Aneri Shah is a darkly comedic writer, actor, podcaster, and filmmaker. She has created a comedy pilot, self-published a zine of personal essays, and directed a feature documentary featuring 6 South Asian and Black women emergency medical doctors throughout the. pandemic. Prior, she spent a decade building a short-form video advertising platform used by hundreds of global brands and creating products at high-growth creative technology companies like Shutterstock.
Expected to serve at home with my big multi-generational family and then treated as “too nice” in the world and workplace and then denied my access to raw desire and femininity 24/7, being a South Asian woman has been this maddening, painful, beautifully contradictory experience for me, and I imagine so many women like me. I am exploring that nuance on the big screen.