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Jasmine Dellal is an award-winning independent film director and producer. Her feature documentaries show in cinemas, festivals and TV around the world. Dellal grew up in Great Britain, studied at Oxford, then in the US and still spends much time in South India where her grandparents lived near Arunachala mountain in Tiruvannamalai. In 1993, Dellal completed a Master's degree in Journalism at the UC Berkeley, where she studied under her mentor - the acclaimed documentarian Marlon Riggs. In the 1990s, while based in San Francisco, Dellal founded Little Dust Productions, to make documentaries and artistic films with a social conscience. She has since moved to New York and London. She is particularly recognized for her work with Roma ("Gypsy") people.