Nishi Dugar is a filmmaker and cinematographer from Jaipur, India. She studied Cinematography at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Multimedia from Saint Xavier's College, Kolkata.

She grew up in Calcutta and Jaipur. During her teen years, she started experimenting in photography and cinematography came as a natural progression. She is also a member of the Indian Women Cinematographer’s Collective and has worked on numerous projects as a second unit cinematographer and camera operator.

Nishi always wanted to tell her own stories too - about the intimate, the tacit fragments of human relationships. Anaar Daana, is her first short film- for which she chose to go back to her roots in Rajasthan. Anaar Daana had its world premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in the Generation Kplus Competition.