The Producers

Jasmine Dellal - Director

Jasmine Dellal founded Little Dust Productions in the 1990s to make artistic films with a social conscience. She’s involved in all aspects of indie film – creation to distribution and extensive social outreach. Dellal enjoys producing & consulting (from mentoring novices to working with Oscar-winners/nominees such as Roko Belic, Genghis Blues; Marco Williams; Sam Green, Utopia in Four Movements, etc). Her slate leans towards strong personal tales, ‘outsider’ cultures, music and the environment. Today she’s making a film about the passionate founders of a socially progressive forest school in South India.

Dellal directed, wrote, produced & edited her first award-winning feature documentary, AMERICAN GYPSY: a stranger in everybody’s land (arthouse theatrical release; international festivals; season’s highest ratings on PBS’s prestigious POV series). Her second feature, GYPSY CARAVAN: When The Road Bends... (backed by ITVS & Fortissimo Films) screened at over 100 festivals worldwide, won awards, showed on TV & theatrically. These became seminal works about Roma and cultural pluralism – she is also executive producer of the first documentary by a Romani American.

Dellal grew up in England and was greatly influenced by childhood trips to family in south India. At Oxford University, she read French & Spanish. At the University of California at Berkeley, she did a Masters and was honoured to work with the acclaimed Marlon Riggs on his final film BLACK IS… BLACK AIN’T. Dellal also won a student Emmy Award and co-directed a short about strong women dissociating themselves from feminism.