Jyoti Mistry (born 1970) is a South African film director, installation artist, teacher and scholar of Indian ancestry.

[1] Her films explore the complexity of racial identity, multiculturalism and gender in modern South Africa through a decolonised lens.

[5] Mistry has been artist in residence at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, US; and the Sune Jonsson Centre for documentary photography at the Västerbottens Museum, Sweden.

Her works have featured in international exhibitions and galleries including in the AFROPOLIS exhibition, Cologne, Germany;[6] at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Germany; at the Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria; and at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.

[9] She has also written on the politics and economics of "Nollywood"[10] and co-edited with Antje Schuhmann the collection of essays Gaze Regimes: Film and Feminisms in Africa (2015).