ABOUT SILJA JOHN

Filmmaker & Digital Content Creator

Hailing from a small town in Switzerland, I embarked on the adventure of my life when I moved to Bombay in 2012 to pursue my postgraduate degree in Media Studies & Documentary Film Making.

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In the years that followed, I was able to work with a plethora of incredible communities and organisations from all over - spanning the remote rural and tribal corners of the country, to the most cramped spaces of the urban slums. And in the process, I was able to hone my skills in the fields of documentary film and digital content creation.

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In the past decade, I have been a films and communication consultant for some of the most established NGOs in India, such as Teach For India and CRY (Child Rights & YOU) and I have done freelance projects for many others.

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Now that I am once again uprooting my life to move from Bombay to Berlin, I can't help but feel a newly awakened sense of adventure and curiosity. Because if I have learned one thing from my experience here it is this: where there are people, there are incredible stories waiting to be told.