Sarah Erulkar

Sarah Erulkar (2 May 1923 – 29 May 2015) was a prolific and multi-award-winning Indian-born Jewish British filmmaker, specialising in sponsored documentary shorts.

[1] Her father was a barrister who was blacklisted for defending Mahatma Gandhi and Mohammed Ali Jinnah.

Next she directed Lord Siva Danced (1947), which featured celebrated Indian dancer and choreographer Ram Gopal, and was well received in both India and Britain.

[4] Erulkar was forced to leave Shell in 1952 after marrying fellow SFU filmmaker, Peter de Normanville.

[5] She would work as a free-lancer for the rest of her long career, first, as an editor at the National Coal Board Film Unit before resuming directing for numerous sponsors, including the British Productivity Council, the Central Office of Information (COI), the Gas Council and the General Post Office (GPO).