Sarah Erulkar
- Directing
- May 2, 1923 · Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]
- May 29, 2015
Biography
Sarah Erulkar was a documentary film maker who was born on May 2nd 1923 and died on 29 May 2015. Born in Calcutta, India ( now Kolkata) she came to England and studied sociology at the University of London before starting work for the Shell Unit as a documentarist. Here she met her husband, fellow film-maker Peter De Normanville by whom she had two daughters. Her film 'Picture to Post' won a BAFTA award as best short film of 1970 and in 2010, several years after she had retired the BFI showed a retrospective of her work at the South Bank.
Known for
Filmography
- Into Another Dimension · Director
- The Living City · Director
- Design in Steel · Director
- The Air My Enemy · Writer, Director
- Picture to Post · Director, Writer
- Land of the Red Dragon · Director
- The Hunch · Director
- Something Nice to Eat · Director
- Smoking Machine · Director
- Birthright · Director, Writer
- The History of the Helicopter · Director
- District Nurse · Director
- Lord Siva Danced · Director, Writer
- Dying Of Thirst · Director