About Eva Anandi

Eva, also known as Anandi, divides her time between British Columbia, Canada, and the Himalayas of India – a divide which reflects in her two names. Wherever she is in the world, Eva is always on the search for stories and creative collaborations.

Filmmaking has taken her around the world where she has documented school children planting mangroves to combat flooding in India, street photography as a form of self-representation in Haiti, youth leadership in Rwanda, First Nations language revitalization in Canada’s North West Territories and Nunavut, and public art installations in Zurich, Switzerland and Austin, Texas. She has lensed feature and short documentaries which have premiered at top tier festivals (“s-yewyaw: Awaken” 2023 Planet in Focus Audience Award Winner, “Make the Shot” VIFF 2023, “Highway to Heaven” TIFF 2019). Her directing work has been picked up by CBC Gem (“Following Folk”, 2023) and premiered at Vancouver’s International Women in Film Festival (“Tayybeh”, 2018) and DOXA (“Cypher”, 2021). She currently lives on Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver, BC, where she works as a freelance cinematographer and documentary director.

Her interest in people, cultures, and languages led her to pursue an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Spanish at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and a graduate degree in Communications from Concordia University in Montreal.

She is interested in the strings that tie us together, and the power of story to effect positive change. Social justice, nature, and creative expression are themes that run through her work.