Munmun Dhalaria is a documentary filmmaker from Dharamshala, currently based in Bangalore India. She is known for making documentaries on wildlife conservation, gender and human rights. Her films have been broadcast on networks like National Geographic, Hotstar and Vice World News. Since 2017, Dhalaria has been associated with the National Geographic Society as a National Geographic Explorer. Her photographs have been published internationally in various scientific journals and magazines like National Geographic Magazine. She has also worked as an assistant producer in Bristol, UK with Wildstar films, working for Emmy awarded shows like ‘Queens’, ‘Animals up close with Bertie Gregory’, and Disney’s ‘Tigers on the Rise’. She is also a Hatha Yoga teacher.
Early life and education Munmun is the daughter of (retd.) Gp. Capt. Jagdish Chand Dhalaria, officer with the Indian Air Force. She belongs to a small hamlet called Gahra in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh in Western Himalaya. Her mother Manjula Dhalaria belongs to Hamirpur district and primarily grew up in Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh. She grew up with one sibling- her elder brother Rishabh Dhalaria, who is a manager at Bank of Baroda.
She studied in several Air Force schools and Kendriya Vidyalayas at different places in India owing to her fathers’ job. During her high school at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Yelahanka, Bangalore she was selected for AFS foreign exchange program in Massachusetts, US, which involved in radio telemetry research on coy apart from her other high school activities. Dhalaria has done her bachelor's degree in mass media and mass communication from Delhi University and MA in media and cultural studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, She has also done her Basic Mountaineering Course with the Indian Army.
Filmography +YearTitleRoleGenreNotesRef2026In The Heart Of The TideDirectorDocumentary for Aga Khan Development Network2025Guardians: Snow Leopard Of The HimalayasDirectorDocumentary2024Hungry For Love ~ Simranpreet’s StoryDirectorDocumentarySeeing Red ~ Saving Red PandasDirectorDocumentary for Aga Khan Development Network Broadcast on Al Jazeera2022Heroin In The HimalayasDirectorDocumentary for Vice MediaWritten Out Of HistoryDirectorDocumentary2021No Water No Village (Chhu Med Na Yul)DirectorDocumentaryInternational Film Festival of India, 2022 Alt Eff Film FestivalTenzin TsundueDirectorNews Documentary for ViceInside The Opioid Crisis Gripping This Himalayan State | Trouble in ParadiseDirector, editorDocumentaryWritten out of History- Forgotten Indian ScientistsDirector, DOPDocumentary SeriesLadakh PashminaDirectorDocumentary for Nature Conservation Foundation2020Jujurana's KingdomDirector Documentary for National GeographicIMF Mountain Film Festival BANFF Mountain Film and Book Festival, 2020.On the Brink, season 2Assistant director, CameraTV series for HotstarCovid Response ~ A Himalayan StoryDirectorDocumentary for National GeographicLiberation Docfest Bangladesh 2021 Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 20212017Tayiya KanasuDirector, CameraDocumentaryBest Documentary at the 6th Aarogya Film Festival Health Systems research global symposium 2018, Liverpool, UK
Honorable mention, Public Health Film Festival, Oxford
India Heritage walks Film festivalAn Uncertain WinterDirector Documentary for SPS Community Media / PSBTWinner of ICIMOD Mountain film Award at KIMFF, Kathmandu, Nepal IMF mountain film festival, New Delhi
Pakistan International Mountain Film Festival
CMS Vatavaran Film festival, New Delhi
Kathmandu International Film Festival2016Raag Aur Bhraag (Music And Leopards)2014Padmini My love (Padmini meri jaan)2013Mahatma Phule Vyayam Shala
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