Kabir naik
Communications Professional | Documentary Filmmaker
I am a communications professional & documentary filmmaker with eight years of experience translating social and policy issues into campaigns, films, and multimedia outputs that reach global audiences and the communities most affected by them.I approach communication not as a medium but as a method, a practice that begins with research, listens to the community it serves, and then finds the form that fits, whether that is a feature documentary, a policy recommendation tool, a hand stitched zine, or a three-part video series for international policymakers.
Felix Scholar · SOAS, University of London · 2025–26
Communications Fellow · Club of Rome · 2024
75 Creative Minds · National Film Development Corporation of India · 2023
DocCommune Fellow · Public Service Broadcasting Trust · 2022–23
The Practice
What follows is a selection of work across formats, organisations, and geographies. The projects look different from one another because they were built for different contexts and different audiences. But the underlying method is the same throughout: begin with research, design for the specific audience, and let the form be determined by what the situation requires rather than by habit or convention.
Khanvte · Feature Documentary
A feature-length documentary investigating Goa's ancient Khazan water management systems, the communities whose livelihoods depend on them, and the policy failures threatening their survival. The film was built on months of field research across coastal Goa, interviewing environmental scientists, heritage conservationists, and local communities. Cited in policy discussions on heritage conservation.
Policy Recommendations · Sunny Side South
A multimedia policy tool designed bottom-up: built from months of fieldwork with Goan rice farmers and Fr. George Quadros, translating ground-level expertise into evidence-based recommendations for policymakers and institutions. The tool contributed to soft commitments in state agricultural policy and improved remuneration frameworks. Part of a wider last-mile communication series that reached 2,000+ farmers.
10 Years of Hope · Zine
A hand-designed, hand-stitched zine documenting ten global social movements from the past decade, from South Korea's Candlelight Protests to Kenya's Anti-Finance Bill movement to India's farmers' protest. Inspired by Vamandada Kardak's Marathi Ambedkarite song Toofanatale Dive Aamhi, the zine was designed as a pocket sized archive of collective action: evidence that people come together, and that when they do, the world responds. Printed, stitched with red thread, and distributed by hand.
When the Blue Moon Shines · Documentary
A feature documentary following Ashutosh Vidrohi, a Dalit student activist and leader of the Ambedkar Students' Association through a Delhi University election campaign. A film about caste, democracy, and what it costs to fight for representation inside institutions built to exclude. Distributed freely across universities and movement spaces rather than through festival circuits.
Project Urba · Media Literacy Initiative
Free mobile filmmaking courses developed and delivered in Hindi, Bengali, and Gujarati, building media production capacity in communities with limited access to professional training. The curriculum was designed to shift narrative power: rather than documenting communities from outside, equipping community members to document their own stories with the tools they already have.
Let's Connect
If any of this resonates with what you are working on or trying to build, I would genuinely welcome a conversation. I am interested in work that takes communication seriously as a practice, whether that means designing a campaign, producing a documentary, building tools for communities who need them, or thinking together about how complex ideas reach the people they need to reach.