Sarah Erulkar
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 2, 1923
- Place of birth
- Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]
- Died
- May 29, 2015
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.
Movies directed by Sarah Erulkar
- The History of the Helicopter 1952 · ★ 6.0
- Picture to Post 1969 · ★ 7.0
- The Hunch 1967 · ★ 10.0
- The Living City 1977
- Smoking Machine 1964
- Birthright 1958
- Into Another Dimension 1983
- District Nurse 1952
- Design in Steel 1973
- Lord Siva Danced 1948
- The Air My Enemy 1971
- Something Nice to Eat 1967
- Land of the Red Dragon 1968