Alongside dance, Antara has had a prolific career as a filmmaker. After completing her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley, Antara went on to study filmmaking at the New York Film Academy, where she specialized in directing. She worked as an assistant director to acclaimed filmmaker, Jagmohan Mundhra, and assisted him on several films, including the critically acclaimed Aishwarya Rai starrer Provoked (Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Robbie Coltrane, Miranda Richardson, Nandita Das). At the age of 25, she directed her own feature film, a British suspense-thriller titled Telling Lies, starring Spice-Girls Melanie Brown, and Jason Flemyng (Curious Case of Benjamin Button). Since then, Antara shifted gears from direction, and was producer on Jagmohan Mundhra’s Shoot On Sight (Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri), a British thriller highlighting Islamaphobia in England.

In 2009, Antara established her own production company, Hindipendent Films, where she brought her worlds of dance and film in a documentary film produced in partnership with  the Center for Asian American Media, titled Upaj: Improvise. Produced by Antara, directed by Hoku Uchiyama, the film follows the unique collaboration of the late Kathak maestro Pandit Chitresh Das and Tap Star Jason Samuels Smith through their tour of India. Winner of Best Documentary at the Dance Camera West Film Festival (2014), the film screened at festivals throughout the world, including the Mill Valley Film Festival, Mumbai International Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival (U.K.) and Byron Bay Film Festival (Australia), was broadcast nationally in the U.S. on PBS World in 2014, and is now available to stream on Amazon. 

Antara continues to produce short dance films, a medium that is perhaps her favorite of visual storytelling.

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