Abhi Indrekar | filmmaker & editor
Boston based
Abhi is a filmmaker and documentary editor raised in the traditions of street theatre and community-based art in India. He is a recipient of the prestigious Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship for 2024-2025. He first trained under some of India’s most respected and daring socio-political filmmakers, such as Dakxin Chhara and Anand Patwardhan, working on documentary and fiction films, as well as video reportage. Abhi received a master’s in Film and TV from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, GA and is currently based between Boston and Western, MA.
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Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow 2024-2025
Selected Editing Credits
2023
Assistant Editor: Broken Gods, dir. Dakxin Chhara & Alice Tilche
2024
Editor, Minnesota’s Alt Meat Revolution, PBS/WORLD Channel
Additional Camera and Assistant Editor, REASON, dir. Anand Patwardhan
2018
Lead Assistant Editor, Turning Point: Battleground Georgia, dir. Daresha Kyi, MSNBC Films
2020
2024
Assistant Editor, Black Voters Matter, dir. Daresha Kyi
Editing Reel
Includes documentary, fiction, and commercial work.
Skills
Editing, Cinematography, Color-grading, Director
Abhi is skilled with assisting editing as well as editing short/long form documentaries and narratives. Editing software includes Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer. He is experienced in using various production cameras including BlackMagic, RED, Arri Alexa, Sony, Canon Cinema style cameras. Abhi is experienced in various filming environments including hostile environments, large professional productions (Bollywood feature), small crew, and no crew.
Artistic Approach
Documentary & Fiction Film
— “For me, documentation comes first.”
Abhi’s personal work deals with socio-political documentation in India and the US. He believes in process-driven filmmaking. His approach is very simple: when documentation comes first, the story organically emerges. In this way, Abhi strives for his films to always be collaborations with the people who are featured on camera. He seeks to document people’s stories, their struggles as well as their resilience and joy.
Collaborations
Selected Recent & Upcoming Projects
Collaborators: L’Merchie Frazier & The City of Boston; The Loop Lab Inc, Cambridge; Boston poet, Ashley Rose; LISC; Freedom Fighters Coalition; Dorchester Art Project; Boston artist, Laurence Pierce; Racial, Equity & Justice forum, Hyde Park; National Centre of Afro-American Artists Inc, Boston; Silkroad, Boston; MPDC; MIT; Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
Upcoming project: Painting the Back of the Hill - a feature documentary about Black artists in the country’s second most gentrified city.
Cinematography showreel 2019
India