She spent exciting years of run-and-gun filmmaking that made her see the world in a whole new way.
Apart from video and photography work, Urmila scripts and directs Virtual Reality projects. Her VR screenplay Women won the main award at the 2019 edition of the Paris SATIS 360 Film Festival.
Urmila also works on experimental video forms. She draws inspiration from nature, science and spirituality. Her latest experimental video Mother has been screened at the La Jeunesse fête son Cinéma festival in Montauban, France.
She is of Indian and Polish heritage and is fluent in Polish, French, English and Hindi. She has lived in Cracow, Paris, New Delhi and Vancouver, and currently splits her time between India and Canada.
Urmila began working for international media organisations as a video journalist in 2011. The fast-paced world of news showed her the power of visuals in conveying emotions and narratives. With a Master’s in Geopolitics, she moved into the development sector, collaborating with the United Nations, international aid organisations and local NGOs, for which she has worked in Asia, Central America, Africa and Europe. There, she produced, scripted, shot and edited documentary-style videos, as well as taking still photographs, and helped bring social and humanitarian issues closer to audiences around the world.
