About
Amun Chaudhary is a cultural researcher, writer, and creative practitioner working at the intersection of culture, art, movement, and film. Her work bridges field-based research, visual storytelling, and archival inquiry to explore questions of gender, political subject-making, materiality, and lived experience, with a sustained commitment to engaging public audiences.
She has worked with the Pakistani Academy Selection Committee, Tasveer Film Festival, and Dazed MENA, and in 2024 served as lead coordinator for Pakistan’s inauguration at the Cannes Film Festival, supporting the presentation of independent projects to international audiences. Her writing has appeared in cultural magazines and journals including Dazed MENA, Daak Vaak, Dominasian, and the Undergraduate Journal for Global Citizenship.
Most recently, Amun has worked in production and development on Hanging by a Wire, a documentary feature set in northern Pakistan examining infrastructure, community, and resilience in a remote mountainous region. She has also collaborated editorially with Dazed MENA and contributed to the planning and execution of the 2025 Tasveer Film Market and inaugural Producer’s Lab, supporting South Asian filmmakers and diasporic voices.
Amun graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury College with a degree in Anthropology and Political Science. She is an alumna of the Middlebury–CMRS Oxford Humanities Program and the UNH Summer Institute for Public Humanities. Fluent in English, Urdu, and Hindi, she is a trained Kathak dancer completing her training at the Visharad level.
