Alisha Bhowmik is a multi-racial, multi-hyphenate artist from Arkansas based in Brooklyn, New York. She’s a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in acting in conjunction with the Atlantic Acting School. She produced the feature film Blow Up My Life, which won Best Film at Harlem International Film Festival and had a limited AMC theatrical run in fall 2023. Alisha has produced and/or directed short films and music videos that have been awarded a Vimeo Staff Pick and NoBudge Best of the Year 2022 and have been featured in Huffington Post, Refinery29, NYLON and PAPER magazine. Her short documentary Dot & a Feather was the first Sundance Collab Challenge winner. Alisha currently works as a film producer at acclaimed advertising agency Droga5 (clients: Essentia, Chase Bank, AdCouncil, Atlassian).

Untitled Calcutta Film — After her father abruptly passes away, Aarya, a mixed-race American millennial, must go to Calcutta, India, for the first time to finish her dad’s task of selling her grandparents’ house. Not knowing the language or the culture in Calcutta, Aarya must deal with her father’s death while also figuring out her own next steps in life.