Sanjay Kak

Sanjay Kak (born 1958) is an Indian author, activist and self-taught film-maker.

Kak was born into a family of Kashmiri Pandits, based in New Delhi for several generations.

He is a self-taught film-maker who is actively involved in the documentary film movement and in the Campaign against Censorship and the Cinema of Resistance project.

One Weapon (1997) followed, "the documentary that marked Sanjay Kak as an explicitly political filmmaker", according to The Caravan magazine, and In the Forest Hangs a Bridge (1999) about the making of a bridge in Northeast India; winner of the Golden Lotus Best Documentary Film, National Film Awards; Asian Gaze Award, Pusan Short Film Festival, Korea.

His latest feature-length documentary is on the revolutionary Maoist movement in India, called Red Ant Dream.