The topic of my Fellowship was women's songs in India. I documented the songs that women sing as they journey through life in India. I trained as a documentary film-maker at the National Film And Television School and I was interested in trying to create the narrative of a journey through the songs. I filmed in Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Mumbai. I recorded women singing as they harvested crops in the fields, put their children to sleep, and worked on construction sites. They sang about their difficult lives as prostitutes in Mumbai and about being possessed by a pre-Hindu goddess. They sang about happiness and loss. And sometimes they danced.

I embarked on this Fellowship as a way to explore the fascinating culture I come from and explore the role of women within it. A lot of the singing traditions have since died out and I'm incredibly glad I got to do this. Since my Fellowship I was nominated for a Children's BAFTA for a film I made about child labour in India. My last film was for CBBC in 2018. I currently earn my living in a secondary school teaching English to foreign students and work on short projects in my spare time.