Tarini Manchanda is interested in peoples' movements, ecology and likes telling stories through film. Born and raised in New Delhi, India, she attended United World College in Pune, attended IHP's Rethinking Globalisation Program and graduated with a major in Environmental Policy from Colby College, Maine, USA. Her first film was “Narmada Rising” in January 2007, a documentary about a peoples’ movement against dam projects in India’s Narmada Valley. Since then she has worked on several short documentary films.