About
Dr David Jobanputra is an anthropologist and filmmaker specialising in human rights, international development and environmental ethics. His work bridges the gap between academia, development policy and documentary. His previous work includes ethnographic films on collective action in Chhattisgarh (University of Exeter) and economic abuse in Bihar (Sheffield Hallam University), as well as numerous academic documentaries for the University of East Anglia. Before that, he worked as a specialist current-affairs editor for LBC radio, producing short documentaries on, among other things, assisted suicide, people smuggling and gun crime in the US. He is currently working on a feature-length ethnographic documentary about the cosmology of the Urarina tribe in the Peruvian Amazon (London School of Economics), alongside his role as a Film Producer at WaterAid, an international non-governmental organisation focused on water, sanitation and hygiene.
