Shai Heredia is a filmmaker and curator. In 2003 she founded
Experimenta, the international festival for experimental film and
moving image art in India. Over the years the festival has gained
international prominence as an influential platform for experimental
film and video. Heredia has curated film programs worldwide, including
the Berlin International Film Festival, Tate Modern, Images Festival
Toronto, Image Forum Tokyo, The Kitchen New York, Arkipel Jakarta
amongst several other festivals and art venues. She was also the
programmer of the 65th Robert Flaherty Seminar.

Heredia’s films ‘I Am Micro’ (2012) and ‘An Old Dog’s Diary’ (2015)
co-directed with Shumona Goel have received critical acclaim and been
exhibited at prestigious film festivals and art venues like the
Guggenheim Museum, Toronto International film festival, International
Film Festival Rotterdam, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary
Art, and the Kochi Muziris Biennale amongst several others worldwide.
‘I Am Micro’ is an experimental essay about filmmaking, the medium of
film, and the spirit of making independent cinema. The film was shot
in the passages of an abandoned optics factory and is centered around
the activities of a low-budget film crew. I’ Am Micro’ has also won
prestigious awards including a National Award from the Government of
India. ‘An Old Dog’s Diary’ assembled in puzzle-piece evocations, is a
portrait of an artist. The film links fragments of his writings,
letters and drawings that are charged with memories of an unsettled
life. ‘An Old Dog’s Diary’ won the BFI London International Film
Festival Short Film award.

Heredia has contributed to journals such as The Moving Image Review
and Art Journal and PUBLIC, and was the co- editor with Oliver Husain of the ‘Loud Mess’
issue of NANG magazine. Her latest book “One Film at a Time”,
published by Arsenal Institut for Film and Video Art, explores the
many and distinct processes and skills involved in keeping films alive
through practices of transnational archiving, curating and
restoration. Heredia is currently the co-curator of Berlinale Forum
Expanded. She is based in Bangalore, India where she teaches Experimental Film and Contemporary Art Practice at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology.