Festival, Italy, for Little Zizou 2009 : Audience Choice Award at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, (IFFLA) for Little Zizou 2014: Padma Shri by Government of India ) 2020: Filmfare nomination for Best Film Web Original, for Yeh Ballet Memberships Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2017–present) Writers Guild of America (1989–present) References External links Biography: Official Website Trailer of upcoming documentary on Taraporevala SAWNET biography http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/10/30/sooni-taraporevala-parsis-zizou/ at The Harvard Crimson https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/719511 at THE MET https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/VcDlKlKfiCz3SFxHE6TBrM/Sooni-Taraporevala-To-Bombay-with-love.html at Mint http://www.gallerychemould.com/exhibitions/sooni-taraporevala-bombay-mumbai-black-white-photographs/ https://thewire.in/culture/bombay-mumbai-seen-sooni-taraporewalas-sharp-eye at THE WIRE Misc.: NPR radio feature at Npr Iranian.com feature St Louis Post-Dispatch- NYTimes wire story 1957 births Living people Indian women screenwriters Indian women photographers Parsi people from Mumbai Indian women film directors Screenwriters from Mumbai Harvard University alumni Tisch School of the Arts alumni Social documentary photographers Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts Gujarati-language film directors 20th-century Indian photographers 21st-century Indian photographers Indian photojournalists Indian movie stills photographers 21st-century Indian women writers 21st-century Indian writers 21st-century Indian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Indian women artists 20th-century Indian women writers 20th-century Indian writers 20th-century Indian women artists 20th-century Indian film directors Indian portrait photographers Women writers from Maharashtra Women artists from Maharashtra Film directors from Mumbai Photographers from Maharashtra Directors who won the Best Film on Family Welfare National Film Award 20th-century women photographers 21st-century women photographers Women photojournalists