Dr. Bobby Sarma Baruah is a national and international award-winning Indian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter whose narrative content on socio-cultural issues in Assam and the Northeast India has been highly appreciated.

As a director, producer and scriptwriter, Baruah has a number of short films, documentaries, music videos and TV Serials on various indigenous folk cultures blending into one, to her credit.

Dr. Bobby Sarma Baruah completed her Ph.D. from the Department of Mass communication and Journalism, Guwahati University on the topic "Reflection of the folk culture of Assam in Assamese cinema".

She completed her PhD from the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Guwahati University, on the topic "Reflection of the folk culture of Assam in Assamese cinema".

She won a senior national fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India in 2014 for a research project on ethnic jewellery and costumes of North East.

She directed a popular T V serial for Doordarshan named JivanJatra, various short films like Waiting for a Call, Deuta and Mirror, a thirteen-episode documentary on folk culture of different ethnic communities of Assam.

In 2016, she made her second feature film as a director, co-producer and scriptwriter for Sonar Baran Pakhi (The Golden Wing) based on a legendary folk singer, Sahitya Academy Awardee, Padma Shri, Pratima Baruah Pandey.

In 2018, she made her third feature film as a director, co-producer and scriptwriter for Mishing (The Apparition) based on a novel written by Sahitya Academy and Padma Shri awardee Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi.