Shweta Kishore

Shweta Kishore lectures in Screen and Media at RMIT University. She is the author of 'Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers: Independence in Practice' (2018, Edinburgh University Press) and has co-edited 'Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice' (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Shweta's research on Indian documentary, documentary ethics, feminist film, and activist film festivals has appeared in Third Text, Bioscope, Camera Obscura, Feminist Media Studies, Studies in Documentary Film and Senses of Cinema.

She is a documentary practitioner and in 2024 co-curated 'To See is To Change', an exhibition of video and installation works by Mumbai based CAMP for Photo 2024. In 2019, Shweta curated 'Artist Cinema: Moving image and film from Vietnam' at the Kochi Muziris Biennale, India, and 'Moving Reels: Vietnam Looks At South Asia' at The Factory Contemporary Art Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 

Shweta teaches Cinema Studies in the Bachelor of Communication (Media) and supervises PhD projects on documentary film theory and practice; film and history; screen cultures; and popular culture in South Asia. She is an advisory board member of the journal Studies in Documentary Film. She is currently leading a research project investigating the intersection between AI technology, reality and ethics in documentary.

Professional experience:

-2026 Kishore, S. "Media Collectives as Documentary Infrastructure in India" Critical Collective

-2025 Kishore, S. "How Real is Real? AI and Documentary Reality" Mumbrella

-2024 Curator, "To See is To Change" CAMP in Melbourne. Photo 2024 and RMIT Culture

-2024 Kishore, S. "A Tripod Made of Stone: Interview with CAMP’s Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran" ASAP Art
- 2022 Moderator, "Dalit voices and representation in Writing with Fire" (documentary, 2022) Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, Melbourne;    Castlemaine Documentary Festival, Victoria
- 2019 Curator, "Vietnamese experimental artist cinema" Kochi Biennale, India
- 2018 Curator, "Moving Reels" South Asian Film Screening interactive discussion forum at The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Vietnam
- 2016 Feature film programmer, Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
- 2014 Curator and public presentation, "Screening Modernity, Westminster University, London
- 2014 Kishore, S., "Transcending Testimony: An interview with filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj" The Conversation
- 2014 Kishore, S., "Death begets life in Rajesh Jala's Children of the Pyre" The Conversation
- 2014 Strand concept and curator, "India in Flux: Living Resistance", Melbourne International Film Festival, Organised in association with Faculty of Arts, Monash University
- 2013 Masterclass, "Production Design in Cinema", Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival, Malaysia