British-Indian filmmaker Pratibha Parmar was BOTD in 1954. Born in Nairobi to Indian parents, her family emigrated to London when she was a child. She studied at Bradford and Birmingham Universities, and played electric bass guitar in a rock band. She came to public attention with two 1991 documentaries made for British television: Khush, exploring the lives of LGBTQ people in India and UK Indian communities, and A Place of Rage, a history of the Black civil rights movement featuring interviews with Angela Davis, Alice Walker and Trinh T. Minh-ha. Parmar and Walker collaborated again on Warrior Marks, a documentary about female genital mutilation, and the biographical portrait Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth. She made her narrative feature debut with 2006’s Nina’s Heavenly Delights, a cross-cultural lesbian rom-com. In recent years, she directed episodes of Law and Order and the Oprah Winfrey-produced series Queen Sugar. Her most recent documentary, My Name is Andrea, a profile of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin, was released in 2022. Parmar lives in California with her partner Shaheen Haq, with whom she runs their film production company Kali Films.