About

Sidrah Fatma Ahmed is a journalist and documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience in digital media production, reporting, and impact-driven storytelling. She works across the full production cycle—reporting, shooting, editing, directing, and producing—specializing in documentaries rooted in social and political realities.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, and a Master’s in Convergent Journalism from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. She began her career in 2014 as a Video Journalist and Producer at Hindustan Times, contributing to the newsroom’s transition into a digital-first platform.

Since 2016, she has worked independently as an independent journalist and filmmaker, with work appearing across major global outlets including Financial Times, The New York Times, Bloomberg, CNN, AJ+, and Vox.

Her work includes co-directing the Financial Times documentary Can India Adapt to Extreme Heat?, for which she received the 2023 Pulitzer Center Breakthrough Journalism Award. She was also part of the team on the The New York Times project Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?, which won the 2021 Society for News Design Gold Medal for its use of video, data, and storytelling.

Alongside journalism, she runs The Bay Window Productions, a creative studio that collaborates with non-profits and brands to produce short- and long-form films across multiple platforms.