Bina Bhattacharya is an award-winning Writer and Director living in Campbelltown. Her father is a Bengali Indian Professor of Political Economy and her mother is a white Australian Historian born in Adelaide.

Bina credits her distinctive voice and sensitivity to growing up with two cultures, being exposed to Satyajit Ray and 80s Bollywood through her father and opera and Australian folk music through her mother. Her short films “Wild Dances” and “Musings” have resonated with audiences in festivals all over the world, with themes of diaspora, queer identity, motherhood, alternative lifestyles, regional identities and class and race tensions.

Bina runs her own production company, Gemme de la Femme Pictures, with her also-mixed-race husband and is the mother of a “Fil-Indian-Scots-Stralian” four-year-old boy.