Deepa Nair's work spans across documentary film, video, dance and text. Her video work explores the relationship between body, memory, movement, and affect. She is especially interested in ritualistic and ethnic dance and theatrical forms as sites of sacred connectivity and heightened affect.

Her experimental screen dance work, Navarasa, the Awakening, was part of International Video Exhibit at Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland in 2020. Her short dance documentary, The Nangiarkoothu Artist (2022) was the official selection at multiple film festivals in US and Canada.

​Deepa holds an MPhil in English Literature from the University of Delhi, India and an MA in Cinema Studies from San Francisco State University. She was an Associate Professor of English Literature in New Delhi, India.She currently teaches Film Studies and Documentary Film Production at Chabot College.

Deepa is a member of Brown Girl Doc Mafia, BIPOC Doc Editors, A-Doc and Bichitra Collective . ​She is also a dance practitioner, trained in the classical Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam.

ACTIVE PROJECTS

UnHome, an experimental screen dance film on home and the immigrant  identity.

Stage- Post Production

Funding status- Self funded and looking for support in grant and funds for production and support in distribution, particularly in video art gallery submissions

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From Civil Rights to Crunch Cakes

​A short creative profile documentary on a beloved bakery run by 85 year Claire Mack, San Mateo's first African American woman to hold the position of mayor for three terms.

Stage- In Production

Supported by The For Us, By Us Filmmaker Incubator , Filmmakers Collaborative SF,2025.

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