Sarah Erulkar
Born: 1923-05-02 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]
Died: 2015-05-29
Known For: Directing
Biography
Sarah Erulkar was a documentary film maker who was born on May 2nd 1923 and died on 29 May 2015. Born in Calcutta, India ( now Kolkata) she came to England and studied sociology at the University of London before starting work for the Shell Unit as a documentarist. Here she met her husband, fellow film-maker Peter De Normanville by whom she had two daughters. Her film 'Picture to Post' won a BAFTA award as best short film of 1970 and in 2010, several years after she had retired the BFI showed a retrospective of her work at the South Bank.
Filmography
1983
- Into Another Dimension ... (Director)
1977
- The Living City ... (Director)
1973
- Design in Steel ... (Director)
1971
- The Air My Enemy ... (Writer)
1969
- Picture to Post ... (Director)
1968
- Land of the Red Dragon ... (Director)
1967
- The Hunch ... (Director)
- Something Nice to Eat ... (Director)
1964
- Smoking Machine ... (Director)
1958
- Birthright ... (Director)
1952
- District Nurse ... (Director)
- The History of the Helicopter ... (Director)
1948
- Lord Siva Danced ... (Director)