Nakul Singh Sawnhey

Nakul Singh Sawhney is the founder of ChalChitra Abhiyaan (CCA), a people’s film and media collective in rural North India led by marginalized communities and powered by grassroots voices.

CCA has cultivated a network of storytellers, reporters, and media makers from among the youth, farmers, and women of Dalit and religious minority communities. Trained by leading journalists and filmmakers, they tell their own stories through video, which are screened in 20 villages and shared with an audience of 67,000 subscribers on social media. Over the past seven years, CCA’s diverse and representative narratives have begun to counter the singular perspectives often found in local media.

Beyond filmmaking, CCA builds public libraries and organizes film screenings on social and political issues across multiple villages and towns. Nakul’s long-term vision is to galvanize community-led film and cultural collectives that strengthen local voices and plural narratives.