdsong premiered at SXSW 2023, was shortlisted for the Grierson, IDA and BIFA Awards, and was acquired by The Guardian as a Vimeo Staff Pick. His VR film Child of Empire - financed through the Venice Biennale Gap Financing Market - premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2022, played Sheffield DocFest, and MIFF, and won the inaugural XR History Award from the Korber-Stiftung Foundation in Hamburg. 

In 2023, Sparsh was one of the 12 factual producers selected for VicScreen and Screen Australia’s Originate Factual incubator. In 2024, his reporting on Indigenous land rights disputes was a finalist for the LA Press Club Award.

Sparsh’s work has toured institutions such as The Smithsonian, the Asian Arts Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, BFI Southbank, and ForumDesImages in Paris, and has been supported by the British Council, Australia Council for the Arts, Doc Society, Ford Foundation, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, and the CatchLight Fellowship amongst others.


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sparshahuja9@gmail.com