Insia Dariwala is an award-winning international filmmaker/child rights activist, TEDx speaker, and a Creative Campaign Strategist who effectively uses her expertise as a writer/director to highlight social evils like Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), and Female Genital Cutting (FGC) through the medium of visual arts and cinema.

She has successfully executed several community projects engaging the creative medium in an attempt to mainstream such issues through art installations, poetry, live storytelling, Photography, puppetry animation, fiction, and non-fiction films, which have reached and engaged thousands of people across India and abroad. Her unique campaigns have been instrumental in amending victim compensation laws for male children, and engaging powerful influencers to raise their voices against child rights issues in India. In a career spanning more than a decade, Insia works as a freelance creative for Television and Films and has also led successful creative campaigns for international organisations like Hollywood Health and Society, LA, and Global Health Strategy, New York.

She is the recipient of the Shoorveer Award, the prestigious ‘Women have Wings’ courage award, U.S.A, and the ‘We the Women’, H.E.R award, in India, hosted by U.N Women. Insia is also featured as one of the 100 most inspiring women of India, in a book called ‘The Phenomenal She’, and has been featured by BBC World on their series, 'My Indian Life’, with Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin. Besides her creative endeavours, Insia is also known for her ability to connect with large audiences, and her talks are featured at many conferences in India, and internationally.

Contact Insia at insia@sahiyo.org. 

Insia Dariwala is an award-winning international filmmaker/child rights activist, TEDx speaker, and a Creative Campaign Strategist who effectively uses her expertise as a writer/director to highlight social evils like Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), and Female Genital Cutting (FGC) through the medium of visual arts and cinema.

She has successfully executed several community projects engaging the creative medium in an attempt to mainstream such issues through art installations, poetry, live storytelling, Photography, puppetry animation, fiction, and non-fiction films, which have reached and engaged thousands of people across India and abroad. Her unique campaigns have been instrumental in amending victim compensation laws for male children, and engaging powerful influencers to raise their voices against child rights issues in India. In a career spanning more than a decade, Insia works as a freelance creative for Television and Films and has also led successful creative campaigns for international organisations like Hollywood Health and Society, LA, and Global Health Strategy, New York.

She is the recipient of the Shoorveer Award, the prestigious ‘Women have Wings’ courage award, U.S.A, and the ‘We the Women’, H.E.R award, in India, hosted by U.N Women. Insia is also featured as one of the 100 most inspiring women of India, in a book called ‘The Phenomenal She’, and has been featured by BBC World on their series, 'My Indian Life’, with Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin. Besides her creative endeavours, Insia is also known for her ability to connect with large audiences, and her talks are featured at many conferences in India, and internationally.

Contact Insia at insia@sahiyo.org. 

Insia Dariwala is an award-winning international filmmaker/child rights activist, TEDx speaker, and a Creative Campaign Strategist who effectively uses her expertise as a writer/director to highlight social evils like Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), and Female Genital Cutting (FGC) through the medium of visual arts and cinema.

She has successfully executed several community projects engaging the creative medium in an attempt to mainstream such issues through art installations, poetry, live storytelling, Photography, puppetry animation, fiction, and non-fiction films, which have reached and engaged thousands of people across India and abroad. Her unique campaigns have been instrumental in amending victim compensation laws for male children, and engaging powerful influencers to raise their voices against child rights issues in India. In a career spanning more than a decade, Insia works as a freelance creative for Television and Films and has also led successful creative campaigns for international organisations like Hollywood Health and Society, LA, and Global Health Strategy, New York.

She is the recipient of the Shoorveer Award, the prestigious ‘Women have Wings’ courage award, U.S.A, and the ‘We the Women’, H.E.R award, in India, hosted by U.N Women. Insia is also featured as one of the 100 most inspiring women of India, in a book called ‘The Phenomenal She’, and has been featured by BBC World on their series, 'My Indian Life’, with Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin. Besides her creative endeavours, Insia is also known for her ability to connect with large audiences, and her talks are featured at many conferences in India, and internationally.

Contact Insia at insia@sahiyo.org. 

Insia Dariwala is an award-winning international filmmaker/child rights activist, TEDx speaker, and a Creative Campaign Strategist who effectively uses her expertise as a writer/director to highlight social evils like Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), and Female Genital Cutting (FGC) through the medium of visual arts and cinema.

She has successfully executed several community projects engaging the creative medium in an attempt to mainstream such issues through art installations, poetry, live storytelling, Photography, puppetry animation, fiction, and non-fiction films, which have reached and engaged thousands of people across India and abroad. Her unique campaigns have been instrumental in amending victim compensation laws for male children, and engaging powerful influencers to raise their voices against child rights issues in India. In a career spanning more than a decade, Insia works as a freelance creative for Television and Films and has also led successful creative campaigns for international organisations like Hollywood Health and Society, LA, and Global Health Strategy, New York.

She is the recipient of the Shoorveer Award, the prestigious ‘Women have Wings’ courage award, U.S.A, and the ‘We the Women’, H.E.R award, in India, hosted by U.N Women. Insia is also featured as one of the 100 most inspiring women of India, in a book called ‘The Phenomenal She’, and has been featured by BBC World on their series, 'My Indian Life’, with Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin. Besides her creative endeavours, Insia is also known for her ability to connect with large audiences, and her talks are featured at many conferences in India, and internationally.

Contact Insia at insia@sahiyo.org.