Anjali Nayar

Anjali Nayar is a Canadian-Indian filmmaker, former climate scientist, and founder of the TIMBY suite of environmental and human rights reporting tools.

Nayar’s most recent feature film about gut health and the microbiome, ''Hack Your Health'', premiered on Netflix as an original in April 2024, and quickly rose to be a top 10 Netflix film in 77 countries around the world.

Her other films include a fantasy short film called ''Closer,'' which won Canada's Prism Prize audience award in 2022 and ''Silas,'' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017 and was acquired by Amazon. ''Silas'' profiles activists using smartphones to expose land grabbing and corruption in West Africa and was executive produced by Ed Zwick and Leonardo DiCaprio. Nayar's feature directorial debut, ''Gun Runners'', premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in May 2016 and was acquired by Netflix. The film follows two Kenyan warriors who trade in their AK-47s to pursue marathon running.

Beyond film, Nayar has written and filmed extensively for ''Nature'', Reuters, the CBC News, the BBC, and NPR. Nayar has a Masters in Documentary from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a Masters in Environmental Management from Linacre College, University of Oxford, and a Graduate degree in space science from the International Space University. Nayar founded TIMBY (This Is My Backyard), a suite of digital tools that helps activists report, verify and tell stories safely. Provided by Wikipedia