Biography

Dhruv Dhawan is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, born in Bombay and now living between Dubai & Vancouver.

He studied cultural anthropology at Duke University and later went on to become a documentary filmmaker. His work is distributed internationally and has been nominated for awards at Tribeca and Hot Docs.

His first feature film, From Dust, was recognized by the United Nations for its relevance to human rights and issues of governance in the wake of natural disasters.