One-time advertising writer, Vani Subramanian has been a feminist activist and documentary filmmaker since the nineties.

Her work as a filmmaker explores the connections between our everyday practices, perceptions and prejudices, and the larger political questions confronting us through the lens of everyday practices, perceptions and prejudices – be it about gender and space,  sex selective abortions, sectarian intolerance, education,  food practices, cinema spectatorship and culture, neighbourhood histories and memory, or justice and the death penalty.

Vani's films have been screened and received awards, both nationally and internationally. Over the years, she has extended her practice to video art in performance, mixed media installations and pop-up digital art shows.

Vani has been visiting/guest faculty at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, College of Arts, Architecture & Planning & the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance, Cornell University, NY, as well as Sushant School of Architecture, Gurgaon and Mahatma Gandhi Hindi University, Wardha.

She is the Creative Director of reFrame Institute of Art and Expression, an initiative that produces, mentors and disseminates artistic efforts that respond to contemporary challenges.