Camilla Nielsson was a Fulbright Scholar at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (NYU), and in the Dept. of Anthropology (NYU), where she studied documentary filmmaking and visual anthropology from 1997-2000. She has directed the documentary short trilogy Good Morning Afghanistan (2003), Durga (2004), and The Children of Darfur (2005), and Mumbai Disconnected (2009), in the Cities on Speed-series. Camilla Nielsson’s first feature documentary Democrats (2014), has screened at more than 90 film festivals, and won 25 awards and nominations.