Anula Shetty is a Philadelphia based independent filmmaker. A native of Bombay, India, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Film & Media Arts from Temple University. She is a producer and co-director of Termite TV Collective, a group of video artists who produce experimental and activist media. Her work has been broadcast on PBS and screened at festivals and museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art & the Museum of Television and Radio, NY. Her work includes the documentary "Kamaka‚eha, Aching Eye" (Grand Prize, U.S. Super8 Film Fest) and the short fiction film "Paddana, Song of the Ancestors" (Best First Film, Bombay International Film Festival).

Anula is a recipient of two Media Arts Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She was a Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video Fellowship nominee for 2000 and 2001. She is a two time recipient of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Artist-in-Communities Grant. As part of this grant, she conducted two month youth filmmaking workshops at the Reichhold Art Center in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She has taught film and video production at Temple University, the University of the Arts, Asian Arts Initiative and Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia and the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Calcutta, India.

Anula is also a co-founder of the performance group "Asians Misbehavin" and has performed at the New York and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals as well as in PSNBC's industry showcase at the HERE theater in New York.

At present, Anula serves on the board of the Philadelphia Independent Film & Video association & the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation. She was recently awarded an Independence Foundation Fellowship to work on her upcoming project - "Junk Mail", a narrative film about a young immigrant Indian woman's experiences in the United States.

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