Amun Chaudhary is a cultural researcher, writer, and creative practitioner working at the intersection of culture, art, movement, and film, with a focus on engaging public audiences and shaping narratives. Her work combines field-based research, visual storytelling, and archival research to inform critical understandings of themes of gender, political subject-making, art, and lived experience as evidence for sociocultural development.

She has worked with the Pakistani Academy Selection Committee, Tasveer Film Festival, and Dazed MENA, and in 2024 served as the lead coordinator for Pakistan’s inauguration at the Cannes Film Festival, platforming independent projects to wider audiences. Her writing has been published in cultural magazines and journals, including Dominasian magazine, Daak vaak, Dazed MEN,A and the Undergraduate Journal for Global Citizenship. 

Most recently, Amun is assistant-directing and producing “Hanging By a Wire,” a documentary feature set in northern Pakistan, telling a thrilling story about community, infrastructure, and hope in one of the most isolated regions in the world. She also serves as an editorial assistant at Dazed Magazine (MENA). Amun additionally contributed immensely to the success of the 2025 Tasveer Film Market, Festival, and Producer’s Lab - a one-of-a-kind South Asian platform for filmmakers and artists from the South Asian diaspora and minority backgrounds within this group. 

Amun holds a summa cum laude degree in Anthropology and Political Science from Middlebury College and is an alumna of the Middlebury-CMRS Oxford Humanities program and the UNH Summer Institute for Public Humanities. Fluent in English, Urdu, and Hindi, Amun is a trained Kathak dancer completing her training at the Visharad level.