Nandita is the co-founder of independent film production company Apparat, which she set up in 2009 with director Dain Iskandar Said. Having produced several award-winning Malaysian fiction and documentary films, Nandita draws inspiration from Southeast Asia’s rich heritage and histories, with an aim to shape distinctive stories and unique characters and create films that bridge the local and the global. Her first feature, Bunohan (2011), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, swept 8 awards at the Malaysian Film Festival 2013 including Best Film, and is distributed internationally as Bunohan: Return to Murder. Her second, Interchange (2016), premiered at the Piazza Grande of Locarno and was the first Malaysian film to air on HBO across Asia. Nandita received an Msc. in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London, and a BA. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia, USA.