Nitya Mehrotra

Nitya Mehrotra is a filmmaker, animator, and oral historian based in Chicago. Her work exists at the intersection of animation, documentary, and trauma-informed care, using storytelling to transform personal testimony into public memory. Mehrotra works in large-scale public art rooted in community. In 2024, she led a citywide train-wrap project in Chicago through collaboration with the city's youth, which was featured in the New York Times, Time Out, and CBS. Her short films have been showcased at Shawna Shea and Pune Short Film Festival, among others. She has received three Best Photojournalism awards from the Illinois College Press Association, the Best Cinematographer award at Shawna Shea, the Women in Media Full Scholarship at Met Film School Berlin, and the New Artists Full Scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.