Natasha Subramaniam is an internationally recognized multimedia artist, filmmaker, and creative director. Her latest projects explore the natural world, telling stories that magnify the perspectives of plants, animals, and living ecosystems as protagonists in themselves. Her work observes our growing, polarizing sense of alienation but also wonder and instinctual draw to the wild.
She has been globally recognized for her films which examine the beauty, culture and possibilities of food in relationship to the individual, society, and nature. She has joined forces with renowned chefs, scientists, farmers, and agronomists to contemplate and research the nuances of food and flavor with projects that inspire an internal awareness about our customs of eating through striking imagery and unconventional, lyrical storytelling.
Natasha's award-winning work has been featured in outlets including the New York Times, LA Weekly, Gothamist, Wall Street Journal, IndieWire, The Huffington Post, and NOWNESS and has screened worldwide in festivals and arts spaces including Telluride Film Festival, AFI Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, American Cinematheque Annual Focus on Female Directors, Park Avenue Armory Center for the Arts, Santa Fe Museum of Art, The Philip Johnson Glass House, and others. She has had mid-career retrospectives at the Athens International Culinary Film Festival and Barcelona Film & Cook Film Festival. Natasha is a grant winner from Women in Film & Netflix. Natasha also writes critically and has published cinema analysis in journals including Senses of Cinema and The Huffington Post.
Natasha co-founded the multimedia studio Chayka Sofia. She holds an MFA in Film & Video from California Institute of the Arts and lives between Los Angeles and Rome.